Google Experiments with Search "Wonder Wheel" Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 25, 2009 Over at Google Blogoscoped, Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen have uncovered a Google Experiment called the "Wonder Wheel.
Over at Google Blogoscoped, Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen have uncovered a Google Experiment called the "Wonder Wheel. Ruscoe and Lenssen offered up screenshots using the search term "comic books. The experiment shows related searches.
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped added: "I think it's a pretty clear-defined case: webmasters put “noindex” in their page because they don't want the page indexed or shown. The ongoing discussion of the ways you can stop search engines from...
At Google Blogoscoped, Philipp Lenssen compares Google Translation to Systran and a human translation of a German paragraph into English, and vice-versa. Google has replaced the Systran software it had been using on its Google Translate service...
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped provides an example of this with his recent post .Edu and Spam, where he provides the example of America.edu, a site filled with Google Ads. Links from .edu domains are commonly thought to be higher quality...
Philipp Lenssen has discovered a hack to Google's XSS that allows access to personal data, according to Blogoscoped today. The tests he used with co-editor Tony Ruscoe show that is possible to get access to subject line information and first few...
Seems an internal presentation on Google Readre and their planned social networking efforts was leaked, according to Philipp Lenssen at Blogoscoped. The video presentation that a number of people online now have passed around was for Nooglers - new...
Philipp Lenssen does a great job with diagrams at BlogoScoped. Seems Google is getting ready to launch another of their G ideas. This time it is GPay - a mobile payment method that seems similar to that used in Europe and Asia already.
After this was discovered, Google sent an update to Philipp Lenssen (who runs Google Blogoscoped) that said the following: Yesterday Google Blogoscoped reported about the Google Custom Search blog being hacked.
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped posted yesterday about how the accuracy of Alexa data is really poor. Philipp is in fact spoofing the Alexa methodology itself as he indicated that the data: "uses gut feeling from a selected sample group (me...
This week, Ionut Alex Chitu at Google Operating System has spotted some changes to Google Video, and Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped follows up with more details. Lenssen writes: it looks like Google realized their strengths and finally...
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has compiled the answers to several questions on Google's censorship activities. In deciding whether the practice is "evil," according to Google's "don't be evil" motto, Lenssen points to two schools of thought:
Not to long ago, Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped reported that Google's new link count tools would show the link counts for other sites tool. In other words, you could get (more) accurate link counts from Google for sites you don't own.
Google Blogoscoped (8.5) -- Philipp Lenssen and others Technically, this is the ninth day of Christmas -- as well as the first week of New Year’s. So, it seems almost appropriate to start 2007 off with an odd mix of gifts and resolutions.
Philipp Lenssen spotted listings with more than one indented results for a search on get fuzzy. Philipp has a screen capture of it in action. Rose & Digg on Moderation*, Google Blogoscoped Parking Lot, Google Blogoscoped
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google is testing a link to open your Microsoft Excel documents within Google's Spreadsheets application. Philipp has a screen capture of it in action, and he explains, "We can expect much more of this cross-integration...
Both Garett and Philipp Lenssen have screen captures of what it looks like. More YouTube Removals, Google Blogoscoped Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped pointed out what a nice visual contrast the two posts make and posted a screenshot. It felt like a hack to many, certainly to me as well, and I posted the same to Google Blogoscoped:
Philipp Lenssen guesses that Google may be releasing some sort of Alexa engine. Philipp Lenssen spotted a screen capture of Google displaying a really long and extended description within the search results page for a search on [blogspot.com...
Philipp Lenssen reports on a whitelist of URLs found at sb.google.com which appears to be a whitelist of safe URLs to be used for the Google Toolbar. Be digging deeper into the forums area of Google Blogoscoped, you can see that the this...
