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. Google's Search Experiments are Sometimes Subtle
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. Interestingly Matt argued that Google needs some discretion of what...
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. In addition to the Google ads, the rest of the content is in the form...
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. If the other people who started this have not filed a patent in the US it will be interesting to see if Google gets it...
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 Matt Cutts, software engineer and head of the Web spam team at Google Hey, if Google can sell radio ads then why can’t we shake up some old traditions?
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. Parking Lot, Google Blogoscoped Rose & Digg on Moderation*, 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 Google Base 2.0 Revealed? Garett Rogers found in Google's robots.txt file, "Disallow: /base/s2" and then gave the URL a try and...
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped pointed out what a nice visual contrast the two posts make and posted a screenshot. Google Blogoscoped has a good write-up on what was initially posted (and screenshot here), an anonymous message saying that...
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...
