Showing posts with label Web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web. Show all posts

Monday, November 13, 2006

Ye Olde Google Earth

"Google offering historical maps on Google Earth.

Includes : World Globe 1790, North America 1733, United States 1833, Lewis and Clark 1814, New York 1836, San Francisco 1853, South America 1787, Buenos Aires 1892, Asia 1710, Tokyo 1680, Middle East 1861, England, Wales 1790, London 1843, Paris 1716, Africa 1787, Australia Southeast 1844

In the olden days, they didn't even know where their nearest Milky Way neighbors were......No Way....Way.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Wiki Self Correction 2 - Cocky Academic Critic 0

" Halavais hypothesized that the obscure errors would "languish online for some time. Instead the Wikipedia volunteers eliminated all the fabrications within three hours of being posted.

And the volunteer checkers even admonished Halavais for making stuff up."

And he didn't even post about religion or politics....Behold the jealous, protective power of the WikiMind.

Friday, November 10, 2006

I got it on like, Like.

"...new Web site called Like.com that bills itself as the first visual search engine, allowing consumers to search for items by appearance instead of just text and then purchase similar versions from 200 merchants' Web sites.

Like.com uses face recognition technology; it looks inside a photo and creates a digital signature that describes the photo's content and enables a more accurate search for similar looking items."

Of course things could get amusingly recursive if they start offering, like, cosmetic work, like.

Monday, November 06, 2006

DeepWeb Search Tools.

Google can only index the visible web, or searchable web. But the invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web.

Mmmm...more web.