Topic: GOOGLE - on May 5, 2004 at 10:05:00 PM CEST
Removing google ads from RSS
not by choice, mind you. i really like having ads in my RSS feed. its the only way that i actually get clickthrough. but alas, i received a "cease and desist" letter from google:
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 2, 2004 at 9:02:00 PM CEST
How many Google machines
An interesting tidbit coming out of the Google S-1 filing is that they have spent about $250 million on hardware equipment. From there, we can get a few guesses at the magnitude of the Google system. Based on quick back of the envelope calculations, it looks like Google is managing between 45,000 and 80,000 servers.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 2, 2004 at 8:56:00 PM CEST
Google's sale is for US only
Google's revolutionary $2.7 billion internet auction of its shares has been restricted to US investors. The revelation comes as concern grows over the detail of its offering.
A top authority on financial auctions told The Observer the Google process risked replicating the excesses of late Nineties dotcom boom and bust.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 1, 2004 at 1:08:00 AM CEST
google.com/blog/
Was wird denn das? fängt google an mit einem eigenen Blog? ist das für Mitarbeiter? oder sogar einen zweiten Blogging-Service? (nach blogger.com)
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 30, 2004 at 11:00:00 AM CEST
Google sets $2.7 billion IPO
Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, finally filed for its initial public stock offering Thursday and promised to maintain its long-term focus even though it will soon face the intense scrutiny of Wall Street.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 28, 2004 at 6:14:00 PM CEST
Google Now Crawling Flash Code
Google has indexed Flash files for several months, despite the persistent “don’t use Flash” mantra of search optimizers.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 28, 2004 at 4:34:00 PM CEST
GoogleRace 2004
Wesley Clark wins the Shithappens award
Google has written an API that allows us to query their search engine and analyze the results. The key indicator that we are using to process our statistics is Total Results. If you run a search on Google, you can easily see how the total results for any search is also a measure of the popularity of that term across the web.
We are using different formulations for the user-defined Google race and the predefined and analysed trends.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 25, 2004 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
Please Remove This Feed
Google News RSS Feeds No More
Sorry folks, but I'm pulling the plug. Two reasons:
It was taking more and more bandwidth to offer these feeds. Before I took it down, I was getting roughly 3 hits per second. That's 10800 per hour, 259,200 per day, 94,608,000 per year... you get the idea. In more realistic numbers, each hit was about 10KiB (thanks to the fact that nearly NO RSS aggregators request inline gzip compression); that comes out to about 75GiB transfer per month. I started providing these feeds so there could be news headlines on the intranet of my former employer. I made the service (and the source) public with the intention of other people downloading the source and doing the same as me. But instead, everybody list pointed their aggregators to my site instead. Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad or blaming anyone. I'm just saying I can't support this level anymore. <P></P><CENTER>
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 24, 2004 at 3:23:00 PM CEST
20 Year Usenet Timeline
Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 21, 2004 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
WebCrawler Turns 10
WebCrawler Timeline
April 20, 1994 WebCrawler goes live on the Web with a database containing pages from just over 4000 different Web sites. Here's the announcement to the UW seminar that was discussing the Web. About a month and a half later, I announced WebCrawler on comp.infosystems.announce, the Usenet group where new Web sites were announced.
¬> thinkpink.com
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 16, 2004 at 1:15:00 AM CEST
I'm the staff photographer for Google, Inc.
I also have a day job as a product manager but I'd much rather annoy my colleagues by taking a ridiculous number of photos of them.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 13, 2004 at 10:31:00 PM CEST
Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly
While Linux advocates look to desktop software to challenge Microsoft's desktop championship, a new top-ranked contender is coming from a direction that's both unexpected and obvious: Google.
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