davidhconline.co.uk » google http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog Blog Sat, 26 May 2007 12:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Google Snaps Up Stats Tool from Swedish Charity http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/19/google-snaps-up-stats-tool-from-swedish-charity/ http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/19/google-snaps-up-stats-tool-from-swedish-charity/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:39:33 +0000 davidhc http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/19/google-snaps-up-stats-tool-from-swedish-charity/ A stats program that began as a teaching aid for a university lecture has just been bought by Google for an undisclosed sum. The statistics tool, Trendalyzer, was developed by a professor and his son at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute. The professor gets no payment for his work, while Google plans to collect together all the worlds stats.

This seems quite a cool program. Using Web 2.0 technologies makes the statistics much more friendly to use

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]]> http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/19/google-snaps-up-stats-tool-from-swedish-charity/feed/ 0 Google: we will anonymize our server logs!!!! http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/15/google-we-will-anonymize-our-server-logs/ http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/15/google-we-will-anonymize-our-server-logs/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:24:31 +0000 davidhc http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/15/google-we-will-anonymize-our-server-logs/ When you search on Google, Google will collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we’re pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we’re legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs.

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]]> http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/15/google-we-will-anonymize-our-server-logs/feed/ 0 Quickmaps – Draw all over Google Maps http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/12/quickmaps-draw-all-over-google-maps/ http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/12/quickmaps-draw-all-over-google-maps/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:14:18 +0000 davidhc http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/12/quickmaps-draw-all-over-google-maps/ Quickmaps gives you a bunch of tools, including a couple dozen markers, line and doodle tools for drawing, and text labels that you can place anywhere on a Google map.
I used it for the previous post.

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]]> http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/12/quickmaps-draw-all-over-google-maps/feed/ 0 Google doesn’t know how to spend all its cash http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/google-doesnt-know-how-to-spend-all-its-cash/ http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/google-doesnt-know-how-to-spend-all-its-cash/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:53:33 +0000 davidhc http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/google-doesnt-know-how-to-spend-all-its-cash/ Google is accumulating mounds of cash from operations, but Chief Executive Eric Schmidt appeared to rule out seeking big mergers or making other dramatic changes in how the company uses it. Are they a little bit clueless about how to spend all their cash?

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]]> http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/google-doesnt-know-how-to-spend-all-its-cash/feed/ 0 Dugg: Google’s buses help its workers beat the rush http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/dugg-googles-buses-help-its-workers-beat-the-rush/ http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/dugg-googles-buses-help-its-workers-beat-the-rush/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:42:31 +0000 davidhc http://davidhconline.co.uk/blog/2007/03/11/dugg-googles-buses-help-its-workers-beat-the-rush/ In Silicon Valley, known for its heinous traffic, Google the search engine giant has turned itself into Google, the mass transit operator.

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