Google Chrome and broccoli
A million people across the world are probably writing about Google Chrome right now, so I decided not to.
While out for a walk tonight I resolved to write about the first thing which came into my head, and quite randomly that happened to be broccoli.
This reminded me of a Year 11 Biblical Studies class at Lourdes College in 1983 when the teacher called us individually into a room and asked us to say the first word which came into our head when he said “Jesus”.
Most of us automatically said “God”. A troubled child might have said “Judas” or “crucifixion”.
There was one nervous boy left to enter the booth and he asked us anxiously what was going on.
The teacher had said not to tell anyone the question, but he hadn’t said we couldn’t give the answer, so I told the boy to say “fish”, thinking that was about the most stupid thing he could utter. Read more
Late mail: Gmail was down
Most Gmail users around the globe have commented already on Gmail being down for a few hours.
Apparently Twitter was flooded with Gmail comments and on Google itself the system failure was one of the most searched terms over that period.
For Australians, or me at least, it was only a minor inconvenience. I noticed the problem when I arrived at work about 7.15am and the service was restored within half an hour.
The failure must have been overnight.
Google Street View Australia
This picture shows the Google Street View of Commercial Street, Mount Gambier. The visual mapping service was launched in Australia today.
The sheer enormity of the task is quite overwhelming to contemplate. Read more
Favorite bookmarks
I use Google Bookmarks with the Firefox extension GMarks.
The picture shows my “most used” links since I started browsing in Ubuntu about two weeks ago.
It’s not a long-term record, but it’s pretty indicative. I check my own sites regularly (the top two) to see if any comments have been made on posts. Read more
Google pagerank zero
I noticed last week that my Google pagerank had dropped from four to zero. I assumed it was something to do with shifting my blog from the domain root to a directory.
That’s probably the case, because the Google webmaster guidelines state: “Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.”
I suppose while the robots were crawling the new blog they still had records of the old one and a computer determined it was a duplication.
Google is still indexing my site. I have submitted a request to have the zero ranking reconsidered.
Google launches wiki
Google has added another feature for selected users: a wiki or collaborative site builder. This follows the juggernaut’s acquisition of Jotspot 16 months ago.
It’s branded as Google Sites and is currently available only to Google Apps users. Google Apps requires the user to own a domain. I have my email for gorey.com.au hosted with Google, which gives me multiple accounts and a Gmail interface.
I’ve already set up a GoogleSite for Gorey family history. I transferred content and had this running in less than an hour.
There are several themes to select from and various optional features with the promise of more to come.
As with everything Google the search feature is terrific.
What can it do? In essence, multiple users can work together to build a site within a standard framework. The edits and revisions are clearly marked.
The design is WYSIWYG. Images can be easily inserted and files attached.
I haven’t experimented with this yet, but Google Docs can also be embedded.
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