Posts Tagged ‘google’

Google translation

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Saturday
Wakatta means “saturday”. Understand?

And this is why I don’t trust Google

Friday, October 12th, 2007


From the Google Groups home page.

Hm. I’ve been searching for a lot of Rails stuff. I keep track of mac news, yeah. Active Merchant? Hm, I remember finding out about that. Harry Potter? Not for a while, but I’ve searched a couple of times. Nethack? Check. Roguelike? That would be text-based computer games, like Nethack and a bunch of MUDs. I’ve been reading a lot about them. Game design? Obviously, I take an interest.

Nice to see it all spelled out. I wonder what else they’ve got?

Who the fuck wants to leave this kind of a trail?

Google Maps Street View

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

What do you get when you spend billions of dollars hiring tens of thousands of the smartest programmers on earth, and then tell them to go improve your map application - which is already far and away the best available?

. Doesn’t work in too many places outside San Fran right now but jesus it’s impressive.