Then I saw “Open as as a Google Document” and I tried and, you know, it’s Good Enough. And snappy. And free. And internationalized. And I’m not the only person having this experience.
Tag: google
Google Hype Alert
this calls the feedback thingie on google news a really stupid idea. i think i agree.
Google in too many fights?
Google seems to be biting off a lot these days. In addition to making Microsoft “hell-bent” to kill them, creating a spat with eBay, frightening the news media, angering the big movie and TV studios, and fighting Yahoo and the other search engines, now Google is threatening the telcos.
translation: it is time for evolutionary pressure to weed out lumbering, customer-hostile giants.
Yahoo! bet on Hadoop
tim discovers what has been known for more than a year: yahoo trying to compete by open sourcing core google technologies. conveniently, they had various published papers to help them with the implementation..
Better GIS
SDI’s take years, if not decades, before they are ‘fully operational’. In less than 2 and half years Google has built a better ‘SDI’ than anyone else in the world.
i love disrupting industries asleep at the wheel.
Google and the Geospatial Web
What they are going for now is much more ambitious, and indeed a bit more risky. And so I applaud them for it – they are putting a stake in the ground that says ‘our best ideas are not behind us’. They are going to be a leading force in a much bigger pie.
Mobile Adsense
I get indexed by the mobile bot versions of Yahoo!, Microsoft, JumpTap, Ask, and others, and yet all of them together don’t drive 20% of the traffic that Google Search does – GOOG just completely owns the mobile web.
FCC Needs To Listen
The FCC has competing goals of maximizing revenue from the auction (suggesting less regulation) and protecting the public (suggesting more rules to force competition). Having open access requirements like those suggested by Google will spur competition and grow an economy around this spectrum. It will also put commercial pressure on mobile operators and broadband companies to reduce the restrictions they have on current broadband and mobile services.
the astroturfers are cute.
Bourne Ultimatum spam
Google started showing a blue box result promoting their iGoogle homepage which received a game for the Bourne Ultimatum movie. A gimmick like this blue box, which was showing for a variety of search terms like bourne ultimatum or jason bourne (some of which, but not all, have now been removed), was likely also aimed to add extra hotness to the movie – in return, Google got a product placement in the movie (someone’s seen using a Google search engine as “part of a promotional partnership with Google that did not involve any money changing hands”; not money, but goods, apparently).
more dumb marketing.
Kernel Debugging at scale
This paper will discuss the difficulties and methods involved in debugging the Linux kernel on huge clusters. Intermittent errors that occur once every few years are hard to debug and become a real problem when running across 1000s of machines simultaneously. The more we scale clusters, the more reliability becomes critical. Many of the normal debugging luxuries like a serial console or physical access are unavailable. Instead, we need a new strategy for addressing thorny intermittent race conditions. This paper presents the case for a new set of tools that are critical to solve these problems and also very useful in a broader context. It then presents the design for one such tool created from a hybrid of a Google internal tool and the open source LTTng project. Real world case studies are included.
how to deal with rare error conditions that are hard to reproduce
Gregor J. Rothfuss 