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Google vs Yahoo in Goole Books Ngram Viewer

ramiro — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:17:56 +0000

In a recent post by Perl guru and Google Books Engineering Manager Jon Orwant, the Google Books Ngram Viewer was announced. a tool for visualizing data in the Google Books corpus.

The Ngram Viewer searches more than 500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish and lets you compare phrases from the datasets over time.

Google Listing Brands in SERPs

ramiro — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:19:10 +0000

Just noticed that Google now suggests branded searches when searching for terms like laptop, as seen in the screenshot below the paid listing.

How to Decipher a Country Code Top-Level Domain

ramiro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:11:53 +0000

To quickly find out which country a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) belongs to, go to google.ccTLD and see what it says. Works in many cases still including China.

Having Google at Home

ramiro — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:33:04 +0000

What happens when Google becomes your new roommate?

Via Google Blogscoped

Google's Wonder Wheel on Drupal

ramiro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:28:05 +0000

One of Google's current experiments enables participants to use options for restricting search results by certain criteria or to use tools like the wonder wheel for related query suggestions on Google's search result pages.

The Future of Film?

ramiro — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:00:08 +0000

I just watched this Trailer of The Hunt For Gollum, a 45 minute independent film, which was inspired by The Lord of the Rings. The Hunt For Gollum is announced to be released to the internet for free on May 3 2009. Will this be a role model for the film industry.

Getting Viral with Dots

ramiro — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:07:42 +0000

or how to tweet as a pantomime. TheMime shows how to get viral on Twitter with always posting nothing but three dots. TheMime certainly deserves his popularity on Twitter, as I haven't seen any other user with such a stunning consistency in high quality tweets.

The chart below created with TwitterCounter demonstrates that it clearly helps to be mentioned in tweets from Google and many others.

The Credit Crisis Explained

ramiro — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:37:59 +0000

A fantastic explanation and visualization of the credit crisis by Jonathan Jarvis.

Bash Accelerated Drupal Installation

ramiro — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:00:27 +0000

When developing Drupal modules or checking out modules I don't know yet, I run an instance of Drupal on my local machine. Sooner or later I feel the need to erase this installation and do a fresh install. The Drupal installation process is pretty straightforward and simple making it a good candidate for automating at least parts of it.

In the Drubuntu Drupal group I found this install script for Drupal that does not only install Drupal but also creates an operating system user, as well as apache2 and DNS configurations. A pretty useful script, but it does too much for my development needs.

Linking the Logo to the Home Page with JavaScript

ramiro — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:45:40 +0000

The logo of a Web site is not only important for branding but also as a navigational element, that many users expect to link to the home page. According to usability guru Jakob Nielsen the first of Ten Good Deeds in Web Design you can do is link your logo to the home page except you are on the home page.

Mr. Nielsen conducted many usability studies and has written groundbreaking articles and books on Web usability. Good reason for me to trust him when it comes to this topic, especially when it sounds completely plausible.