Google: More Betta Meta
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A reader dubs Google the internet's "dominant brain." Plus: We need a Verizon moves in on cable's NY broadband territory. In Epicenter.
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A cat cloned to replace a dead pet for a Texas woman stirs ethical debate. Also: Scientists discover monster cockroach and mini crab in Indonesia.... EU caves in on stronger fishing limits.... and more.
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Prince Charles style move by ad colossus Noted bot-vs-bot information nexus Google has joined Prince Charles in swerving away from core business to offer environment strategies.â¦
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A small company delivering ads to net-based games is being snapped up by Google for $23 million. Plus: Darwinia developer eyes consoles. In Game|Life.
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Russ asks: Where's the OpenSocial container API? I love Russ because he cuts through all the BS and gets right to the core, most basic question, and he doesn't care who he pisses off. That's my kind of developer. You can't lie to the compiler, when the bits hit the road, you gotta know what garbage goes in and what garbage comes out.  (Ahh programmer's humor!) In other words, suppose I wanted to compete with Google, MySpace, Plaxo and LinkedIn, well, where's the spec that shows me how to do that? Well, of course I don't know, they aren't communicating with riffraff like me, but I have some experience with this kind of stuff, so I can hazard a guess. If they publish a spec,all kinds of projects will likely get started to enable the API in (just for the sake of argument): Drupal, WordPress, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Scripting News (why not add widgets to a random blog), CNN, The New York Times, well you get the idea. There might be lots of implementations very quickly. And that would be it for changes. It would be frozen de facto, they'd have to live with what they have, which given how quickly it was thrown together, probably isn't very good. Not the kind of stuff you'd like to support for the next decade or two. Or maybe they would break everyone, something guaranteed to make them a lot of enemies, much the way Microsoft did, and they were good at migration of APIs.  Google is good at doing AJAXy web UIs, they make users happy, but they're not very good at APIs. This one is a loser, for sure. That's the answer to Russ's question. It's probably not malice that keeps them from releasing details to everyone outside their club, it's pragmatism. They have to try to hold on to it to keep it from becoming even more of a mess than it already is. Just my opinion, for what it's worth. I've been wrong many times before.
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Yeah, but what's that in cubic furlongs? Those among you who recently adopted the new Vulture Central standards of volume, length, area and, critically, the speed of sheep in a vacuum, might be interested to learn that Google Maps has decided to offer a few alternatives of its own.â¦
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.
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Found in the search marketing forums: Future of YPN?; Link Exchanges and Google's Opinion; Most Improved PPC Program; and more.
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Google Has A New One for the Labs - Google Suggest  Google's Labs has popped out a new beta - Google Suggest. Google Suggest looks like the regular Google search, except as you type in keywords Google -- surprise! -- tries to guess what you could be typing. The really nifty ...
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Found in the search marketing forums: Google to Change AdWords Ranking Algorithm; Proposed: Google Should Stop Displaying Toolbar PR; SEO Budget; and more.
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Google is continuing to turn into the MTV of search with more and more video additions to the Google experience.  Last week YouTube hosted videos began popping up in Google search results under Google Video Plusboxes and now Google Finance is hosting finanical news videos on its homepage.  Each day, you&#8217;ll find a variety of videos [...]
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The net is buzzing with rumours that Google is working on a web browser. Online journals, or weblogs, have put together a series of developments which suggest that the search engine is developing new web tools.
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Google has updated its search engine for finding  source code, adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access.
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About two weeks ago I received a call from my friend Brian Smith of SingleFeed and Comparison Engines for some feedback on the addition of new and customized attributes to the Google Base (Froogle) shopping feed.  Brian covered these attributes on his SingleFeed blog but he did not get deep into what these attributes can [...]
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Niche search sites offer enhanced results for songs, movies, source code, engineering data and more -- for when the Google net spreads too wide.
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The internet search engine Google has released its first set of results since the company floated on the stock market two months ago.
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Google Inc. now provides a searchable index to the millions of Google Earth layers on the Web.