Kuro5hin has written a cool article on who they think Google may acquire next: Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google’s growing subsidiary menagerie? To help predict, I will first take a look at [...]
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Google Doesn’t Forget
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Privacy
CNN has an interesting article on how long Google hangs on to the stuff they log from you (read indefinately): WASHINGTON (Reuters) — When Google Inc.’s 19 million daily users look up a long-lost classmate, send e-mail or bounce around the Web more quickly with its new Web Accelerator, records of that activity don’t go [...]
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Google Launches Personalized Homepage
May 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Google
Google’s been quite busy these pas few days. After Google Video and Google Web Accelerator, their newest service is Google Personalized Homepage. With this you can personalize your google page with news, stock tickers, the weather etc. RSS Support is soon coming. Once again for Google, this is nicely done. Notice that you can drag [...]
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Google’s Accelerator Breaks Web Apps
May 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Privacy, Security
It seems that my hitherto published worries about Google Web Accelerator are being given some grounds by a recent article published in Eweek: Google’s effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web pages under other users’ logins and breaking Web applications. [...]
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Google Launches Web Accelerator
May 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Google, Internet
Google has just released a new service called Google Web Accelerator. It basically comes down to the following: 1. What is Google Web Accelerator? Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have [...]
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Google Video Beta Online
April 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Google, Movies, News
It’s now possible to upload videos to Googles Video Service. For those of you who have been living in a cave these past few weeks, here’s an excerpt: # What is Google Video? Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Currently, Google Video lets you search a [...]
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Javascript can voodoo with XMLHttpRequest
February 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google, Internet
All in the HEAD has an article on some cool stuff that can be done with XMLHttpRequest. Excerpt: With the advent of Google Suggest it seems that the industry has deemed that client-side XML HTTP is ready for the prime time. The technology is nothing new, of course, and has been part of every server-side [...]
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Google suggest reverse engineered
December 18th, 2004 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google
Some dude named Server Side Guy has reverse engineered googles new Suggest feature. Nicely done! Saves the rest of us a lot of effort Source code can be found here and adescription of how he did it here.
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