Google Blogoscoped Latest search engine news blog articles from Google Blogoscoped. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Google+Blogoscoped.html Google Blogoscoped News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49639 The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said, "Because we asked people what fruit they like best, and most named the Crataan fruit!" The gardener replied, "Emperor, that is excellent thinking! But let me make some suggestions: First, how about we make one of the five trees bear the Muran fruit. Only one out of ten citizens loves it, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:23:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49143 For those of you who've been wondering whether I had turned to stone, fallen into a bottomless pit, or been climbing the Himalaya... no, none of that is true, even though you probably did notice I'm not actively blogging about Google here anymore*! Just now, a new iPad app I've been working on called Color Sound Machine went live, and this - and all the other apps and games at Versus Pad ** - are actually what I am doing while not blogoscoping. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:14:57 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=41685 One of the earliest specialist services provided by Google was reverse phone number lookup. If you used the "phonebook:" or "rphonebook:" operators together with a 10-digit US phone number, Google would show you the owner of that phone number, unless the number was unlisted. Google no longer provides that service. Not surprisingly, there was no press release marking the closure, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:30:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38847 This website would take the top headlines from a tech site for that day - at first just from Reddit (you gotta start somewhere), but later, from other sites too, in aggregated form, similar to Techmeme, but across different topics you can navigate to from the frontpage (entertainment, politics, technology etc.). It would present them in some sort of list of headlines with a link to the discussion source. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:04:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38833 Two groups have a text chat using a web interface, arguing about a certain topic. For Group B to reply to what Group A says, each member of Group A proposes a sentence. Then, each member of Group B quickly votes on which sentence of another member of their group they like best. (You don't have to propose a sentence, and you don't have to vote on one; both proposing a sentence as well as voting on one are time-limited to just a certain amount of seconds, though.) Then, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:39:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38830 If you're using the Google Chrome developer channel (or Firefox 4 Beta) have a look at the new Body Browser to explore a body in 3D. [Via Google OS .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Body Browser | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:21:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38607 MBegin in the forum writes: I ran home for lunch today and was VERY pleasantly surprised to find a Cr-48 Chrome OS Notebook at my doorstep!! -Thanks Google! I took a few quick pics and I'll post more about my experiences later... Feel free to bug MBegin with questions in this post's comments, just in case he finds time to get around answering them! I read that 60,000 of these were manufactured, guess there's more out there if you applied. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:33:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38551 Using open source technologies from Google, could someone create a tablet that would let you add both Chrome Web Store apps/ web apps in general, as well as Android Market place apps, and you as user wouldn't even need to bother much about which comes from where as you'd only see a single merged Store, and apps would all be added to a nice homescreen with icons like on the iPad, and apps would always open full-screen no matter if the app maker made it that way or not, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:01:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38489 Watching evolution is fun, especially when it happens right around you, and happens so fast. A mutation we saw yesterday was a new animal scientists gave the name "Chrome OS Notebook", but it's surrounded by other smart animals of all kinds and shapes. What do they fight for? Their nature are our offices, living rooms, cafes and parks; their food are our individual interests. Computing devices: the more we have, the less we notice them. Sneaky things, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:37:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=37752 If you find Google's Instant Previews feature as useless as I do - you know, those images popping up when you hover over search results, often similarly unwanted (when triggered by a wrong click) as Snap site previews - maybe this User script is for you. I use several machines and browsers, though, so always installing add-ons when Google rolls out something unwanted is suboptimal in the long run (opening links in a new window is something else I don't like, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:10:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=37702 Google's newest Question and Answer service is Google baraza beta , launched on 25 October 2010. Baraza is offered in English and French, although Google's links to the French questions aren't working for me. Baraza operates on a Points basis. You get 20 points for signing up, and 4 points each day you log in. If you are already logged into your Google account, there isn't actually any signup process. Your name and photo from your Google profile are automatically used, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:34:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=37654 [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Taped an iPhone to my remote-controlled car a ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:30:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=37608 Here's a fully playable web demo of my new free iPad two-player game Knights vs Knightesses... it runs in Google Chrome and Safari. Note the graphics load much slower than the iPad app because it's online. If you're interested, the full source is viewable. It's all JavaScript because I'm using the PhoneGap wrapper for this one. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Playable JavaScript app of my new iPad game K . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:14:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=37355 The release of a massive but not complete Geocities archive made me wonder about all the past stuff we probably can't recover anymore (and the usage of stylesheets over time makes design changes so easy that they're also easily undocumented) - so my question: Which of your lost websites would you most love to get back? [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Which of your websites, deleted or lost years ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:13:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36924 Click the MapCrunch Go button and you'll be transported to a random (Google Street View covered) place in the world. [Via Reddit .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: See a Random Street View Location | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:49:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36876 Creator & creation contexts could be Single creator, team, crowdmade, automatically generated, indie publisher vs big studio etc. Consumer & usage contexts could be single player game, two-player game, app which needs a certain setting to work and so on. Let's give two specific examples. One is for one of the two-player iPad games which I recently do at VersusPad.com . The other will be for the fictional game Flora vs Corpses. Then we'll look at a music file. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:26:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36776 Corona is a development framework for creating apps for iPhone, Android and iPad, and from the first glance over the site I had just now it looks terrific. You will find API references, YouTube tutorial videos, Lua code samples download, a help forum, developer interviews, trial downloads and more at the site. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Corona, framework for creating iPhone/ Androi . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:11:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36615 [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Music in China... the way it should be ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:18:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36614 KurzweilAI writes : Researchers at Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany have developed "diminished reality" software that can delete an object from live, full-motion video. The software first reduces the resolution of the object, removes the image, and improves the result (similar to using a smudge tool in Photoshop), then incrementally increases the resolution, improving the result, until the original resolution is restored. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:47:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36613 When I ask a question in a Google Groups forum, how can I subscribe to replies immediately? Right now, after posting, the message "disappears" into the queue and won't show immediately. After some time (a minute or two I guess, during which you unfortunately also won't know the permalink), it will show, upon which you can go to the message and edit your options to "Email updates to me". Is there a way to do this immediately? Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:56:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35927 Pau Tomàs in the forum writes: Last thursday I attended Madrid's Google Devfest and one of the things I liked the most was one of the latest additions to Google Chrome, the speech attribute on the input fields. It allows to fill form fields using the microphone (without Flash!) and Google technology for speech recognition. I wanted to play a little with the techonology so I created a game as a weekend project. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:01:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35890 Tension has been mounting for some time between Facebook and its increasingly unhappy users [1] . As the web giant commits one breach of trust after another with no intention of maintaining what level privacy is left for its users, the online world itches for a suitable alternative. While Facebook was able to swiftly supplant MySpace's monopoly with their own, a much more successful one at that, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:48:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35875 ... and let's say that's what most people prefer, then why doesn't Google permanently remember my account's search setting that I don't want them opened in a new window/ tab? (At least that seems to be the behavior I'm getting here.) [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Why is Google's default to open result links ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:15:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35728 Has anyone of you started to prepare their web sites and apps for the Chrome Web Store ? I mean the thing Google calls "installable web apps", which is "a normal website with a bit of extra metadata". [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Have you tried preparing a web app for the Ch . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:20:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35672 Looxcie is a ~$200 camera you plug into your ear, which then records everything you see, following your field of vision. Several hours are recorded, with new stuff overwriting the old... and if you see anything interesting, you click its button and have the last 30 seconds saved and shared on YouTube and other networks. To tune and manage the camera and see the clips you download an app onto an Android phone like Google Nexus. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:13:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35666 While trying Internet Explorer 9 - Microsoft runs a Reddit ad campaign trying to get some feedback - and running into quirky behavior during installation and browsing, I realized just how much of a great job Google Chrome is doing: it's lightweight, fast, minimalist, gets out of your way, has a powerful address bar, and its UI even gets more simplified from version to version. I guess the best piece of task-oriented software is the kind that you don't even notice. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:34:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35623 Of course, some tiny percentage of sites may configure www as just another subdomain showing something different than non-www... What do you think? [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Chrome already got rid of the http://, ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:47:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34736 According to Deadline ... The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights to the Ken Auletta book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:25:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34635 Eric Schmidt talked to the Wall Street Journal : "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:49:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34636 Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps. Jens believes that for the internet "we must apply the same rules as we do in the real world. Our right to take panoramic snapshots, for instance, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:49:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34637 Do these things have a name, and what do they typically do? Gmail is chronically bad at filtering them out (or perhaps they do filter out many but there's just too much of them). They usually come with an image attached, and as you can see in this case, a SWF attachment. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Virus Game Attachments, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:49:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34595 Looking for free sounds for a project of yours... say, atmospheric background noises, or a dog barking, or laughter, piano music, a squeaking door, or anything else? FreeSounds.org is a great collection of Creative Commons licensed WAVs, MP3, AIFF files and more. You can enter a whole lot of things into their search engine and get back a whole lot of great samples. You can hear a preview for every sound, and for downloading a quick registration will do. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:13:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34554 Pingdom writes : Google is talking about fighting piracy, but perhaps the first thing they should focus on is actually making it possible for users to buy apps. All users. Sounds rather logical, doesn't it? So what are we talking about? The problem lies with Android Market. You can only pay for apps in 13 out of the 46 or so countries where Android phones are available. For those of you who like stats, 13 in 46 works out to less than 30%. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:35:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34399 Wordstream created a visual overview of what they call the "Google graveyard" , that is, failed products. On the list are Google X, Google Catalog, Google Buzz and many more. (Nitpick: they call Google Answers the "answer to Yahoo Answers", though actually, Google Answers was made years before Yahoo Answers.) Then again, if you learn something from a cancelled product, perhaps in the end it won't have been a failure. Also see the lost features of Google , Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:25:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34355 Paul Graham tells what went wrong, from his perspective, with Yahoo . "When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be ... What went wrong?" According to Paul, "Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company." [Via Andy . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:49:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34337 NetworkWorld collected a couple of interesting quotes by Google boss Eric Schmidt on the subject of privacy and anonymity. He states that privacy is important, but shares some doubts over whether complete anonymity should/ will be granted in the future. Bruce Schneier on the other hand argues: Here's the problem: The very companies whose CEOs eulogize privacy make their money by controlling vast amounts of their users' information. Whether through targeted advertising, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:26:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34336 I like the iPad as a casual device in general, but I love it as a two-player gaming device. Think of a board game where the pieces are magically moving... a game you can take to the cafe, to bars, play in the bus, on the train, whereever! With that in mind I created Ogs, which uses the great PhoneGap framework, allowing me to do it all in HTML/ JavaScript/ CSS. Please check out the video, and the game is now in the App Store . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:26:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34291 Company-internal disagreements are natural and likely healthy but I think it's interesting what they are about - from the Wall Street Journal : By late 2008, Google executives were preparing to launch ads targeted at users' interests. But the specifics still remained controversial. Tensions erupted during a meeting with about a dozen executives at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters about 18 months ago when Messrs. Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:05:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34272 Google and Verizon released a proposal relating to net neutrality . They claim their efforts are for an open internet: "[T]here should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices ... Importantly, this new nondiscrimination principle includes a presumption against prioritization of Internet traffic - including paid prioritization. So, in addition to not blocking or degrading of Internet content and applications, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:56:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34269 ABC News writes : South Korean police said they raided Google Inc's Seoul office on Tuesday on suspicion that the Internet search leader had illegally collected data on users. Google has been preparing since late last year to launch its "Street View" service in South Korea and the data collection was related to the launch, police said. [Thanks TomHTML ! Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:37:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34204 German publication Wirtschaftswoche ("Economy Week") says that German manufacturer Microdrones has delivered a cam-equipped flying mini drone to Google. Microdrones boss Mr. Juerss is quoted as saying "We have good chances for a long term business relationship with Google" (is he just overly optimistic? Google wasn't available for comment to the magazine). Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:22:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34104 Google's director of research Peter Norvig was interviewed by Slate : Google has been remarkably successful at creating popular products. How does the company create a culture that's conducive to generating new ideas? Well, we have great people, and that's a huge part of it. But I think the main thing is just trying a lot of ideas. We've built the ultimate system for making demos internally. If a startup company has an idea, it's like, "Well, Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:59:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34103 Google will kill off Google Wave, they told in a blog post . It was a technically very inspiring web app which, however, arrived without any particular and clear use case. This caused not only interface usability problems (Wave was good at allowing you to do a lot of things at once, but it often wasn't really good at anything in particular, e.g. plain chat when needed). It also caused social frictions as people were using the tool with different, colliding expectations . Search Engines News SEO News Google Blogoscoped Google Blogoscoped Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:41:30 GMT