kateoplis:

Google releases How Search Works, where “you can follow the entire life of a search query, from the web, to crawling and indexing, to algorithmic ranking and serving, to fighting webspam.”

(via proofmathisbeautiful)

8bitfuture:

Update on Google Glasses.

Babak Parviz, head of Project Glass at Google has given an interview updating some of the progress since they were first shown off Mid-2012.

Among other information, he describes how the glasses are currently controlled:

Right now, we have a touch pad on the device that allows people to change things on the device if they wish to do so. We have also experimented a lot with using voice commands. We have full audio in and audio out, which is a nice, natural way of interacting with something that you’d wear and always have with you. We have also experimented with some head gestures.

Check out the full interview here.

(via thescienceofreality)

reuters:

Early success for the iPhone 5 smartphone has helped Apple to overtake Google’s Android software in the United States, research firm Kantar WorldPanel said on Tuesday.

Apple’s U.S. market share in the 12 weeks to October 31 more than doubled from a year ago to 48.1 percent, putting it within reach of the record 49.3 percent it managed in early 2012.

Android’s share dropped to 46.7 percent from 63.3 percent, Kantar WorldPanel’s data showed, but it continues to dominate in key European markets. The platform 74 percent market share in Germany and 82 percent in Spain.

Its combined share of the top five European markets rose to 64 percent, from 51 percent a year earlier, while Apple’s share edged up by one percentage point to 21 percent.

READ ON: Apple takes smartphone top spot from Google in U.S.

thisistheverge:

‘Explore the Galaxy’ lets you travel across the Milky Way from the comfort of your browser

Google’s Chrome Experiments have long provided users with in-browser distractions that simultaneously show off the power of HTML 5, Javascript, and other open web technologies, but a new one that arrived today is definitely one of our favorites. “Explore the Galaxy” lets you zoom all the way in on the Sun and a number of other nearby stars and then click, drag, and scroll your way across the entire Milky Way galaxy. It’s a visual treat that really drives home the vastness of outer space that simultaneously fills your brain with knowledge — clicking on the 87 stars closest to Earth will pull up quick Wikipedia-sourced descriptions for each.

(via smithsonianmag)

wnyc:

(via • Chart: Google Rakes In More Ad Dollars Than U.S. Print Media | Statista)

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theatlantic:

Google Has a Stormtrooper Guarding Its Data Center

#These aren’t the search results you’re looking for

Move along, move along.

wildcat2030:

If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age — a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it’s the home of a Google data center. (via Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)

So these are the Internet Tubes everyone keeps talking about! (Actually a central cooling plant in Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data center.)