Tag: google

Google XML Pages

GXP is a templating system used to generate XML/SGML markup. the templating engine behind adwords, blogger and a few others.

Google Moderator

this is quite useful, but beware of speakers giving questions all of 2s thought before answering. all too common, and then you get cute or useless answers.

Google for BlackBerry

nice. now if only blackberries weren’t such slow pieces of crapware for losers tethered to exchange.

Google Chrome Comic

an awesome way to explain subtle issues. well done whoever came up with this idea.

Greg Stein on Google

But I’ve really been missing out on writing Open Source code. It has been several years since I have significantly contributed code to any Open Source project, and that has been a growing dissatisfaction for me. I’ve been involved with Open Source for over 14 years… it is one of the things that I love to do. My departure from Google is going to allow me to get back into Open Source development. It is going to allow me to travel. And it is going to allow me to explore where I’m going with my new life. I see a world and a lifetime of opportunity with this move, and am tremendously happy about it. And no, I’m not going to be working any time soon. Please feel free to contact me about short-term projects, and I’ll keep it in mind, but I don’t foresee any real interest until at least January.

greg stein moves on

Cuil

We’ve been testing the engine for the last hour. Based on our test queries Cuil is an excellent search engine, particularly since it is all of an hour old. But it doesn’t appear to have the depth of results that Google has, despite their claims. And the results are not nearly as relevant.

when i tried cuil.com from the google network i still got the old, unlaunched version.

Dictionary Compression

40% data reduction better than Gzip alone on Google search

Whole program optimizer

a scalable static whole program optimizer

Googlization of Everything

As you can tell from the title of this blog, the book will be about Google and all they ways that Google is shaking up the world. Google is a transformative and revolutionary company. I hesitate to use terms like that. We live in an era of hyperbole. So I try my best to discount claims of historical transformation or communicative revolutions.

a book in the making

Google hates XML

I just came across an article that announced Google open sourced their ‘Protocol buffers’ but decided NOT to use XML. They claim they could not use XML because ‘it isn’t going to be efficient enough for this scale’. WTF??? If this statement came from someone else, I would understand, but these guys are supposed to KNOW markup. Their solution is supposedly “20-100x faster” – which I refer to as “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. I bet I could make XML run circles around their system just by simplifying their schema.

what happened to oreilly standards? recently, they seem to have a lot of clueless “contributors”.