Tag Archives: google

Strange search results

August 21, 2008 – 10:09 pm

I wonder if it is an invasion of privacy to see what you were searching for when you found a website? Not much that can be done about it, except only allow POST queries… perhaps?
Google likes it this way. They can see, We can see, so nobody questions it.
Today I found:

types of interview questions you […]

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Make tracks in Europe

August 18, 2008 – 11:05 pm

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You can use Google maps to plan a car journey, or (still in Beta) a walking journey. Some countries are not as well maintained as others, but you can make plans to travel through rather a few of them… I guess it depends on how close the roads data is to the towns […]

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Google in Maori

August 6, 2008 – 2:28 pm

On the Offiical Google Blog, a much more informative post has been made about the effort and work that has been done to get Google in Maori off the ground and exactly who should take credit for this hard work. Since I posted about it, I have received a rather large number of hits; so […]

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Cuil - We’ll be back

July 28, 2008 – 11:12 pm

Tonight/Today, the news around the technology blogosphere is all about Cuil; In my feeds…
New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google

…reports that Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’), a startup founded by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, is launching a new search engine today that claims to index […]

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Google in te reo Māori

July 23, 2008 – 10:43 pm

Well almost, it would be great if google translate had te reo Māori options. Despite all the news about how great this is for te reo maori, I can’t actually find any Google application that will do anything in te reo Māori.
Unbelievably, I could find Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Hacker and something called “Bork bork bork“; […]

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