Google crops up an awful lot. It seems as though a paragraph cannot be written these days without Google doing something benevolent or controversial in the middle of it, so now Google it has it’s own category.
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March 7th, 2005, by Rich, in Google.
Today Google Desktop leaves it’s beta status behind and stands as a fully fledged application. Having used the beta version for several months I’ve found it unquestionably useful. Searching for something on my machine used to be a chore; Google Desktop makes it a breeze. More…
February 8th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth.
It didn’t take Google long to innovate again. Several months ago I wrote about Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, describing how it provides Google with a means of presenting location based information. It appears that this may be the first step that’s required before the fruits of that acquisition can be harvested - enter Google Maps. More…
January 19th, 2005, by Rich, in Google.
In accordance with the announcements made today by Google, MSN, Yahoo et al. my website now supports the “rel=nofollow” directive More…
October 28th, 2004, by Rich, in Advertising, Google, Google Earth.
Google’s purchase of Keyhole (announced yesterday) is, I think, the most significant thing they’ve done of late. Google desktop, gmail, groups, news, blogger, froogle are all sidelines, they are mere content providers compared to this. More…
October 22nd, 2004, by Rich, in Google.
The concept of using Google’s indexing technology on your own machine is an attractive one. The interface is so familiar to most that it’s like second nature, and the idea that you could search for something and see both local and web results combined is novel, and potentially highly beneficial since it is likely that local documents can assist in the formulation of better queries, so the process of relevance feedback is enhanced. More…
September 17th, 2004, by Rich, in Google.
ugg - is a program which can upload messages from a BSD mbox to google groups. it uses the javamail API and the sourceforge mbox project. More…
September 13th, 2004, by Rich, in Google.
you may be interested to discover that it is not possible to have a google group subscribed to a yahoo group. More…
