Bloggle : An unofficial Google Blog Archives: November 2008
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26 November 2008
Google Map’s Pegman hits the Big Screen
Google released a new UI for Google Maps yesterday. The new interface features a pop out Pegman who is now draggable on to the map. Dragging Pegman on to a StreetView-able location will launch StreetView in full screen view. Holding Pegman over a StreetView-able location will show a preview of that location.
There is also a [...]
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24 November 2008
Make SearchWiki more annoying with sound!
Plenty of people hate SearchWiki. There’s a nice round up at Search Engine Land. It’s well documented that Google haven’t provided an off switch for SearchWiki but they have been thoughtful enough to have made the sound effects an opt-in feature!
Want to make your Google experience even less enjoyable? Then head to Google Labs and enjoy [...]
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24 November 2008
Does it matter what Michael Arrington thinks of SearchWiki?
Over the past few days, high profile bloggers like Michael Arrington and plenty of others have been shouting loudly about their dislike of Google’s new SearchWiki and calling for Google to include an off switch. Many rejoiced over the weekend when SearchWiki was down thinking it to be a Google U-turn, only to be disappointed [...]
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21 November 2008
Google Analytics is down. Bloggle breaks silence.
Google errors are rare, but I still thought its not worth posting about and breaking the Bloggle silence. Google Analytics has been down for at least an hour now. It’s all over Twitter.
It’s an annoyance but I would let Google off if it means they are doing some kind of update. I doubt it though, [...]
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6 November 2008
People dress up in ridiculous clothes and pretend it’s art
When is “art” not art? It’s not art when it involves people just dressing up in stupid clothes for Google StreetView. /rant
Street With A View is an “art” project by Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley who teamed up with some residents in Pittsburgh and the Google StreetView team to stage a number of scenes that [...]