Google vs Yahoo in Goole Books Ngram Viewer
Posted: Sun 12/19/2010 by ramiroIn a recent post by Perl guru and Google Books Engineering Manager Jon Orwant, the Google Books Ngram Viewer was announced. a tool for visualizing data in the Google Books corpus.
The Ngram Viewer searches more than 500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish and lets you compare phrases from the datasets over time.
How to Decipher a Country Code Top-Level Domain
Posted: Wed 02/03/2010 by ramiroTo quickly find out which country a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) belongs to, go to google.ccTLD and see what it says. Works in many cases still including China.
Having Google at Home
Posted: Sat 06/13/2009 by ramiroWhat happens when Google becomes your new roommate?
Getting Viral with Dots
Posted: Sat 03/07/2009 by ramiroor how to tweet as a pantomime. TheMime shows how to get viral on Twitter with always posting nothing but three dots. TheMime certainly deserves his popularity on Twitter, as I haven't seen any other user with such a stunning consistency in high quality tweets.
The chart below created with TwitterCounter demonstrates that it clearly helps to be mentioned in tweets from Google and many others.
10 Years of Google Homepages
Posted: Fri 10/10/2008 by ramiroThe look and feel of Google.com has not changed very much during the past 10 years. The most frequently changing part is the Google logo which is replaced by a Google doodle every now and then.
This video shows different Google.com homepages exposed to visitors since Google came into being in 1998. Fun to watch Google's design evolution — except for the soundtrack.
