Google Finds Someone To Talk To Ad Agencies - Flock. The Google Dashboard Or “Just How Much Google Knows” – SoftSailo. Google puts thousands of ancient artefacts from Iraq museum onli. By Mail Foreign Service Updated: 10:01 GMT, 25 November 2009 The internet search giant Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artefacts at Iraq's National Museum online.
Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt said the company had taken 14,000 photographs of the antiquities and aims to put them on the web early next year. The museum holds artefacts from the Stone Age through to the Islamic caliphates. It was looted in the chaotic days after the American-led invasion of 2003, but was reopened earlier this year. A man looks up at an Assyrian relief sculpture inside Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad Millennia-old Assyrian relief sculptures What is now modern-day Iraq was once known as Mesopotamia, a region considered by many as the 'cradle of civilisation'. But its millennia-old artefacts from Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian cultures, as well as Iraq's more recent history, have been largely closed to public view due to security concerns and for renovation. Google.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - Flock.
A ghooooulish Googleween - Flock. When it comes to holidays, Halloween is one of our favorites. You get candy corn, creepy crawlies, ghosts and goblins, blustery weather and the goopy joys of pumpkin carving all crammed into one glorious fall fun-fest. It's also the one holiday where you can dress up as whatever you want — your favorite celebrity, your favorite animal or even, like one Googler last year, your favorite gadget. As usual, we're in the process of devising brilliant last-minute costumes, and we got curious about what others around the globe have been searching for in preparation for Halloween.
We used Insights for Search to track the fastest-rising searches related to [costume] in the U.S. in 2009. And many people seem to be planning a tribute to the late pop star Michael Jackson — searches for [michael jackson costume] started spiking in June of this year and have increased steadily since then: Thinking of dressing up your little ones? We hope you have a happy Googleween! Climate Change Tours by Google - Flock. Close followers of this blog may have spotted that my favourite application of Google Earth and the GeoWeb more generally is advocating action on climate change. So I'm excited to see that Google (and it seems to be my friends in Google Outreach) have released a series of tours to publicise the Copenhagen talks on climate change.
I've pasted in the introductory video above. They first published the site just as tours in the Google Earth plugin. However, I notice that they have now changed the web page to show YouTube videos of the GEarth tours with links to view the tours in Google Earth. I guess that this was because they looked at the hit logs and discovered a significant proportion of hits were from people who didn't have the Google Earth plugin and that these people then left rather than wait to download it and view the tours.
Whether this is the case or not I thought it worth discussing the pros and cons of publishing a Google Earth tour as a video rather than within Google Earth. Paul's Ponderings - 10 Awesomely Strange Google Trends - Flock. 10 Awesomely Strange Google Trends - 5/4/09In case you live in a cave, Google Trends is a tool that charts how often something Here are 10 Google Trend phenomena that I found awesomenly inexplicable. 1. Anal Fisting My friend Brian showed me this, inspiring this post. Every year a spike? 3. I don't even know what this is. 4. Curiously, closely following the spike in searches for "IPhone". 5. This one makes sense. 6.
Coincidence...? 7. ...I think NOT! 8. Off the hilarious Sparkling Wiggles video. 9. You don't want to know what this is. 10. Again, I don't even know what this is. Gmail Users Are More Social Network Friendly | Search Engine Jou. There’s an interesting findings discovered by research company Rapleaf which made a study of around 120,000 webmail accounts from users of various webmail client including aol, gmail, hotmail and yahoo. According to the report, while Gmail users are more connected and have more friends on a social network, other webmail users however maintain more social networking profiles.
The Rapleaf study looked into the age, gender and social networking data of the sample population. Not quite surprisingly, the study revealed that Facebook is the most popular social network among webmail users. Surprisingly, MySpace manage to retain some popularity especially among Hotmail users despite its dwindling popularity among the general users. Twitter was also found to be popular among Gmail users, but not as popular in other social networks. The most significant findings of the study is of course on user participation in social networks. Inside Google's Advertising Empire - PC World - Flock. Google 's gobbling up another advertising company, the search giant has announced.
Google will acquire Teracent, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in "intelligent display advertising. " Yep -- that means more online ads customized specifically for your visit. Teracent, of course, is far from Google's first foray into the online advertising world; as most people who use the Web can't help but know, Google-served ads are practically everywhere these days. Teracent: Google's Display-Advertising Acquisition Reading the way Google describes Teracent, it's not hard to understand how it'll fit into the company's advertising ecosystem. "Teracent's technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time -- tweaking images, products, messages or colors," Google's official blog posting explains.
Teracent's technology is expected to become available to advertisers using Google's Content Network and DoubleClick program. Google's Past Ad Acquisitions. Web Owls » Blog Archive » Google as predicted in 1964 - Flock. I do enjoy looking at old predictions of the future. Eventually, the future arrives and we can compare it with the predictions. Sometimes, the predictions are better than the reality. Sometimes, reality outpaces not only the predictions but even the dreams of the past. And sometimes, the predictions end up being pretty-much spot on. That’s the case with a piece about the “answer machine” of the future, which appeared in the book Childcraft Volume 6: How Things Change, published by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation in 1964. Here’s how it starts: I think Google can handle that: What else can our Answer Machine do for us? A single click from Google’s first result shows us this picture: Yep, “File | Print” does the job nicely.
The original “Mary Had A Little Lamb” recording was not kept, but we can listen to Edison re-enacting it or to an 1899 recording made on Edison’s 1878 tinfoil phonograph. Someday? Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Flock. American multinational technology company Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's internet properties and interests.
Google's other ventures outside of Internet services and consumer electronics include quantum computing (Sycamore), self-driving cars (Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project), smart cities (Sidewalk Labs), and transformer models (Google Deepmind).[17] Google and YouTube are the two most visited websites worldwide followed by Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter). History Notes. Creepy Gmail - Flock. Official Google Reader Blog - Flock. Google - Interactive Features - Portfolio.com - Flock. Google Picasa Scares the S#%t Out of Me : All My Faves | Blog - Posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 by Roy Pessis At the moment of writing this, Google Chrome is all the hype around the net.
Though, at the same day that Google Chrome launched, Google also launched a new version of their popular Picasa and PicasaWebAlbums. Which is considered as one of the top destination for image uploading on the Internet. I don’t believe that the launch of this two services together happened by a chance. Google knew that all the hype will be around the new Google browser. First, I would like to introduce you to the new service. Google Picasa is different. (Click image to enlarge) So what scares me… You’re asking? Did you ever stop and think what will happen if Google will find a way to show us ads on our daily routine.
I think that the day which Google will shows us ads on the streets is closer than we think. What will happen when Google will have all the information about us? When Gmail started reading our mail and showing us relevant ads. Google, photos. Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information," announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index. CEO Eric Schmidt speaks at Google's California headquarters (below). "Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices.
"Soon, it will be. " The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which catalogs the entire surface of the Earth using high-resolution satellites. As a part of Purge's first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google. "A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Co-founders Page and Brin dismiss their critics. Google Offices (Googleplex) Around The World [Photos] | Inspirat. Mountain View California, US New York, US New York office is Google’s largest software engineering center outside of headquarter Mountain View.
According to GoogleSystem: Google opened their new NY offices 5 months ago (from Feb 2007) and already has around 500 employees who work on print ads, Google Finance, Google Spreadsheets, Checkout and more. Read more at Google System. Santa Monica Arizona, US One of the largest development centers in the United States, where engineers work on some of Google’s hardest problems, in realms such as Search Quality, YouTube, Ads, Video and Photos. Chicago, US Moscow, Russia Birthplace of co-founder Sergey Brin, Google Moscow is a research and development office. Wii Golf at the Google Moscow office Google Moscow Engineering Open House Zurich, Switzerland The Zurich office is fun, or probably weird. Beijing, China Located near Tsinghua University, Google Beijing too has a mountain view like the US headquarter.
Credit: Gaoyuan Taipei, Taiwan Amsterdam, Netherland. 10 Ways Google is More Social Than You Think - Flock. Written by: Brian Wallace on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Posted to: Blogger,FeedBurner,Google,Jaiku,OpenSocial,Orkut,Toolbar,YouTube 9 comments, add yours! Although you often hear me pandering on the likes of the Digg, StumbleUpon and Mixx communities, I’ve decided to post regularly here at Google Tutor to talk about Google’s role in social media. How can a company such as Google sit idly by while other social media sites take off? Easy. They aren’t. Robert Scoble had an interesting piece on Google, revealing that Google’s most sticky (time spent on) site is Orkut. Over the next several posts, I’ll be covering each of these pieces of Google’s stake in social media in greater detail.So, let’s review: Blog platform? Social network? Microblogging? RSS? RSS Feed Reader? Social Network Open Development Framework?
Real-time Chat? Viral Videos? The only piece that is clearly sticking out is Social News. Skype vs Google Talk | Welcome to Openhippo !! - Flock. Is Google Expanding YouTube into a Gaming Site? | Search Engine. Here’s an interesting report speculating that Google might actually be planning to make YouTube as a hosted gaming site. Sometime in February 19, 2009 Google applied for a patent which carries the title – “Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos.”
The patent application which was published earlier this month states that: “the collaborative generation of interactive features for digital videos, and in particular to interactive video annotations enabling control of video playback locations and creations of interactive games.” This seems like somehow games would be built atop videos that are being submitted to hosting sites such as YouTube. So its either games will be created that hop in and out of popular videos or a place where people could upload source videos will be created.
This will allow users to play out multiple video scenes and combine them to create a YouTube hosted online game. So, what do you think, does this makes sense at all? Sergey Brin To Conquer The Final Frontier - Flock. Conquering Earth's domain of online advertising was easy. It's time to expand the horizons and start exploring the next really big market - space. Google's Sergey Brin will not be left behind on this one; he plans to fly to space - as a tourist, for now - in the next couple of years, having dished out $5 million in down payment to Virginia-based company Space Adventures Ltd, claims AP. The company has sent 5 tourists to the international space station since 2001, and they've all come back in one piece, so there's no need for Steve Ballmer to get too excited about this one yet. It's not certain which exact regions of the solar system Brin will visit; Space Adventures has several possibilities in stock, one of them being a $100-million-per-seat trip around the moon.
Our bet is that Brin will wimp out and just take the lame and cheap space-station trip instead. [image credits: AP] Looking Back at Google in 2009 - Flock. Looking Back at Google in 2009 Google is perhaps our decade’s Xerox PARC with a commercial edge, and the speed at which they released products in 2009 was quite immense. This shows they do two things well so far: scaling technology (across different countries and languages, across hundreds of thousands or however many computers), and scaling employee count (nearly twenty-thousand employees and still stuff gets done, from small to big apps).
Google is also getting bolder in their attitude; while their older mission poster used to read that Google should “Think and act like an underdog”, a recent Google writing proclaimed a bit of a different angle: Because of our reach, technical know-how, and lust for big projects, we can take on big challenges that require large investments and lack an obvious, near-term pay-off. We can photograph the world’s streets so that you can explore the neighborhood around an apartment you are considering renting from a thousand miles away.