Hot Off the Presses
So, spurred on by the revelations that ex-Hitler Speech connoisseur Tom Costello from my old college TCD has got himself a new search engine that apparently returns more targetted gay porn results than Google,...
Category: Google
All Your Health Are Belong To Us
When you provide your information through Google Health, you give Google a license to use and distribute it in connection with Google Health and other Google services. However, Google may only use health information...
Architecture Astronomy
Microsoft is vacuuming up way too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their shady recruiters making unethical exploding offers to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you’re on my radar) paying untenable salaries to kids with...
Measuring Small Victories
Many months ago I emailed a friend in Google, peeved that it was impossible to get the US version of Google Maps to print out distances in metric. Apparently, someone eventually fixed this and...
Last.FM Now Offers Full Media Streaming, and Unauthorised, Convenient Downloads
Last.FM (née AudioScrobbler), an early leader of social music consumption, was bought out a while back by CBS Broadcasting Inc, a huge US media conglomerate. One would expect this to be a Very Bad...
Shell Game
Microsoft gets about 75 percent of its 40 billion dollars in revenue from licensing fees. A few years ago, it set up an Irish subsidiary called Round Island One Ltd. to own its 16...
Facebook Worth $15 Billion?!?
Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, valuing the rapidly uglifying website at an impressive $15 billion. Given that this comes shortly after Ebay finally admitted it overspent for Skype by...
Google Trending Kinky
Update to this. Apparently, Google’s not censoring this these terms, but whoever programmed the Trends UI didn’t follow the same protocols as the rest of the Google site. It works if you leave out...
Google Trending Pure
Show trends for searches relating to anal sex vs fellatio: Your terms – anal.sex, fellatio – do not have enough search volume to show graphs. Drat. The Google censors don’t seem to have heard,...
Google Got IMAP
Saw this and checked and, yes, it seems that after literally years of retarded obstinance, Google has finally enabled IMAP for its GMail email service. I just checked and the option appears on the...