if you are in a different country, then google really really wants to show your their localized version. Which has different search results and, for my purposes, pretty much does suck.
Adib< /a> pointed me a while back to this fix: http://www.google.com/ncr will fix the problem and let’s me use google.com even if I am not in dot-com-land. Phew.
This will be interesting to watch. What will they do?
Review all things again?
Turn It off?
video.google: one of these projects that became a problem I would guess. It is unsurprising: When I discussed things them they seemed to have not a real understanding about the world out there. I had some concerns about hosting contents. And they basically had no answers. Nor did they seem to understand the problem. Those were in my case no copyright related. I think that
google is just a bunch of engineers that can not look further than beyond the warm and fuzzy feeling that they made something work. Which they do. And often is amazing. I love them for that.
But it also does not surprise me that they release something as immature as video.google. Any new company would be dead from day one if they would behave like video.google has so far.
BlogsNow got it’s first ‘special view’ today. I mentioned it before, but this is the first sign of it: I rewrote BlogsNow in Version 2 also to be able to whip up quick views that I feel might be interesting. Google Maps is an amazing web application. And, of course all the images being out there people will find interesting views and share them in their blogs. BlogsNow simply lists the most prominent ones. As usual millions of bloggers will collect some collective filter that is somewhat interesting. Since longitude and latitude coordinates do not mean much to most of us, I listed the closest airports instead.
google video is out today. In order to see the clips you need a googlified VLC player. Only for windows. Of course. Like everything from google.
With the title: modifier, you should find clips from a specific show. So I tried this for title: daily show and found a very good segment. It’s nice, but there is only one clip form the daily show in google video?
Please.
So I tried to look for jon stewart crossfire. A little bit of secondary information, but the actual event is not in there.
Looking in the normal and text based google: no problem, just found what I was looking for.
Looking in Videos for daft punk I find a commercial from Apple, a clip from some some kids and two unrelated spot.
I does amaze me: Text google is so great since it handles the long tail so well. But video.google. is lightyears away of being able to send me to clips that I would care about. It is surprising that they release something as immature. I don’t think that video.google does understand the brave new world of broadband connections out there. Which is surprising, since it is all pretty much based on the text based google system.
Sometimes one cubicle does not know what the other one does.
Speaking of cubicles
this link would bring you to a recruting video of theirs. It’s pretty boring the whole thing, the end however is quiet revealing.
Would you want to work for this guy?
those are his shoes.
Steve Ballmer says that MSN will be at par with google in six months. I wonder if they will run linux by then as well …
In case you really want to know when a famous person was born, you could also ask google:
just add ‘dob’ after their name.
It does make sense Google knows from what people are looking for. Cost them close to nothing to see how often people were looking for birthdays. So they just add it. The people will find,
eventually. There is just so many of them. They will find
everything. And then tell each other about it.
more at blognewschannel found via BlogsNow, of course.
of course all eyes are on google on this one. google is big, video will be big. 1+1 = 2. Easy to see for everybody. Yes? Kind of. The devil is in the detail. I think that google-video will not be that great.
Right now it is content driven. A real long tail market. And people expect content to be free. Google has the bandwidth and the server capacity. But for a publisher they have very very sketchy terms.
They think they don’t need to sort these things out. After all, they are google. Their Midas effect was never as it looked. All the projects that did not work out, simply dissappeared. Google Video might be one of them.
Right now this search returns a domain as the first result: www.all-in-one-business.com/adsense/
The real adsense page comes in only second.
Google directs a vast amount of internet traffic. Internet traffic can be made into money. One way or another. If you get it cheap enough there will be a profit. People only click on the first results they find. There is a wide rainbow of SEO (“Search Engine Optimization”) activities. From nice to criminal,
and everything in between.
One mean trick is it to hijack a page. Basically steal it. Google never really acknowledged the problem. Nor did they address it.
That’s why they are the victim of it themselves.