Introduction to and history of online advertising.

GT deals with translation on the basis not that every sentence is different, but that anything submitted to it has probably been said before. Whatever a language may be in principle, in practice it is used most commonly to say the same things over and over again. There is a good reason for that. In the great basement that is the foundation of all human activities, including language behaviour, we find not anything as abstract as “pure meaning”, but common human needs and desires.

At some point between then and now, my QR code image got lodged in the second position of Google Images’ search results for “qr code”. As a result, it became one of the most requested pages on my site, regularly clocking in several hundred requests a day. But what happened next defies rationale explanation.

Extension for Safari to replace Google+ Profiles in Google search results with the most relevant social profiles

Google Maps do not display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.

Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free!

We’re quickly figuring out how to navigate our trail of data — don’t say anything private on a Facebook wall, keep your secrets out of e-mail, use cash for illicit purchases. The vast majority of it, though, is worthless to us and a pretty good exchange for frequent-flier miles, better search results, a fast system to qualify for credit, finding out if our babysitter has a criminal record and ads we find more useful than annoying. Especially because no human being ever reads your files. As I learned by trying to find out all my data, we’re not all that interesting.

In this blog post I want to continue the let's help make your day-to-day life better path. I'll share three advanced segments that I personally find to be of value in the process of moving from data to actionable insights. I hope you'll download and use these segments, but more than that I hope you'll learn how to create delightful analytics segments with the options you have at your disposal.

Are you looking for a basic understanding of how UIs are created on the web or who wants to brush up outdated UI development knowledge? Or maybe you'd like to learn more about the medium you're designing for and gain basic tools for prototyping designs? Do you want a better understanding of the web and how Google makes the pages that are its face to the world? If so, "HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from the Ground Up" is for you.

This Google cheat sheet [PDF] has a nice overview of all the popular search operators that are supported in Google. Other than this “official” list, Google also supports an undocumented search operator called AROUND(n) that will help you find documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n.’

When it launched, millions of us grabbed free Gmail addresses, and associated Calendar, Docs, Voice, and other apps followed. But personal domains are cheap, and claiming an @yourname.com address to use with Google Apps is easier than ever. Here's why you should.

Simple printing application for Google my-maps, hopefully Google will fix the poor printing, since sadly somtimes we do need to print out the maps we create (or borrow) from somebody else.

This blog post is a starter guide that outlines the steps I personally undertake most commonly when handed the keys to the data for a website. 
I want to share where in your web analytics data you can find valuable starting points, even without any context about the site / business / priorities. Reports to look at, KPIs to evaluate, inferences to make.
I hope you'll benefit from my humble experience. Let's go!

Easily incorporate computational thinking into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lessons, examples, and programs. For more resources, including discussion forums and news, visit our ECT Discussion Forums.

RT @abesh: Trying to export contacts from Google to Facebook yields this warning : http://www.google.com/mail/help/contacts_export_confi ...

Interactive video built in HTML5 and featuring music from Arcade Fire.

"This is a pretty unusual UI element. Gmail may be the only application using anything like it." Opinions vs. Data: http://j.mp/aBkEoC

What will live with me as much as any individual session, though, is the place itself. Google's home is a campus, and being there is a "total" experience: if you work there, you can enjoy a gymnasium, sunny courtyards, beach volleyball, endless tech toys, laundry facilities and three excellent meals a day on site. As one employee explained it, workers are treated "like adults"—trusted to work and play hard, pursuing their projects in their own time. In another sense, of course, this also means they are treated like schoolchildren, or at least like members of a politely paternal institution—liberated from mundane concerns the better to learn and perform.

Google Reader's “explore” feed has proven to be a more effective discovery tool. It displays the most-shared items on Reader, filtered by the user’s interests. Reader determines which popular items are relevant to you by analyzing the types of feeds you’re already subscribed to. It’s shockingly effective: I’m often unsettled by how well Google’s algorithms determine my tastes and interests. The “explore” feed may be the most effective news discovery service you’ve never used.

Our applications help you take control of your inbox.

How to Save the News: Google's relationship with print media. Fantastic longform journalism. http://bit.ly/cTOrBa #media #google #newspapers

Finally lost my oogle http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=159001 #gmail
– Prash (pgoricha) http://twitter.com/pgoricha/statuses/14839658929

Google faces challenges from the likes of Facebook and Twitter for getting quick, accurate, relevant answers to questions. Yet it is streets ahead of other search engines in understanding the requirements behind what can be quite ambiguous search queries. How does it do it? An constant schedule of over 500 improvements to its algorithm each year.

Lawrence Lessig's essay on how copyright laws in the US are ill-equipped to deal with emerging (and indeed established) technologies.

"China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google."

"At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. It is a Rashomon-like term: highly subjective and vitally important."

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

"Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any type, and run-time reflection. It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language. It's a joy to use."

"How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright."

Gruber on why the iPhone needs a decent challenger, and why Android isn't yet it.

Guide to Google Analytics from Smashing Magazine.

Primer from Google on their products/services for business - analytics, Website Optimizer etc.

Google to develop an open source operating system.

Some obvious and not-so-obvious tips for using Gmail.

The most comprehensive guide to Google Wave I've seen at this early stage. Particularly good guide to the new lingo we'll all have to learn.

Current digital communication methods mimic offline comms. Can Google Wave influence a paradigm shift?

It'd take a lot to wrench me away from my super-customised Firefox setup, but I'm fascinated to see how the extensions for Google Chrome take off.