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The State of Wikipedia

Frank Gruber has a good spin on The State of Wikipedia, which was put out by JESS3. How does Wikipedia impact search? In a huge way. You can see WIkipedia show up in any generic search on Google, such as “love” or “hate” or “war,” you will see Wikipedia. Incoming search terms:Powered by Article Dashboard [...]

Google Celebrates Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (pronounced /ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, [...]

Google Celebrates Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. According to Wikipedia, Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997)[1] was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, [...]

History of the Bar Code

Google is celebrating the history of the bar code today. Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia about the history of the bar code. In 1948 Bernard Silver (1924–62), a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research a system to [...]

Android Lead Developer Leaves Google for Coupons Inc.

The lead developer of the Android platform for Google, is said to have left Google to be the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Coupons Inc. Steve Horowitz, age 41, was with Google for three years as he led the Google Android team; seeing the project through all the way up until launch time with [...]

Google’s Quick Search Box on Mac

Google is readying its Mac apps to gain some more market share with OS X users. This time, they are targeting a few well known apps, such as Quicksilver. Google has created their own Quick Search Box (QSB). But, the kicker is that it’s open source. Want to download the code and launch your own [...]

Accepting Outrageous Claims as Truth

This short excerpt from American Dad states exactly how I feel Wikipedia turned out as it is today. Google Inside claims no copyright to the above video I will repeat that Google has too much love for Wikipedia, despite what people say or think about it.

Keyword Search on Facebook

By now, everyone should know what Facebook is. If you don’t, welcome to 2008. http://www.facebook.com/ That aside, Facebook is becoming a larger and larger player in the online industry for social networking and community. By nature, whenever you get a database or website with the mass amount of users that Facebook or MySpace has, search [...]

Google CalDAV Coming….Soon?

We can see that Google CalDAV dates back to as early as six months ago. So where do we stand right now? The same place we stood six months ago. Waiting. Well, if you’re not familiar with what CalDAV is, it’s basically a way to “mount” your calendar around the web. According to Wikipedia, it [...]

Google’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Web”

Google recently published their own “hitchhiker’s guide to the web,” more commonly known to the public as the Google Doctype. In short, Google Doctype is a guide for everyone (including Google), on how to go about using and creating the web. I say, “creating the web,” because in essence, that’s what we do everyday. That’s [...]

Happy Cinco de Mayo from Google Inside

A happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone! You can read more about the Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May, translated to English) at Wikipedia. Incoming search terms:cinco de mayo google picture

Google Celebrates Alexander Graham Bell

Spam, Spam, Go Away — and Never Come Back!

A deep and well-discussed topic has been coming up more and more lately. Comment spam. The item of comment spamming is becoming more and more of an issue. The real problem that is occurring though, is that real people are doing the spamming. Real people, sitting at real computers, spamming real websites. About a month [...]

Google’s Love-Hate Wikipedia Relationship

Google has shown over time, a lot of love to Wikipedia. Giving Wikipedia top SERP positions on just about every term. Michael Gray writes on the latest of whether this kind of “love” is truly justified. I agree with his standpoint. So what’s really going on? The love/hate relationship going on is knol. Google is [...]

Google to Compete with Wikipedia

Google announced last week that it is creating a competitor to Wikipedia. Here is a small excerpt from the VP of engineering, The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names highlighted. We believe that