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The key will be for Google to do deals with WolframAlpha and Twitter Search and make sense of when to show what. Already beyond page rank
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16MayThe beauty of Google was that it always gave you a decent result. WolframAlpha is niche and rarely gives you a result, so destined for niche
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16MayGoogle experiments with a lot of interesting new features, but not all of them are publicly available. A post from Google's blog inadvertently revealed some experiments, by showing a list of iterations for the "search options" feature released this week.
The initial concepts for the "search options" panel included a lot of interesting enhancements:
* grouping search results by topic
* grouping search results by people
* showing page previews for search results
* showing only pages that you've seen or pages you haven't seen before
Google has previously tested an interface that grouped search results in predefined categories like reference or reviews, but it's not clear if "group by topic" works in a similar way or it's a different approach. To search pages you've seen before, there's Google Web History, but it's very slow and the ranking algorithm needs a lot of improvement.
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16May
Here's an unrelated tech tip:
If you access Gmail using a program on your computer (like Mail.app or Outlook) sometimes you'll get an alert telling you that Gmail has rejected your password.
It turns out that there's a hidden link Google provides that lets you do a Captcha test to prove that you're a human. It doesn't change your password, it just resets the flag that Google was using to block remote access.
Anyway, it works for me, every time, and I figured you'd want to know about it. Please don't ask me other technical questions because I'm an untrained savant, unlikely to have any other information other than this.
Thanks. And good luck.
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16May
The rules of a great billboard (great = cost effective) are as follows:
1. "Next exit"
2. EZ off and on
3. Free parking
4. Major thoroughfare
5. Take action now
6. Credible promiseBillboards are useful for building brand trust, but only if you run them for a very long time and over a wide area. In other words, it's an act of faith.
This billboard, on the other hand, probably started paying for itself before they finished painting it.
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16MayWolfram|Alpha launched yesterday and it's an useful complement to a general-purpose search engine like Google. Wolfram|Alpha doesn't search the web, it uses data from authoritative databases and an engine powered by Mathematica to obtain the results.
"Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity," explains the "about" page.
Even if the homepage's simplicity reminds you of Google, it's a good idea to check the examples page before entering a query. Alpha can't handle any kind of query, so it's important to know its strengths: advanced Math calculations (graphs, equations, prime numbers computations, matrix operations), conversions, facts about weather, population, food, minerals, people, places.
You can enter simple things like numbers, dates, words, HTML color codes, chemical formulas and you'll get a lot of interesting information. The service shows intuitive visualizations and comparisons to better understand the information.
Wolfram|Alpha could be a great way to expand Google Calculator and other Google OneBoxes.
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16May
Slideshow JS is a free JavaScript library which helps creating an image slideshow with ease.
It is totally configurable via markup & does not require any scripting. Although the download package comes with various styles, the look & feel of the slideshow can be completely customized.
The library is built with jQuery & it is unobtrusive. It offers several options like:
- number of seconds each image will be displayed
- if the images will be displayed automatically or manually
- image counter & controls activation
- if the images will be displayed randomly or in an order
- & more..
P.S. Don’t let the blury images in the demo fool you. With quality images, the script offers a nice presentation.
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16May"wolframalpha isn't sure what to do with your input" even trying sciency things :/
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16May
Someone, somewhere thought this would be a good idea. You can almost picture the pitch, probably born in committee:
I know! I know! Let’s put a giant shark… I mean a GIANT shark in a movie with, with, with a giant octopus! The biggest octopus you’ve ever seen, no, even bigger than that! And then they fight each other! It’ll be great, and we’ll get some big name stars, too!
And it will go straight to the home video market.
[via YesButNoButYes]
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16May
Can it be possible? A “moderfied” Mater that does a drift race thought the streets of Tokyo against an import? Check it out:
[Via Jalopnik]
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