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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 [...]
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10 October 2008
We knew the markets would be bad…but surely not this bad?!
Yes we all knew today would be a bad day for trading…but Google Finance is showing it as being far more catastrophic than anyone expected. Earlier, Kirby Witmer and others saw Google Finance showing a 1200 point drop for the Dow Jones index. That really would be terrible. Like end of the world terrible.
Fortunately, it [...]
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30 September 2008
Star (Wars) turn out in Hollywood for Google Car
Darth Vader (and friend) recently took a trip to Hollywood to get their picture taken by the Google Car. Whether this is a hostile move by Darth remains to be seen but he does look particularly menacing.
To see the original of this once in a lifetime piece of photography just hit the link.
[from io9].
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30 September 2008
Google testing different size search result descriptions
Image thanks to TechCrunch
Yesterday a Webmaster World forum thread reported that some users were being given the ability by Google to change the length of their search result descriptions. Users reported being able to select ‘S’, ‘M’ or ‘L’ to change the length of the snippet.
It appears that longer snippets were being formed from the [...]
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27 September 2008
Bloggle welcomes a second writer
Image by heliosphan
I probably ought to have made this post a few days ago but since there won’t be much news today perhaps its more appropriate to post it now.
You may have noticed a few posts by someone other than ‘Dave Shaw’ appearing on Bloggle. Ross Turner has been helping by writing a number of [...]