I just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension HOWTO page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat: Here’s how to write your own Google Chrome extension in three steps: 1. Install the developer-channel version of Google Chrome. I don’t know if this is 100% necessary, but new [...] Full story...
Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search. The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go.
[Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion. I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.
In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this:
http://www.
Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you.
I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans.
Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work.
Okay, someone tell me if this device exists (or build it!). I want a device where I can pay $10-15 to get a gadget in the mail.
I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found:
- Lulu will take PDF files for a book.
Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked.
Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches:
Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters.