Filtering Google Search Results by Date
A Google search on all but the most obscure of terms return literally thousands of plausible results. There are times that this is very handy, and one of the reasons you likely turned to Google in the first place. But what if you were interested in results from a recent period? Time sensitive items, such [...]
Accessing Sites that are Down
Its happened to most everyone at one point or another, a friend sends you a link to check out or a Google Search returns a perfect result, but upon clicking the link you find that the page cannot be loaded. It happens. The servers or networks that host the site are clogged, the page could [...]
Threat of US spooks haunt Google
It wasn’t too long ago that Google put it’s full attention towards cloud-computing, targeting businesses and universities to utilize Gmail and other Google Apps as their core infrastructure. Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada did just that – saving millions and months up front and hundreds of thousands in annual operating [...]
The sky is not the limit for Google
Google has teamed up with astronomers at a number of observatories to bring us their latest webapp, Google Sky. Similar to the notions behind Google Maps & Earth, Google Sky provides a way for everyone to explore the universe, whether or not E.T. is hiding in your closet. Unlike traditional telescopes, Google also projects the [...]
Urban Planning 2.0, Nanaimo and Google
Time.com has an insightful piece on a collaboration between the city of Nanaimo and Google. The city’s planning department has been feeding the search giant information on it’s public infrastructure for the last five years. Having launched just a few weeks ago, Nanaimo is being hailed as the “Google Capital of the World.” The site [...]
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