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G to the g: Google’s New Favicon

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

As a regular visitor to Google, the new lower case ‘g’ stood out, like a sore thumb today! The favicon is the small icon that shows to the left of your web address in your browser. For many years now, Google have had the upper case G, with the green, blue and red borders.
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Tags: Geekism

Montage a Google - Create Art from Google Images

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Above is a great piece of wall art, created by Montage-a-Google (A Project of Grant Robinson)
The system searches for keyword that you enter on Google images, and arranges them into a montage/collage of images.
Technorati Tags: google, art, motage, grant robinson, images, web

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Tags: Art · Interesting

Google Streetview: Gets Scarier (If that really is a word)

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Technorati Tags: google, streetview, technology, web

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Tags: Interesting

Google Streetview - New From Google + Top Ten

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

This is one of the many images that you can see on google streetview, a recent service from google. Streetview is a new extention of google maps, which allows you to virtually Walk down streets, and see a full 3d View of them.
Google created this imagery by using a van, with a 3D camera attached, [...]

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Tags: Interesting

Google Filed patent to teach thier robots to read

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

“Recognizing Text In Images” served as the main idea for a Google patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization.
This isnt just a basic OCR service.. This involves googles web spider crawling images and videos, and where they contain text, listing this as search results..
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Tags: Technical / Software Development