Ocean Explorer Sylvia Earle has partnered with John Hanke, Director Google Earth to build a new ‘explore the ocean’ layer in Google Earth. You can explore the sea bed, look at sea-life, check out the best surf spots or look at information on the changing oceans. There’s also a tool allowing you to follow the [...]
More...The new Google Search Wiki is now live. When you’re logged in to your Google account, you’ll see the new tools alongside each search result. Google describes the service as a way to “customize your search results with your rankings, deletions, and notes — plus, see how other people using Google have tailored their searches”.
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As religion plays less of a role in our busy lives and technology an increasingly important role, this question certainly made me laugh. Read on for nine cheeky proof points on why Google is God. You can read Google prayers, Church of Google hate mail, read the Ten Commandments of Google and subscribe for the [...]
More...In celebration of their 10th birthday Google has reactivated it’s search page from January 2001 when the engine searched a paltry 1,326,920,000 pages (it’s over 10 billion today). Take a minute to look around and you will see favorites like Digg, Flickr and Twitter are nowhere to be seen.
More...This is in no way ‘new’ news as StumbleUpon (SU) has been around since 2001. Although unlike many other community-based sites the take up has not been as rapid - after four years Facebook has 63million active users compared to SU’s 5.5million.
Having said that, SU is unlike other community-based sites. Like all good sites, [...]
I came across a fascinating blog post on seomoz.org the other day ‘The Evil Side of Google‘, have a read as it details the methods Google uses to capture data as well as listing what Google does with all that data. Some eye opening reading.
When you read the list of Google acquisitions, you start to [...]