Bloggle : An unofficial Google Blog Archives: September 2008
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23 September 2008
Street View, Wiimote combine for a reason to finally exercise
Street view location courtesy of streetviewfun.com
An exceedingly clever Japanese man has combined the two great tastes of Google Maps Street View and a Nintendo Wiimote to create an amazing “jogging sim” (Is this a new genre?) where you can jog through the Street View location of your choice. The “jogging” works by putting the wiimote [...]
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19 September 2008
Google sides with pirates, ninja community protests
Today Google announced special treatment for pirates in the form of a pirate language search at Google.com.
It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates. As of today we are proud and rather relieved to announce that Google Search is available in Pirate.
But should [...]
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18 September 2008
More Google products broken. This time YouTube.
A few days ago I wrote about Google News Archive being broken and wrongly dating articles. Now I’ve found the YouTube is also working incorrectly. If you look carefully at the picture above you’ll see that I’ve searched for [google], set YouTube to look only for videos uploaded ‘This week’ and selected ‘Sort by view [...]
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17 September 2008
[Rumour] Google to acquire Valve. Could become Voogle?
Earlier today The Inquirer reported that Google was to acquire Valve. I didn’t report it because I wasn’t entirely sure how real this story might be. However a few moments ago TechCrunch blogged it and I suspect they wouldn’t have mentioned it if they felt there was no truth in it.
According to The Inquirer:
WELL PLACED [...]
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15 September 2008
According to Google, TechCrunch predates Attila the Hun
You might not have enjoyed history at school but I bet you knew enough so that if I asked you which came first, TechCrunch or Attila the Hun you’d at least guess at Attila. But now Google has rewritten history thanks to their News Archive.
Wikipedia tells me that Attila the Hun was born 406 AD. [...]