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Frequency of Strip Versions of Various Games (xkcd)

Google Blogoscoped  Feb 06 10

[Cartoon from Xkcd by Randall Munroe, (cc) free to share but not to sell] Full story...

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Google Analytics Plans to Offer Opt-Out for Users

Google Blogoscoped  17 hours ago

One of the most powerful citizens of Webtown also happens to be rather well-behaved at times -- which serves the interests of others as well as (arguably) the long term interests of the citizen itself.

YouTube: "For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there.&

Google Blogoscoped  17 hours ago

Chief Counsel of Google-owned YouTube, Zahavah Levine, in a blog post relating to the Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit writes: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there.

Facebook Overtakes Google Search

Google Blogoscoped  2 days ago

Hitwise, a web analysis business, said on its Analyst Weblog that Facebook was the most visited site last week, overtaking Google Search for the first time.

Google Street View Hong Kong

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 11 10

Google released Street View imagery for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a fun and busy place where it's easy to get lost, perhaps less so with these photo maps.

Reader Play, Google's Slideshow of Interesting Stuff

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 10 10

OK, I can see myself waste some time with this. Google Reader Play is a casual, push style way to feed yourself distracting/ enlightening/ inspiring snippets, imagery and videos.

No, we can't translate "Yes we can"

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 10 10

Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc.

Variable Speed for YouTube Videos

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 08 10

If you've opted in to YouTube's HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser's player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player.

Criticism of Google at Wikipedia

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 08 10

Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to criticism of Google.

Do Some People Confuse Public and Private Buzz Messages?

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 08 10

Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don't know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail's Buzz search sounded a bit odd.

The Ask-Our-Computer Service (from 1967)

Google Blogoscoped  Mar 07 10

This snippet is from Popular Science, May 1967, page 94: [Hat tip to George R!]



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