Search Google Profiles
October 31, 2008 on 5:13 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off
Google recently published a Sitemap file containing the URLs of public Google Account profiles. Now, they've also started to offer a special profile search. You can access it from the bottom of your Google profile, or you can enter your keywords in the box below:
Note the service is flaky at the moment and was down for me during many tries. Sometimes, hitting refresh on a failed query made it work the second time, though. (Also note that a crawler I recently wrote found more profiles for e.g. the keyword "blogoscoped", so it might be that Google does not go through all data fields with their search.)
[Thanks Moustafa ZA!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Search Google Profiles | Comments]
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Google’s Robots.txt Halloween Entry
October 31, 2008 on 10:55 am | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments OffUser-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains
[Thanks Hebbet!]
[By Tony Ruscoe | Origin: Google's Robots.txt Halloween Entry | Comments]
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Larry Page On Evaluating Projects
October 30, 2008 on 10:17 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments OffDharmendra S. Modha quotes Google co-founder Larry Page saying that he evaluates projects on a simple binary metric: “whether, if successful, it can change the world?”
[Thanks Siggi!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Larry Page On Evaluating Projects | Comments]
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Google’s “Accessible View” Experiment
October 30, 2008 on 4:52 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off
Google has added an opt-in experiment to their Experimental Search page. Called “Accessible View”, when you join this one you will see a blue focus box around individual search result items in Google web search. You can then use the up and down arrows on the keyboard to select different items, and hit enter to go to the specific page. The blue focus box is “magnified to aid low-vision users,” Google says, and that “if you are using a screenreader ... you will hear the relevant information spoken automatically as you navigate.” Google notes that you’ll need Firefox 3 to use all of these experiment’s features.
In other Labs news, Google recently added a new section to their Google Apps suite marketplace. Program parts of the Google Apps Labs are Google Moderator, Google Code Reviews, and Google Short Links.
[Hat tip to Hebbet for the Google Apps Labs news.]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google's "Accessible View" Experiment | Comments]
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Google Street View Italy Live, Too
October 29, 2008 on 9:00 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off
Google Maps Street View was rolled out for Spain on Monday, and now it’s live for Italy too. You can drag around the yellow person icon to view panorama pics in the locations Milan, Florence, Rome and Lake Como.
[Thanks Leonardo!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Street View Italy Live, Too | Comments]
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