Just got an email from our Computer Science Department –
Hallo
Google besoek ons Dinsdag 12:00.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/computer-science-resources-for.html
Translated from Afrikaans:
Google is visiting us Tuesday 12:00.
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This is hilarious.
Specifically, the Ask Yahoo! service used Google search results and forgot to change the word Google to Yahoo!
It starts here: How many countries are there in the world? – Ask Yahoo!
Notice the line
We realized the chances of finding a Yahoo! category on the subject were about as small as Andorra, but we were confident the Google search results would point us in the right direction.
MMm… someone left the word Google there?
While the link actually points to a search.yahoo.com result page.
I then went into the Internet Archive (yes, Yahoo archives the entire internet…) and looked at this Ask Yahoo! page in the past.
And I found that the “Google search results” link originally pointed to “google.yahoo.com” search results.
http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=how+many+countries+in+the+world&hc=0&hs=1123
Strange, Yahoo used to have a google.yahoo.com subdomain …
google.yahoo.com in the past.
It used to just point to a Yahoo search page. But from 2002 onwards it just became a page with just “Do you yahoo?” on it before the subdomain was removed from yahoo in about 2003.
You can still see the “do you yahoo?” page archived here.
Google Calendar – probably the best online calendar you will find.
UPDATE: Get sms notifications of events on ANY calender! In fact, now you can schedule reminders for events on your personal calendar or any other calendar to which you’re subscribed.
NEW: Google calender mobile cellphone version!
Now, the main reason for this post is the SMS/text notifications you can setup for any event! And it costs you nothing!
Staying on schedule
You can set up automatic event reminders, including mobile phone notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool.
And they support all three networks in SA – MTN, CellC and Vodacom.
Poor Google has to foot the bill for all the SMSs sent. I wonder how viable it will turn out to be?
Well, Google Labs have brought out a nifty utility called Google Notebook.
It allows you to keep notes that are accessible from anywhere.
You can even make notes public…
Check it out here:
my notebook
Read more in my notes 🙂
I received a postcard from google 😉
Nah, it’s just from the Google Adsense Team 🙂
They sent all their Google Adsense users a verification pin to verify that there are real people at the address given! Something about fraud and what not.
That must have been quite a mailing list!
The Google Adsense Pin number provided is just a once off to verify that you are real and alive.
Google adsense is pretty cool, and extremely easy to use.
Here is an example of a half-banner:
This Code:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-1802553631602251";
google_ad_width = 234;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "234x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="6199676621";
google_color_border = "336699";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_url = "008000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
Produces this =>
Just paste it into your site, and you have ads. (Well, my ads in this case)
