Google Experiments with Search "Wonder Wheel" Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 25, 2009 Over at Google Blogoscoped, Tony Ruscoe & PhilippLenssen have uncovered a Google Experiment called the "Wonder Wheel.
Over at Google Blogoscoped, Tony Ruscoe & PhilippLenssen 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.
Google Chrome: Google Open Source Browser Posted by Frank Watson Sep 1, 2008 PhilippLenssen over at Blogscoped has a detailed article about Google's browser project including a link to a great cartoon.
PhilippLenssen over at Blogscoped has a detailed article about Google's browser project including a link to a great cartoon. Apparently the rumors were true and the former Mozilla employees have been busy.
Though, PhilippLenssen points out parked domains are met with a bit of "do as I say and not as I do" philosophy. Updates to the Google Quality Rater guidelines have popped up, and Brian Ussery has written up a nice summary of the revised standards.
PhilippLenssen 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, PhilippLenssen 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...
PhilippLenssen 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...
PhilippLenssen 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 PhilippLenssen at Blogoscoped. The video presentation that a number of people online now have passed around was for Nooglers - new...
PhilippLenssen 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 PhilippLenssen (who runs Google Blogoscoped) that said the following: Boy this is frightening. Yesterday Google Blogoscoped reported about the Google Custom Search blog being hacked.
PhilippLenssen 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 PhilippLenssen at Google Blogoscoped follows up with more details. Lenssen writes:
it looks like Google realized their strengths and finally...
PhilippLenssen 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, PhilippLenssen 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.
The changes, as spotted by PhilippLenssen, include a change in emphasis on the result of violating quality guidelines from removal from Google's index to a site's removal or being "otherwise penalized.
Google Blogoscoped (8.5) -- PhilippLenssen 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.
PhilippLenssen spotted listings with more than one indented results for a
search on get fuzzy. Philipp has a screen
capture of it in action. Below, a recap of stories posted today and since last Wednesday to the Search
PhilippLenssen spotted listings with more than one indented results for a search on get fuzzy. Philipp has a screen capture of it in action. The first two results were from comics.com and the two other indented results were from Yahoo News.