google caffine
I love Google’s moxie and the fact that they don’t quit getting better. Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or [...]
Google calendar plugin
Image via CrunchBase I have seen a number of calendar plugins – but the problem is, no one wants to be maintaining multiple calendars at once. This plugin leverages Google calendars on your blog – then you can keep maintaining everything in the same place. The Wordpress Google calendar plugin allows for the integration of a Google [...]
Use Google Libraries
Google has the best servers. I mean – like if you have ever really had to maintain a server, or website in your life…you understand what I mean. It sucks – like as soon as something you post gets popular, sha-bam, your server lays over and plays dead. Well Google can help – any files [...]
Google News – wp
Plugin: Google news If you lack content on your site – this is a good way to leverage Google News to add freshness. Google aggregates news from over 4500 news sources, updated continously. The results can be retrieved as a number of RSS feeds, where you can create your own specific feed by specifying one [...]
Don Dodge, Google and Goals
Dod Dodge is a very cool guy. He was ousted from Microsoft a few months back and has taken up residency at Google. He has a great post here in regards to goals and kicking butt. Google sets impossible bodacious goals…and then achieves them. The engineering mindset of solving the impossible problem is part of [...]
Google goes live with StreetView Ads
This is brilliant. Just like many of the video game makers ahve been doing for a while. This patent, which was originally filed on July 7, 2008, describes a new system for promoting ads in online mapping applications. In this patent, Google describes // <![CDATA[// how it plans to identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards [...]
How fast is your site?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife How fast is your site? This is a very timely article, as today our network guy gave a me a call to warn me our website’s error log was out-of-control. The caching plugin we were using was haywire. I had to turn off the page level caching to slow [...]
The Google Phone "Is a Certainty"
Image via CrunchBase I’m just saying – you mix WiMax with a Google phone (or even a iPod Touch that lets you do some VOIP) and you can kiss hat cell phone bill goodbye. What if Verizon got off their backside and just hooked us up with a way to add a cell card to [...]
New Google Calendar Features
Image via Wikipedia I’ve said for a while now that the biggets reason Outlook has not crubled in a pile of internal-server-based junk mail is the calendar. It’s just hard to beat, replicate and substitute. Google is trying, not winning yet…but trying. “We’re working a new feature that makes it easier to schedule events with [...]
Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You "What's Here" for Any Point on a Map… Almost
Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You “What’s Here” for Any Point on a Map… Almost. Attention media companies – please make sure to encode geo locations with your new stories. Everyone in the world would like to mash them up for you. Thank you.
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