Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
How Search Works (video)
The life span of a Google query is usually less than half a second, yet involves quite a few steps that must be completed before you see the most relevant results.
Searching Google for Medical Info Helps Patients AND Doctors
Doctors will realize that patients are doing the best thing for themselves by going online before the office visit.Clinicians will need to learn for themselves which are the best sources of patient-oriented Internet-based information so that when the patient does go in confused by wrong or poorly organized online data, the efforts can be redirected - not dismissed.
I have a website with disease specific text and diagrams that I often print for my patients. The majority of them find the information very helpful. It also serves as a reminder of what was discussed during the visit.
References:
Googling Symptoms Helps Patients and Doctors. TIME.
"Stop Googling your symptoms. Doctors are sick of it" http://goo.gl/R3tTA - On the contrary, it shows interest, which is good.
OK, Doc, let's see how your diagnosis and treatment plan compares to WebMD (cartoon) http://goo.gl/Brzkh
Google Search by Voice: "How to... Cure... Brain Freeze?"
Google Search by Voice: Ice Cream.
The first page of Google results consists almost entirely of content farm articles - eHow, WikiHow, etc.
Ice-cream headache (brain freeze, cold-stimulus headache) is a form of headache commonly associated with quick consumption of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream. The scientific name is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia which means "nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion".
Google search story: One woman’s journey to get back into shape
This is a story of one woman’s journey to get back into shape. It shows the difficulties of sticking to a workout routine, and the empowerment that comes with reaching—and even exceeding your goals. It highlights the many tools and tricks that make Google a great workout companion.
References:
Our latest search story: run on. Google.
The Real Life Social Network - presentation by research lead for social at Google
This presentation is from Paul Adams, research lead for social at Google (embedded below). He works on Buzz and YouTube, and presumably, whatever is next from Google, including the rumored "Google Me."
Read more: On Facebook, Google, and Our Evolving Social Mores Online by John Battelle
Read more: On Facebook, Google, and Our Evolving Social Mores Online by John Battelle
The Real Life Social Network v2
View more documents from Paul Adams.
App Inventor is a new tool by Google that makes it easy to create apps for Android phones
App Inventor is a new website by Google that makes it easy for anyone — programmers and non-programmers — to create mobile applications for Android-powered phones (and soon, tablets).
To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.
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One Google search has the same energy cost as turning on a 100-watt light bulb for an hour
From the New Scientist:
Google's data centres contain nearly a million servers, each drawing about 1 kilowatt of electricity. So every hour Google's engine burns through 1 million kilowatt-hours. Google serves up approximately 10 million search results per hour, so one search has the same energy cost as turning on a 100-watt light bulb for an hour.
References:
Search engines' dirty secret - opinion - 06 April 2010 - New Scientist.
Image source: OpenClipArt, public domain.
Google Talks: Conan O'Brien at Google, giving their Vice-President of Engineering a hard time
AtGoogleTalks — May 07, 2010 — "Conan O'Brien may have been "legally prohibited from being funny on television," but thanks to TBS he'll be back on the air very soon. Conan and Andy Richter stop by Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for a morning of hilarity. This event took place on May 5, 2010.
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host and comedian. He served as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, followed by The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien from 2009 to 2010. Prior to his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the animated series The Simpsons."
"Google don’t have a social media policy"
From Lunch with Google and Publishers Australia:"Google don’t have a social media policy – their employees can be on any SM site they choose and use them in any manner"
Google don’t have a social media policy – their employees can be on any social media sites they choose and use them in whatever manner they see fit. How about that? Think of all the secrets worth billions that could get out but don’t. A great example of trusting your employees.
Back in the distant 2005, a Google employee was dismissed after commenting on Google corporate culture and future products on his personal blog: http://bit.ly/bLuxwj
A lot of people commented that this widely-reported mishap could have been prevented if Google had an adequate guidance for bloggers/employees.
Twitter comments:
@DrVes @dreamingspires If Google has no SM policy for employees http://bit.ly/cK0PWq - Did they mention Mark Jen at all? http://bit.ly/bLuxwj
@dreamingspires Interesting - no mention.of Mark Jen (this was a conversation post presentations). She did mention that sometimes slipups happen, eg leaving calender up (briefly) after a presentation - this was a convo w a Google person in adsense/adwords part of the business. She mentioned how google has gone from small business in cramped office to corporation - has been w Google 5 yrs & experienced both. The culture is now changing less freedom and global - must say the google people were great - ordinary sydneysiders & a frenchman!). If Google has no SM policy for employees http://bit.ly/cK0PWq they will still fire employees for inapproriate blogging http://bit.ly/bLuxwj
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Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
Google Sync for your phone
Google Sync for your phone generally works very well and makes switching phones at the end of your contract as easy as possible.
Google Sync for your phone
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync
As with any service using push technology, Google Sync increases usage of your device's battery. On most devices, Google Sync uses the Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol. When setting up a new Exchange ActiveSync account on your device, existing data may be removed from your phone (it did not in my case however). Please make sure to back up before you set up Google Sync.
Here are the instructions for Windows Mobile:
Mail, Calendar & Contacts Sync: Setting Up Your Windows Mobile Phone for Google Sync
Google Sync for your phone
http://www.google.com/mobile/sync
As with any service using push technology, Google Sync increases usage of your device's battery. On most devices, Google Sync uses the Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol. When setting up a new Exchange ActiveSync account on your device, existing data may be removed from your phone (it did not in my case however). Please make sure to back up before you set up Google Sync.
Here are the instructions for Windows Mobile:
Mail, Calendar & Contacts Sync: Setting Up Your Windows Mobile Phone for Google Sync
"This is a profile page about me" (or not) - fix your Google profile
From Google support:
Image source: Google profile.
"Once you create your profile, Google automatically suggests links to some of the Google products you currently use. You can choose to display one or more of these links on your public profile.
Google will automatically detect which of the links are profiles, and distinguish them from other websites to help you better consolidate your identity on the Web. When you edit these links, you'll see the option 'This is a profile page about me' selected by default."
Image source: Google profile.
You will notice that all your Twitter accounts will be pre-selected to be the "true you" on the web because Twitter automatically adds the "me" relative to the HTML of your tweets. It feels a bit like Twitter "hijacks" your identity. It is good for SEO and Twitter since the profiles rank high in searches for your name but this should definitely be an opt-in feature rather than default.
Google co-founder: "I'm an optimist. People think I'm naive but I wouldn't have started a search engine in 1998 if I wasn't"
Sergey Brin: "Well, once again, look: I'm an optimist. I want to find a way to really work within the Chinese system and provide more and better information.
So, I think a lot of people think I'm naive, and that may well be true, but I wouldn't have started a search engine in 1998 if I wasn't naive in that way."
References:
TED Blog: Sergey Brin on Google's China decision.
References:
TED Blog: Sergey Brin on Google's China decision.
Image source: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc., Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
Google Super Bowl Ad: simple, told a story, demonstrated features
@chrisbrogan: "The Google ad was absolutely perfect. Illustrative, told a story, demonstrated features, and maintained simplicity."
See more at http://www.youtube.com/searchstories
See more at http://www.youtube.com/searchstories
Google Search in Gmail Adds Useful Shortcuts To Your Inbox
A lot of Google's most popular search features were included in this update of Gmail search box:
- Dictionary definitions: use a keyword like "define" in English and you'll see the first definition of the word, with a link to the dictionary from which it came.
- Spelling corrections: if you mistype something in your search, Google’s spell checking software will automatically ask if you meant a more common spelling of that word (especially helpful when looking up a new word).
- Calculations: type in an arithmetic expression and you'll get the result. In this case the "Paste result" option from the result's pop-up menu will actually paste the result of the computation.
- Local results: you can search for a particular place or for things near a particular place (map results will show up in a few weeks — they're a little broken by our recent switch to use https). The "More info" link will take you to the place page.
- Weather: just type "weather" followed by the city and state, zip code, or city and country.
- News: if your query matches something in the news, we'll show you one hit and an indication of how many related articles there are, with a link to go see them.
References:
Improved Google Search in Labs
- Dictionary definitions: use a keyword like "define" in English and you'll see the first definition of the word, with a link to the dictionary from which it came.
- Spelling corrections: if you mistype something in your search, Google’s spell checking software will automatically ask if you meant a more common spelling of that word (especially helpful when looking up a new word).
- Calculations: type in an arithmetic expression and you'll get the result. In this case the "Paste result" option from the result's pop-up menu will actually paste the result of the computation.
- Local results: you can search for a particular place or for things near a particular place (map results will show up in a few weeks — they're a little broken by our recent switch to use https). The "More info" link will take you to the place page.
- Weather: just type "weather" followed by the city and state, zip code, or city and country.
- News: if your query matches something in the news, we'll show you one hit and an indication of how many related articles there are, with a link to go see them.
References:
Improved Google Search in Labs
Google Nexus One - Official YouTube Channel
This is the official YouTube channel of Google Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/googlenexusone
Nexus One: "Web meets phone"
Nexus One - Google Voice
See all videos here.
Nexus One: "Web meets phone"
Nexus One - Google Voice
See all videos here.
Hard drive in the cloud: Use Google Docs to upload any file up to 250 MB
From Google Docs Blog:
Google Docs we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. You'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer -- all you need is an Internet connection.
You can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year.
Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs.
Video: Google Docs in Plain English.
I frequently use Google Docs for a variety of projects. It has some limitations but overall is a very useful service. Recommended.
References:
Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs
Google Docs we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. You'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer -- all you need is an Internet connection.
You can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year.
Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs.
Video: Google Docs in Plain English.
I frequently use Google Docs for a variety of projects. It has some limitations but overall is a very useful service. Recommended.
References:
Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs
AP Video: Google Nexus One Phone Based on the Latest Android OS
Google showed off the features of its new Nexus One mobile phone at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Some analysts say it could challenge Apple iPhone's market domination.
See more at google.com/phone
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