The Google Homepage features a guy in number of different flamboyant costumes. If you’re wondering who Google’s honoring today, it’s a not a scientist or mathematician, as usual, but a musician: Freddie Mercury.
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It’s the end of the road for 10 perpetual-beta Google products: Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki, and Subscriber Links.
Were you using any of these? And was it a good idea to kill them when they could have just shunted them off to a less-accesible corner of the Google website?
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If you went directly to google.com today, you see a doodle on the Google homepage honoring Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinian author who was a hypertext visionary. What do you think?
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If you’ve been to google.com today, you might have noticed the Google logo looks like a chalkboard. It’s Google’s way of honouring Pierre de Fermat, a French mathematician famous for his Last Theorem, of which the proof was supposedly to long to be able to be written in a book of his. What’s your verdict: [...]
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Google just bought Motorola’s mobility division for $12.5 billion.
This is somewhat strange news coming just a day or two after Motorola announced it would be charging royalties on Android phones for use of its patents.
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You’ve probably seen Google’s homepage today (July 20) with the logo spelt with pea pods. That’s a reference to the birthday of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, who experimented with plant hybridization.
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Skipfish is a new security scanning tool from Google that tries to find vulnerabilities in your webserver.
It can be installed either locally or on your webserver.
The easiest place to install Skipfish is on Linux, so I’ll go over installing it on Ubuntu.
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Google released a free website scanning tool called Skipfish. Skipfish accesses your entire website’s URLs and tries to find problems from a huge list of tens of different security problems.
Click through for more.
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A number of sources are reporting Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited site in the US.
Read on to find out why I think this is a loss for the open Internet.
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