<?php
//Change the following to your email address
$email = “myemail@something.com”;
if(eregi(“googlebot”,$_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’]))
{
mail($email, “Googlebot detected”,
“Google has crawled : “.$_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]);
}
?>

Perl:

 # give path of sendmail
$mailprog = ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail’;
#Change the following to your email address
$email = myemail@something.com;
$browser = $ENV{’HTTP_USER_AGENT’};
if ($browser =~ m/googlebot/i) {
open (MAIL, “|$mailprog -t”) || die “ERROR: Problem Opening – $mailprog!\n”;
print MAIL “From: $email\n”;
print MAIL “To: $email\n”;
print MAIL “Subject: Googlebot detected\n\n”;
print MAIL “Google has crawled : “.$ENV{’REQUEST_URI’};
close (MAIL);
}

So use at your own risk, and prepare to get spamed.

Ha! It’s Google’s anti robot technology where when you signup for a service, they present you with a few letters and number in picture form and you have to enter them in text form. Of course, only humans will be able to enter the text, therefore, keeping the robots out!

• United States: 1,233 Jobs
• Canada, Caribbean, South America: 67 Jobs
• Asia: 269 Jobs
• Europe, Middle East, and Africa: 388 Jobs

So there is the Google recharged car, well, now they got the panels ready!

Here’s a picture of Google plex, now roofed with solar panels!

“In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the United States. Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1,600 kilowatt project. Panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two newly constructed solar carports at the Googleplex (check out this fly-over video).”

They are going environmentally friendly, which is good, but… are they going to dominate the world?

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

It’s like a game where you and a partner play. When you both enter the same keyword of a picture, Google takes that data and uses it in the image search. What a nice way to get free workers.

“You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn points depending on how specific your label is. You’ll be shown more images until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

For example, this image can be described by the labels: sky (50 points), bird (60 points), soaring (120 points), or frigate bird (150 points).”

The fight was clearly documented. So, no more privacy? It really sucks if google catches you doing weird things.