tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51096033890111546982024-02-19T02:41:32.740-08:00Google And Bing TechnologyIncredible Google And Bing Technology Never You ImaginedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-24593792657434113472009-10-05T01:41:00.001-07:002009-10-05T01:43:41.118-07:00Will Google's Wave Replace E-Mail and Facebook<p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PKTKRvx_3dKN_WHN4JjVIAVcZexpmTpnNwNOkCAYj29UJtgorEhqzstrPX68aBEs6sKCGmFX18UOk4GBIu4EhA9aBKEmmvGoVeAP84tGjbnIbHRR2GJTDXr2_7vmOeURa8MMaIaGzm0n/s1600-h/google-wave.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389033585817979026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PKTKRvx_3dKN_WHN4JjVIAVcZexpmTpnNwNOkCAYj29UJtgorEhqzstrPX68aBEs6sKCGmFX18UOk4GBIu4EhA9aBKEmmvGoVeAP84tGjbnIbHRR2GJTDXr2_7vmOeURa8MMaIaGzm0n/s320/google-wave.jpg" border="0" /></a>Google has big plans for Google Wave, its new online communication service and they won't all come from Google. </p><p align="justify">The Web search giant is hoping that software developers far and wide will create tools that work in conjunction with Wave, making an already multifaceted service even more useful. Google (GOOG) is even likely to let programmers sell their applications through an online bazaar akin to Apple's App Store, the online marketplace for games and other applications designed for the iPhone. </p><p align="justify">"We'll almost certainly build a store," Lars Rasmussen, the Google software engineering manager who directs the 60-person team in Sydney, Australia, that created Wave, told BusinessWeek.com. "So many developers have asked us to build a marketplace and we might do a revenue-sharing arrangement." </p><p align="justify">Combining instant messaging, e-mail, and real-time collaboration, Wave is an early form of so-called real-time communication designed to make it easier for people to work together or interact socially over the Internet. Google started letting developers tinker with Wave at midyear and then introduced the tool on a trial basis to about 100,000 invited users starting on Sept. 30. </p><p align="justify">Invitations were such a hot commodity that they were being sold on eBay (EBAY). For Google the hope is that Wave, once it's more widely available, will replace competing communications services such as e-mail, instant messaging, and possibly even social networks such as Facebook. </p><p align="justify">If Wave takes off, applications created by outside developers could make it more useful, and an app store would give those programmers and their financial backers a share in Wave's success. Already, independent software developers have built and tested Wave applications that handle such tasks as teleconferencing, videoconferencing, and multiplayer gaming. </p><p align="justify">Wave wouldn't be Google's first stab at an app store. Google runs Android Market, which sells third-party software for phones such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and shares 70% of those sales with developers, keeping the rest. Android Market offers about 10,000 apps, compared with the more successful Apple (AAPL) App Store, which sells software for the iPhone and iPod touch devices and boasts more than 85,000 apps. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-77748757378546406822009-10-02T03:17:00.000-07:002009-10-02T03:21:10.047-07:00Google invites users to join Wave<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgIWonBg-QSs5XAMOw-5uponGOPiGIwZHIeCe1ShFJasAe9vUYTeU84eJ12QjLGjamVWBbaBtIBcLXH6nGyvpSo88dVg3HnBEpRW6YDAwNvtmeeiM0I2_kb2in-JieB5Vvpd_VEGbvrPm/s1600-h/google-wave.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387945561478705858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgIWonBg-QSs5XAMOw-5uponGOPiGIwZHIeCe1ShFJasAe9vUYTeU84eJ12QjLGjamVWBbaBtIBcLXH6nGyvpSo88dVg3HnBEpRW6YDAwNvtmeeiM0I2_kb2in-JieB5Vvpd_VEGbvrPm/s320/google-wave.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>Google Wave</strong>, which combines e-mail, instant messaging and wiki-style editing will go on public trial today.<br /></div><p align="justify">The search giant hopes the tool, described as "how e-mail would look if it were invented today", will transform how people communicate online. It will be open to 100,000 invitees from 1600BST, each of whom can nominate five further people to "join the Wave". </p><p align="justify">The tool is also open source, meaning third party developers can use the code to build new applications. The developer behind Wave described it as "a communication and collaboration tool". </p><div align="justify">"It struck us that e-mail is still the main communication tool on the web, which seemed remarkable given that it is 20-year-old technology," said Lars Rasmussen, who, alongside his brother Jens, was the brains behind Google Maps. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><p align="justify">In designing Wave, the brothers took as a starting point the idea of "a conversation sitting in a cloud". This means people can see a comment being written character by character and can formulate their answer to a question before a fellow 'Waver' has even finished asking it. </p><div align="justify">Mr Rasmussen acknowledges that this feature could be annoying, but thinks it is also a great time-saver. For those unsure whether they want all their Wave friends to see exactly what they are writing, when they are writing it, the developers are working on a draft mode which will allow the real-time aspect to be switched off . </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><p align="justify">Unlike traditional instant messenger (IM) conversations continue even once everyone has logged out. This means that those invited to a Wave conversation but not currently online, can read the message strand in full at a later date. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-92130061887784897142009-09-17T02:56:00.000-07:002009-09-17T02:57:03.061-07:00Java Technology on Google<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hotbwYStwH8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hotbwYStwH8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-83420233230918870432009-09-15T04:57:00.000-07:002009-09-15T04:58:07.254-07:00GOOGLE SELF REPLICATING NANO TECHNOLOGY<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/giw7RU3GS5g&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/giw7RU3GS5g&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-16895331313113953742009-09-14T00:13:00.000-07:002009-09-14T00:15:26.773-07:00Silicon Valley Google Technology<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="440" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XvebKsu86jI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XvebKsu86jI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="340"></embed></object></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-57192726561039525002009-09-11T05:28:00.001-07:002009-09-11T05:28:56.037-07:00Nonprofit Technology about Google Apps<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOgIARpSh6U&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOgIARpSh6U&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-70759543533206879372009-09-10T22:48:00.000-07:002009-09-10T22:50:36.938-07:00Space Shuttle Discovery<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FjCJyrVD2k8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FjCJyrVD2k8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-14284169387534068452009-09-10T03:13:00.000-07:002009-09-10T03:15:00.783-07:00Google Adsense Technology<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tSN0ywpVLzI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tSN0ywpVLzI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-7502068607329894832009-09-09T23:50:00.000-07:002009-09-09T23:52:55.393-07:00Google AdWords for Advertisers<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> designed AdWords for advertisers who want to reach a qualified audience as efficiently as possible. Advertisers select their own target keywords and only pay when customers click on their ads. It's easy to create ad text and manage online advertising accounts with no large upfront payment required. All that's needed is five minutes and a credit card. The ads appear across Google's growing roster of partners, including thousands of sites from America Online to the Washington Post, and are targeted to relevant search and content pages. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google's</span> experienced sales and service team optimize campaigns for our larger advertisers. Our staff of AdWords experts work with advertisers to select the appropriate keywords and generate the matching creative, then carefully monitor the campaign to improve its performance over time by winnowing keywords and rewriting copy based on what is most effective. There's no limit to the number of keywords that an advertiser can select and each keyword can be matched with a different creative execution. Recent advertisers include Amazon, Cisco Systems and Staples.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> provides all of its advertisers with a full complement of reporting services to enable fine tuning of campaigns and real-time intelligence about which components are performing best. Advertisers can further increase efficiencies by targeting their campaigns to specific geographies or languages.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-14038099977051451202009-09-08T23:41:00.000-07:002009-09-08T23:42:33.640-07:00Google Technology grows and business blooms<p style="text-align: justify;">Google Technology : Over time, these two business lines evolved into balancing networks. Google AdWords advertisers generate ads to drive qualified traffic to their sites and generate leads. Google publishing partners bring those ads targeted to relevant search results powered by Google AdSense. With AdSense, the publisher shares in the revenue generated when readers click on the ads. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">For sites wishing to have more control over their intranet or site searches, Google developed the Google Search Appliance, a scalable and secure appliance that delivers accurate search results across any number of documents.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Google continues to think about ways in which technology can improve upon existing ways of doing business. New areas are explored, ideas prototyped and budding services nurtured to make them more useful to advertisers and publishers. However, no matter how distant Google's business model grows from its origins, the root remains providing useful and relevant information to those who are the most important part of the ecosystem – the millions of individuals around the world who rely on Google search to provide the answers they are seeking. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-49345967769780930392009-09-08T21:53:00.000-07:002009-09-08T21:58:17.655-07:00Google Technology : Business Overview<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0rmPoKMNo3U9Ucmrk4mR387nzIoQCCvojSOdEbKD4Cetlz0nxQP6SqrF-41L3gNp3cUW6TkrLrEvBuTE0jVlWAHX7NxUKXRejzPnV9lEoVVNSPrkddBKQISculq9Ja_B5rD8mecsMAPr/s1600-h/google_technology.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0rmPoKMNo3U9Ucmrk4mR387nzIoQCCvojSOdEbKD4Cetlz0nxQP6SqrF-41L3gNp3cUW6TkrLrEvBuTE0jVlWAHX7NxUKXRejzPnV9lEoVVNSPrkddBKQISculq9Ja_B5rD8mecsMAPr/s320/google_technology.jpg" alt="Google Technology " title="Google Technology " id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379327406570691842" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">As with its technology, Google has chosen to disregard conventional knowledge in designing its business. The corporation started with seed money from angel investors and brought together two competing venture assets firms to fund its first equity round. While the dotcom boom exploded around it and competitors spent millions on marketing campaigns to "build brand," Google focused in its place on quietly building a better search engine. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">he word quickly spread from one fulfilled user to another. With greater search technology and a high volume of traffic at its Google.com site, Google's managers identified two early opportunities for generating revenue: search services and advertising.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-76541901997589491872009-09-08T03:22:00.000-07:002009-09-08T03:28:06.128-07:00Google Technology user group<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/95NQMwMPY6k&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/95NQMwMPY6k&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-70219923983532756572009-09-07T21:03:00.001-07:002009-09-07T21:03:37.830-07:00Google Branding Technology<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FVdQ2lprKVs&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FVdQ2lprKVs&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-76755259270584553802009-09-06T22:48:00.001-07:002009-09-06T22:50:35.330-07:00Google Patent Trustrank : Technology<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> is filing a patent for TrustRank, a <span style="font-weight: bold;">technology </span>that aims to sort Google news results by quality rather than simply by "date" and "relevance" to search terms. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> database will be built by continually monitoring the number of stories from all news sources, along with average story length, number with bylines, and number of the bureaux cited, along with how long they have been in business, the number of staff a news source employs, the volume of internet traffic to its website and the number of countries accessing the site.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> will take all these parameters, weight them according to formulae it is constructing, and distil them down to create a single value. This number will then be used to rank the results of any news search.</p><div style="text-align: justify;">There are some interesting and valid points mentioned in the Google Research paper on Combating Web Spam with TrustRank.<br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-38950511996525053172009-09-03T23:31:00.000-07:002009-09-03T23:33:26.486-07:00Hypertext-Matching Analysis: Google<p style="text-align: justify;">Our search engine also analyzes page content. However, instead of simply scanning for page-based text (which can be manipulated by site publishers through meta-tags), our technology analyzes the full content of a page and factors in fonts, subdivisions and the precise location of each word. We also analyze the content of neighboring web pages to ensure the results returned are the most relevant to a user's query. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Our innovations don't stop at the desktop. To give people access to the information they need, whenever and wherever they need it, we continue to develop new mobile applications and services that are more accessible and customizable. And we're partnering with industry-leading carriers and device manufacturers to deliver these innovative services globally. We're working with many of these industry leaders through the Open Handset Alliance to develop Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, which will offer people a less expensive and better mobile experience.<br /><br />For more information Visit : <a href="http://technologyversesworld.blogspot.com/">Google Technology</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-87784451987352468482009-09-03T02:13:00.000-07:002009-09-03T02:18:34.395-07:00PageRank : Google Technology<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2csnt1DQDtk1oZHg-u5ky7826ce0aNQEEjIkWOJ76efNykTJmbWX00PWMxyZyxMsCwqAYBpv9VPtnkGxkYCG2QOtor56ujIUkrucq4bB0d1AjY5jEAFHuWMIJH8uqt0QDul0fw3RIp3Aa/s1600-h/Page-Rank.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2csnt1DQDtk1oZHg-u5ky7826ce0aNQEEjIkWOJ76efNykTJmbWX00PWMxyZyxMsCwqAYBpv9VPtnkGxkYCG2QOtor56ujIUkrucq4bB0d1AjY5jEAFHuWMIJH8uqt0QDul0fw3RIp3Aa/s320/Page-Rank.png" alt="Page Rank" title="Page Rank" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377167876102797394" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">PageRank reflects our outlook of the significance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we consider are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are further likely to appear at the top of the search results. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked web page superior value. We have always taken a practical approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to verify a page's importance.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-56340805705531045392009-09-02T23:00:00.000-07:002009-09-02T23:02:45.606-07:00Google Technology Overview<p align="justify">We ( <strong>Google </strong>) stand unaided in our focus on developing the "perfect search engine," defined by co-founder Larry Page as impressive that "understands exactly what you mean and gives you back precisely what you want." To that end, we have tirelessly pursued innovation and refused to recognize the limitations of existing models. As a result, we developed our serving infrastructure and breakthrough PageRank <strong>technology </strong> that changed the method searches is conducted. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">From the beginning, our developers are familiar in providing the fastest, most precise results required a new kind of server setup. Whereas most search engines ran off a handful of big servers that often slowed under peak loads, ours working linked PCs to quickly find each query's answer. The novelty paid off in faster response times, greater scalability and lower costs. It is an idea that others have since copied, while we have sustained to refine our back-end <strong>technology </strong> to make it even more efficient.<br /><br /></div><p align="justify">The software behind our <strong>Google </strong><strong>searching technology </strong> conducts a series of concurrent calculations requiring only a fraction of a second. Traditional search engines rely greatly on how often a word appears on a web page. We use more than 200 signals, including our patented PageRank algorithm, to inspect the entire link structure of the web and determine which pages are most important. We then conduct hypertext-matching analysis to conclude which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted. By combining overall importance and query-specific relevance, we are able to put the most related and reliable results first. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-78168039008022747102009-09-02T02:13:00.000-07:002009-09-02T02:18:36.893-07:00Google spends a lot on video compression<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Google </strong> appears to be gambling big on the growth of online video. With RJ jacks becoming almost as common as dirt on larger consumer TV's it is probably an excellent gamble. Online video will continue to rise exponentially, with existing bandwidth becoming the most limiting factor. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Making the most of obtainable bandwidth is a superior defensive move for anyone distributing content online. Never the less, lack of available last mile bandwidth will continue to keep a strangle hold on how much content can be delivered to consumers. I have to wonder how long <strong>Google </strong> and other content producers and distributors will endure the duopoly limiting the possible to grow their businesses going forward.<br /><br />For more information visit <a href="http://technologyversesworld.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Technology</span></a><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-9337725868164037762009-09-01T21:48:00.000-07:002009-09-01T21:54:28.612-07:00The technology behind Google's great results<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-XhGpdNDxMaq7zgks7TtbyDggSfunC8tlI4kC4duj3eC3ewspXhamRkZPBruaKc0NR748J31WPYwXIga0AG0xlL2s7g0NeqlH4TyzJJgM_RfyuQk7yZokwXCGVYGi9oDDacFRiLbDKxa/s1600-h/Pigeon-Rank-System.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 71px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-XhGpdNDxMaq7zgks7TtbyDggSfunC8tlI4kC4duj3eC3ewspXhamRkZPBruaKc0NR748J31WPYwXIga0AG0xlL2s7g0NeqlH4TyzJJgM_RfyuQk7yZokwXCGVYGi9oDDacFRiLbDKxa/s320/Pigeon-Rank-System.jpg" alt="Pigeon Rank System" title="Pigeon Rank System" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376727927230240290" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As a Google user, you are proverbial with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google handle to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is <strong>PigeonRank</strong>, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University .<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Building upon the penetrate work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the comparative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every feature of our service on a day by day basis, <strong>PigeonRank </strong>continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Why <strong>Google's </strong> patented <strong>PigeonRank </strong> works so well</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Pigeon Rank's </strong> success relies mainly on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its single capacity to recognize objects despite of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an aptitude that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.<br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">By collecting flocks of pigeons in opaque clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to conventional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, menacing hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.</p><div style="text-align: justify;">When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at glowing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel block with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks are returned at the top of the user's results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-18738175931620256802009-08-31T22:55:00.000-07:002009-08-31T22:57:34.552-07:00Google's AL Technology<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q0Tv9pboPLc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q0Tv9pboPLc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-55573271219858671602009-08-31T05:46:00.000-07:002009-08-31T05:49:24.891-07:00Google Technology<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jCpwfUD024E&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jCpwfUD024E&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="340"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-69329224635617697572009-08-31T02:43:00.000-07:002009-08-31T02:47:04.860-07:00Mars investigation Orbiter Mission Status Report<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9qqXllIbN_lfBrfYMUsC-f71NtY4gbSLp-xMr2ZVloBPBb5H_7CN1nGrww4yGkD3hY1tG0mzJAQtEdFS46IVsIjTUXOmQXguWwQUOXnilF4PdS5Dvb61DMPuYd7Zt_bKWLnjVZ-Z4kQRG/s1600-h/mars-space.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9qqXllIbN_lfBrfYMUsC-f71NtY4gbSLp-xMr2ZVloBPBb5H_7CN1nGrww4yGkD3hY1tG0mzJAQtEdFS46IVsIjTUXOmQXguWwQUOXnilF4PdS5Dvb61DMPuYd7Zt_bKWLnjVZ-Z4kQRG/s320/mars-space.jpg" alt="Mars investigation Orbiter" title="Mars investigation Orbiter" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376061768745664994" border="0" /></a><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">Mars investigation Orbiter<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars investigation Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, as maintaining spacecraft health and communications. While in safe mode, the spacecraft has incomplete activities pending further instructions from ground controllers. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Engineers have begun the process of diagnosing the problem previous to restoring the orbiter to normal science operations, a process expected to take several days. They will watch for engineering data from the spaceship that might aid in identifying the cause of event and possibly of previous ones. The orbiter spontaneously rebooted its computer Wednesday, as it did in February and June, but did not switch to a redundant computer, as it did in early August.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">To help in investigating a root cause of the three previous anomalies, engineers had programmed the spacecraft to often record engineering data onto non-volatile memory. That could give a better record of spacecraft events leading up to the reboot. We hope to gain a better understanding of what is triggering these events and then have the spacecraft safely resume its study of Mars by next week, said Mars investigation Orbiter Project Manager Jim Erickson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">The spaceship has been investigating Mars with six science instruments since it reached that planet in 2006. It has returned with more data than all other current and past Mars missions combined.<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-29819791267486166372009-08-30T22:05:00.000-07:002009-08-30T22:08:07.183-07:00ASTEROID WATCH<p style="text-align: justify;">How our solar system was formed has fascinated scientists and laymen alike for -well, for a really, really long time. New research may have answered a piece to the puzzle - how big were the first planetesimals? For those of you scoring at home," planetesimals" were the first solid objects in our newly minted solar system (also known as the protoplanetary disk). They began life as small grains of dust orbiting an infant sun. These grains would bump into each other, clump together and gradually form larger grains of dust, which eventually became small space rocks. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Now the theory goes that some of these small rock-sized planetesimals aspired for greater things, and continued to gradually grow in size to become asteroids, and that a few of those continued to grow beyond the asteroid stage and become planets.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The problem with this tidy little theory is that when the burgeoning space rocks grew to about one meter (3.3 feet) in size, orbital mechanics tells us the gas comingling with them in the protoplanetary disk should have acted like a brake, slowing their velocity appreciably. Their orbital speed having been cut, these filing cabinet-sized space rocks would have spiraled into the sun. Essentially, the gas would have acted as a celestial "mini-vacuum." The problem is, there are asteroids up there in space. Honest, ask any astronomer. So what happened? </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Evidence is now mounting that these small space rocks quickly jumped (or grew) in size from below one meter to multi-kilometer in size. Planetesimals that big were big enough to plow through the drag created by the gas in the protoplanetary disk without having their orbits appreciably altered. Hence they did not spiral into the sun.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">What data point to a jump in asteroid sizes? Simply, the asteroids available for viewing in the night's sky. Telescopic surveys indicate there is currently a plethora of asteroids less than one kilometer (.62 mile) wide but those over one kilometer drop considerably in number. The authors used computer simulations in an attempt to mimic the impacts and coagulation processes that took place over the millions of years between when the asteroids formed and now. The only way they could arrive at the current asteroid size distribution was to begin these simulations with planetesimals that quickly morphed into asteroids hundreds of kilometers in size. Once their growth spurt was over, these massive celestial bodies began an epoch-sized game of demolition derby as they orbited the sun. Over the eons, and with each extraterrestrial pileup, came fewer and fewer large asteroids - a fragmentation process that continues to this day. Despite the modest sizes of asteroids today, the paper's authors conclude that asteroids must have been born big. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-71467782804960587092009-08-28T00:36:00.000-07:002009-08-28T00:38:11.035-07:00Gmail takes new contact chooser<p style="text-align: justify;">Gmail has long had a feature that automatically suggests and fills out the name of people you have corresponded with. On Tuesday night, the service got a tweak that makes that process easier--it's also likely to be second-nature to Microsoft Outlook users. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Now clicking on the link next to the "to" field pulls up Gmail's contact list manager, where you're able to very quickly sort through your contacts, or anyone you've e-mailed, and pick the ones you want to include in the message. The same goes for removing anyone; you just have to click on their name again and they get removed.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Not readily available when using this new menu is a way to select which of these users you want to add as CC's or BCC's. Outlook does this in the same menu, whereas in Gmail, you have to open up each of those fields in the message, and then click to open up the contact manager yet again. Hopefully future versions update this process and combine those options into the same UI. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">This may seem like a very little feature, but for heavy Gmail users it removes the need to create particular lists of contacts they e-mail on a regular basis. Instead, it makes use of regular e-mailing habits and more deeply integrates the short list of people you are communicating with the same one that's found in Google's contacts manager.<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5109603389011154698.post-7457360010663043352009-08-28T00:06:00.000-07:002009-08-28T00:09:53.409-07:00Google adds translation to Docs<p style="text-align: justify;">Google continues to go language transformation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">The new feature, tucked away in a settings menu, has the smarts to automatically detect in which language the original document is written. It then opens the translated version in a new window, allowing you to compare and contrast the two side by side, more easily checking whether the translation has bungled any words or phrasing.<br /><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">This new version can then either replace the original or be saved as a copy, though Google makes no visual indication in your document source list that its contents are in another language. Over the last six months, Google has been quite busy adding translation to its other products, including its Gmail and Friend Connect services. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">In Gmail's case, users can translate entire messages into one of Google Translate's supported languages; however, this feature must first be enabled in Gmail's Labs settings menu. The translation implementation in Friend Connect is a little more interesting, as it's able to unify the language on any comment thread, regardless of how many languages in which the user comments are written.<br /><br />source: news.cnet<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0