Does Google Earth provide too much information? Could it become a tool of terrorists?
Over the weekend I was talking with some friends about random events going on in the world and I asked the question “do you think the CIA will ever censor Google Earth?”
Now we discover that the suspects being held for [...]
How high can Google count? Very high it turns out but there is a limit.
Using the Google search box as a calculator, Google’s ceiling appears to be 2.00135558564^1023, which Google says equals 1.79769313 × 10^308.
Try 3^1023 and you get the search results page instead of a calculated result. The same holds true for 2^1024.
Increasing [...]
With the launch of Google Maps Street View come the inevitable backlash stories.
The New York Times has an article today that describes, how “the Google map service can zoom in so closely on buildings that it has caused Ms. Kalin-Casey and others to complain to the company and on blogs.”
This description comes from the [...]
Google today is releasing new search infrastructure to combine its video, local, book and images search systems with its text search.
So what is Universal Search? Basically it will lead to much more relevant search results.
As an example, searching for the “I Have a Dream” speech will return a Google Video clip of the speech [...]
October 3rd, 2008Don’t you hate when people read over your shoulder? When you’re using a laptop in public, there’s always some guy wanting to take a peek and se[...] Read the rest »
