Tag Archives: google

Google :-(

Posted on 2011/12/05 by

For past few days (days!!!) I’m not able to log into my account at Google (except GMail, thanks for that! – Voice/Blogger/Plus/Docs/… are all broken though). I’m either getting this message: Or I’m sent to infinite redirect loop. None of … Continue reading →

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Knol

Posted on 2008/07/24 by

There isn’t much to talk about Knol technology – it is either nicely engineered or missing (they probably thought that search is main tool for collaboration). Of course, many issues are already covered by others, but… My first look was … Continue reading →

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Rant on search crawlers

Posted on 2007/12/29 by

This isn’t even remotely funny. Every major search crawler provides different Accept-Encoding headers that make it bypass cache and always hit the backend. It is easy to hack Squid to disregard spaces between options (as IE puts them in headers: … Continue reading →

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Google does encyclopedia: Knol

Posted on 2007/12/14 by

It is all closed yet, announcement by VP Engineering tells us Google is launching their idea of encyclopedia – looking for people who can write authoritative articles. No words on licensing apart from “we want to disseminate it as widely … Continue reading →

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Weird wit by Google translation technology

Posted on 2007/10/23 by

I was translating some document from German to English, that had my surname in it. It got translated to ‘Beesley’, and I immediately thought of Angela Beesley, chair of Wikimedia Advisory Board. I started playing more, and did find, that: … Continue reading →

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MySQL 4.0 Google Edition

Posted on 2007/06/23 by

At the Conference I realized how much Wikipedia’s database operation had in common with Google – many rules and ideas of operation, problems faced, solutions imagined. Ah, there is one huge difference – they have brilliant engineers resolving quite a … Continue reading →

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To the #1 search engine

Posted on 2006/08/09 by

Dear #1 search engine, please, even for research purposes, do adhere to robots.txt, and even better, don’t use SSL interface to scrap / spider Wikipedia. We have single server for that purpose, and you seem to have somewhat more. On … Continue reading →

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