The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine is a paper written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page while at Stanford that introduces Google: “A prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext.”
Pretty cool to see what they were thinking–way back when…..
Thanks to Ionut Alex. Chitu at Google Operating System for hunting this down.
Intimate details on the Google YouTube deal according to Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick.
Rumor and speculation? – or not?
Check it out here.
Google launched the Google Custom Search Engine today, a pretty neat way of building and customizing a search engine for your blog or website, that can make money for you if you so desire. No programming skills are required, the product is free, and it looks as if this could be the start of “citizen search.”
Check out these interesting takes: Om Malik at GigaOM:
“My inner cynic thinks this is – distributed search optimization effort.”
Greg Sterling at Search Engine Watch:
“Seen in a different way this is Google doing an interesting version of “social search.”"
As part of their commitment to help improve education, Google has just launched “Google for Educators“, featuring a suite of Google products with ideas on how they can best help teachers. They are also working with WestEd to set up the “GoogleTeacherAcademy“, a one-day event at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. At the end of the session, participants will become “Google Certified Teachers.”
The first Google Teacher Academy is on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, but as they are still taking baby steps, it is only open to Northern California educators of K-12. This includes teachers, administrators, and tutors. The event is free. If you are interested, you need to answer two questions (50 words or less) as well as create a one-minute video. See here. Applications must be submitted using Google’s online form and are due Oct. 22, 2006.
Add Writely, Google’s Web-based word processor to a Web-based spreadsheet application and voila – you have Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
Docs was released today – phew – just in time for the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, which incidentally, begins today.
On another but strangely related note:
Acomment made by Steve Ballmer yesterday according to ZDNet’s blog:
“I do think that we’re in a transition where software goes from something that’s in its pre-Internet day to something we call Live where you have click-to-run capability on a Web site….”
Hmmmmm, I love Billy boy, but what IS happening to his baby? I really wish Microsoft would stop talking about itselflong enough to just get out there and DO something – sort of like in the old days……proactive, not reactive Microsoft is so much more fun.