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 [...]
Looking back with street view
I’m becoming strangely addicted to Google Street View. This picture is from outside our house in Ceduna, where we lived in 1992-93. Kathleen was conceived there I doubt we’ll ever live on the foreshore anywhere ever again. I also doubt we’ll ever miss an opportunity again to buy a foreshore property for $130,000. Such is [...]
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. I originally assumed they must be high-powered satellite images. Incredibly, a team of people drove around the country – and this is a [...]
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 [...]
Google Finance Australia
It slipped past me in October that Google Finance began offering Australian share market prices and reports. One of my few reasons for using Yahoo previously had been its superior Australian market coverage. Now I can go to the cleaner look of Google and not worry about flickering ads. Google Finance incorporates the Google News [...]
