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Five years from now, this post will appear in a sideblog with posts from five years ago

twoleftfeet — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:56:44 -0800

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google talks about what the web will look like in five years. The internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content... content will move towards more video... today's teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years.

Google Asks: "What Would Email Look Like, If It Were Invented Today?"

zarq — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:45:13 -0800

Google began inviting volunteers to a public preview test of their new Wave web-based collaborative email and document communications platform yesterday, which enables users to "communicate and work together in real time." Initial reviews this past May seemed positive. (Previously) Features include real-time collaboration, (including concurrent editing and control of each "wave" thread,) natural language tools and a variety of APIs which users can use to embed content in other sites. Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 (80min video -- an abridged 10 minute version is here. Wave login page is here. Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open source project for developers. The WSJ reports that invites are now for sale on EBay. Something similar happened when Google launched GMail in 2004.

Helveticise your web experience

acb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:19:04 -0800

Love Helvetica and modernist typographic design? Seen the film? Now, with the power of browser userscripts, you can have the 20th-century high-modernist experience in your favourite web applications. Scripts exist to Helveticise Gmail, Twitter and Google Reader, and work with a variety of modern browsers. Of course, you'll need to provide your own copy of Helvetica; Arial is not quite the same.

A front pages post

fatllama — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:54:33 -0800

Google Fast Flip: Newspaper Stand 2.0

Google's Knol

Soup — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:20:44 -0800

Google takes on Wikipedia with Knol. The web re sponds. Invite only, of course.

Access Denied

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:17:11 -0800

In the same spirit as the Open Net Initiative and Committee to Protect Bloggers that both track global internet filtering, Sami ben Gharbia's Access Denied Map tries to track the blocking of sites like Blogger, Flickr, YouTube and others by governments, as well as efforts by activists to keep them accessible or to challenge their blockage.

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.

redefining the zeitgeist or something!

blacklite — Wed, 10 May 2006 18:03:29 -0800

Google Trends is really cool. Yes, it's yet another google project, but you can compare so much pointless stuff with it!

Google: Web Authoring Statistics from 10^9 pages.

signal — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:48:19 -0800

Web Authoring Statistics from Google. An analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata.

Google Zeitgeist 2005

Mwongozi — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:50:32 -0800

Google Zeitgeist 2005
World Affairs Nature Movies Celebrities Phenomena

Slow Mosaic

sjvilla79 — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:45:50 -0800

Slow Mosaic is a mosaic generator powered by the Web. Feed it a word and watch it create related mosaics in front of your very eyes. Requires Flash. [MI]

All your semantic web are belong to google

MetaMonkey — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:20:41 -0800

All your semantic web are belong to google? The implications of Google Base on the fabled semantic web.

A Wikipedia/Google Maps mashup

Tlogmer — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:32:28 -0800

Placeopedia combines Wikipedia and Google Maps.

Can't Find On Google . Com

RonZ — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:46:26 -0800

Can't Find On Google . Com While many people seem to think that Google can find anything (and knows everything), experienced web surfers know the results are often a bit lacking. So this site allows you to post what you are really looking for and what you punched in to the "Big G" to try to find it. The owner claims to know someone who works at Google that is "always interested in what people can't find on Google" - doubtful IMHO if they will really change anything based on this site. But semi-interesting stuff that highlights the inadaquacy of search engine technology.

Pupna Fetch Engine

Metauser — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:40:01 -0800

Pupna is "the search engine puppy that retrieves EXACTLY what you are searching for (and absolutely nothing else!)" ;-)

This is a simple yet rather humorous search engine parody - are there any other good ones out there?

Winer slams new Google toolbar feature

mediareport — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:48:38 -0800

Dave Winer slams the new Google Toolbar Autolink feature as "poorly thought out" adware that unilaterally raises "serious integrity issues" for the Web. Southern Rants adds this pointed critique: "The most important point Winer makes is that it's not about technology. It's about making a HUGE change on the Web, our new social nexus, without discussion. See, he and I are old enough to remember when no one would do such a thing without taking it to ISOC or some such org. It needs discussion. It needs consideration. That's what Google doesn't understand." [via Ed Cone]

Search Wars

Mwongozi — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:34:27 -0800

Search Wars The BBC reviews five search engines, including Google and the new MSN beta

Mining the Deep Web

badstone — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:56:00 -0800

Mining the Deep Web. Google indexes 4 billion pages, but there are hundreds of billions of documents out there in the Deep Web that are effectively unreachable by search engines because they are locked in databases or are unsearchable media. It looks like Yahoo is going to start giving us a peek by providing unified access to a wide variety of sites that are ordinarily only searchable by their own custom search engines.

Strange Searches

walrus — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:14:18 -0800

Bananaslug is a serendipitous search engine. It uses the google API to mix your search term with a random seed and returns results that are probably orthogonal to what you were looking for. Minutes of fun.