Tag: google

google-mysql-tools

Various tools for managing, maintaining, and improving the performance of MySQL databases, originally written by Google.

Michigan digitization project

Google sped up the effort ~350x, to ~1.5M volumes/y. in ~5 years, the effort will be complete.

Google Net Trust

Google Code progress in trust networks seems to have stalled since 2003, or it has fallen off my radar. maybe this one will push through?

Got Answers and Nowhere to Share Them?

Today we learned that Google Answers is closing. That’s a shame because some great knowledge was created on that service by the Google Answers Researchers.

The Yahoo! Answers community continues to thrive and grow. We believe in the power of community; in people helping people get answers to their questions.So, this is an open invitation for those researchers to join us.

heh. snarky

Separation of Google and state

Plagiarism Singularity

While some book authors and publishers have come to embrace Google’s book search, many are still fighting it. Paul Collins is predicting that Google’s book search will help turn up plenty of plagiarists, including some well known authors.

heh

Google passing Yahoo

By then Google, in #4 position with 110m monthly uniques across all properties, will have passed the slow-growing Yahoo, the current leader with 130m monthly uniques.

2006-12-23:

It was the first time that Google attracted more visitors than Yahoo, reflecting Google’s growing popularity outside the United States.

sitemaps.org

about time that the engines agree on a common sitemap format. now to take this forward with more TTL and other information, while making it hard to game.

Delicious Google Bookmarks

Inspired by Mihai’s discussion of Google Bookmark’s XML importing interface, I whipped up a quick bookmarklet for exporting one’s bookmarks from del.icio.us to Google. The greatest benefit of this approach is piece of mind, as communication between del.icio.us and Google is entirely client-side.

a first step to keep del and google bookmarks in sync

MySQL Camp Google Notes

The most fascinating bits I took out of it is how they take a partitioning/sharding strategy similar (but notably different in some ways) to WordPress.com and that they use DNS to manage all load balancing, high availability, datacenter failover, etc. DNS is a pretty powerful building block.

some interesting tricks