who will explain GOOGLE to me?

(sorry this is a bit pinefoxy: but even if i google "spiders" i may not get what i'm after!)

first Mark have you submitted your URL to Google? it does take a while.. another tip Submit Express will forward your URL for indexing on 40 search tools for free.

another tip - add a META TAGS to your website - this will improve how the description of your site gets indexed by spiders, you can add in key words to your site that the spider picks up see here for an automatic meta tag generator

another tip get your URL indexed at dmoz - the open directory many search engines and tools use this as an additional database,

The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others.

...and the Google directory is based on dmoz. [Also getting on this database will influence/improve your Google ranking and some writers have mentioned this will influence the frequency on how often your site gets spidered - Google does index certain sites more frequently - also getting on dmoz/google web directory - will also get you referrals from Yahoo powered by Google searches - the yahoo search default draws from a partial not full Google database - so make sure you register with dmoz]

..at the moment according to the Google toolbar you blog is not indexed on Google.

Google index acts strange sometimes it indexes my blog on a daily basis and then reverts back to an index that is 3-8 weeks ago. They must be experimenting with how they index/spider websites.

my next question is on another thread cf Everything Top Level

of course being an idiot it now strikes seems to me somehow cheapie cheating and counter-punXoR not waiting for the googlespiders to do their work in googlegod's own time

http://maps.google.com/maps

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/

(presumably this problem also occurs in the American version)

that link you posted killed my firefox.

The aps are nice and clear but walking routes (canal towpaths etc.) are not marked. they should allow overlaying of wlaking and cycling data.

someone on slashdot has pointed out that it doesn't even understand things like 'Birmingham New Street'. but then slashdot / america thinks Sellafield is in London...

Lack of landmarks = a bit crap.

http://www.google.com/images/holidaytext.gif

PC gone mad, again

You can always click on the logo to get an explanation. And in this case:

http://www.google.com/doodle13.html

So celebrate already.

I understand the red ribbon but not so much the stick figure construction workers shooting each other from cannons.

it's a cannon shooting off a ribbon?

There are more to come (hence the "2: ???" in Ned's link)

The construction figures are decorating the logo.

someone call OSHA

oh they are tying a bow how cute

http://www.google.com/doodle13.html

THEY ARE WHITEWASHING THE O

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8021/imageuploadimageeu0.gif

http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/mil/ww2/konyv/g/goebbels.jpg

Weirdest thing. I just tried to google somebody who I knew vaguely at university. So I did ""Dude's Name" hull uni" and the first image that comes up is from DJ Martian's blog.

http://lh4.google.com/zurich.office.images/R86oeVQozUI/AAAAAAAAAfI/SI5yIyYxf4U/226_F5_meeting_egg.jpg?imgmax=1024

googles zurich offices omg

http://picasaweb.google.com/zurich.office.images/ZurichOfficePhotos

http://www.google.com/logos/laser08.gif

googles zurich offices omg

http://picasaweb.google.com/zurich.office.images/ZurichOfficePhotos

-- jhøshea, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:12 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

it's totally fucked up how google and only google gets to pretend its still web boom 2000 era

google looks awesome today!

I am not sure where it is now..my name Marissa Marchant comes up alot on these boards.
here is a comment I just left...

Hi, I don't know if anyone is reading this. It is better to sing well then to sing on tune all the time.
Even the best sing off once in a while. I don't have a pitch shifter nor do I want one. I don't want to rely on talent buttons.
You must read my gig section, if you don't start supporting artists by writing positive messages about them all over the internet I will change my stage name and titles and you will never find me again.
You people have two months. I will get a new breed of appreciative people. Comments..like ..." I am growing tired of Marissa cause she isn't a celebrity." these are mentally abusive comments coming from people who are lowlife.
If you google search me, you will see why we don't have good music on the radio anymore.
People are truly abusive to artists..and not supportive of them.
]the radio sucks and it is because of the masses..they suck..
the only people who suck and who sing off key all the time ,, are the masses..
Marissa
-- marissa marchant (freakvo...), August 2nd, 2005.

Please notify all people on this site, that they can't just abuse artists and get away with it....

-- marissa marchant, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:06 (2 years ago) Link

not liking the new google fave icon.
much prefer the capital 'G' as opposed to this shabby gloopy looking 'g' that they have started to use.

Oh, that's what that is! Totally agree - it's hideous.

mark you used to be much more interesting

oh

mark you used to be much more interesting

you lie.

Google Favicon

ah ha.
need to use the search better.
ahem.

OK, every time I try to access/use Google, it gets blocked by Websense for reasons of "Sex"

Do some work then?

lol joeks skiving

It's better now.

I can't figure out what the main Google thread is. Anyway, I love the Saul Bass graphics today (two different ones that I've seen).

These FUCKING MORONS couldn't figure out how to get the search bar in your calendar to function as well as, oh, fucking grep.

I'm looking for when I'm supposed to change the water filters in my house. I type in "filter" and get nothing, and curse myself for not having been responsible enough to take 45 seconds to put this recurring event in my calendar 6 months ago when we moved in.

after putting in an all-new "time to change the filters!" event, I look at the month view for May and see a thing at the end of the month "change filters: air, sink, fridge..." how is this possible? I searched for filter.

Turns out if you leave off the s it won't find it. has to be the full string. utter garbage, no excuse, this company's going to shit.

did you try searching with your voice

The arseholes also can't figure out how to enable saved username rearranging in chrome, so it always defaults to that test account you use once in a blue moon because it's first alphabetically. And then you type the first letter of your preferred account ( say 't'), choose it from the dropdown and log in... and it offers to remember the password for the username 't' for you.

lol

https://www.google.com/search?q=edward+hopper

didn't even notice till i saw it spelled out on twitter :/

Hell I don't notice now. What am I missing?

Yeah, I don't see anything out of the ordinary myself.

It looks like the first image result is AI-generated

did mark s ever figure out google

Ah, yeah, it is AI, according to the translation of the page it's on.

Ha oh dear.

I guess the future will be filled by fake works of art. Can't wait to auto-generate 100 Picasso paintings to hang up around my house. Maybe display them on screens so I can generate 100 new Picassos every day.

The first image also has an AI site watermark on it

It's also incredibly shit

lol yes

i did not

for those of you without kids or younger people in your life, 99% of kids will just take whatever extract google puts in the top search result as absolute gospel truth about any subject

that's right

i was thinking about similar with Youtube, searching for history docs brings up all kinds of crank shit and i'm sure there's a chunk of the audience that just takes it all at face value

nobody even clicks through, who has the time? just look at the screencap and the title, there’s your war of the roses you fuck

this thread is kind of an amazing series of historical snapshots.

as is generally the case with snapshots i look bad in all of them