Google RealTime Search

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Posted by Alex | Posted in OTHER STUFF | Posted on 11-12-2009

The new age of Search Engine is coming. Rvolutionary change will affect the information attaining channel and timing value.

 

Google had been taking RealTime search seriously, lately. Months back they talked about integration with twitter, and here it comes.

BREAKING!!! Google has just launched real-time search, integrated into it’s all search results pages.

Google real-time search takes all the latest happenings from Live tweets, Yahoo Answers, News articles and Web pages. Good part: It works on mobiles (including iPhone) too.

 

That’s not all, though. Google’s has laid partnerships with both Facebook (Facebook) and MySpace (MySpace) to pull in data in real-time.
The features might not be available to everyone yet, but will be within the next few days. However, all users can see it now via a “Hot Topics” feature that’s been added to Google Trends. Click on any trend, then click a “Hot Topic,” and you’ll see the new “Latest Results” area of Google search results. For example, you can currently see real-time updates for the Tiger Woods story. or CLICK HERE TO TRY NEW RealTime Search

Google goggles, Visual search, amazing

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Posted by Alex | Posted in OTHER STUFF | Posted on 11-12-2009

Visual search, amazing, I knew it was a missing functionality in the world 3 years ago. I tried to figure out how to realize it and now, it comes with google goggles.

Today at Google’s Search event, Google has launched a new application for Google Android mobile phones that will allow people to search for more information about a famous landmark or work of art simply by taking a photo of that object. The announcement came along with Google Real Time Live search.

Google Goggles can recognise books, tourist attractions, famous paintings and even company logos. Focus your phone’s camera on an object, and Google compares elements of that picture against its database of images and will point you to the relevant results.

What’s more is the Google is able pinpoint the location of the phone user through the GPS software and digital compass built in to many of the phones that run Google’s Android operating system. The company says it can recognise tens of millions of objects and places.

It is here: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark

今天认识了Google App Engine服务

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Posted by Alex | Posted in OTHER STUFF | Posted on 13-06-2009

Google App Engine

Google App Engine

        其实很早就听说过Google App Engine,但是我发现我一直就是后知后觉的,虽然一直会有各种各样的idea,但是总落后于时代,后来我把这种结果归结于自负,的确,很多时候,我都愿意自己去“创造”,可是我一直忽略了这个时代的进度,也就是说,绝大多数情况下,我一直是落后的,那么所谓的“创造”,最多也是上个时代的东西。

        我写文章,就爱写题外话,总是写跑题的,言归正传,今天要说的是Google App Engine,简称其为GAE。GAE是在2008年上半年上线的,上线的时候只是支持Python语言,现在支持Java了,每个Google Account支持3个应用程序,而现在已经支持10个,原来支持2G流量,现在支持10G了。不过我最大的感觉是Google App Engine简单来说就是一个虚拟主机,只是它支持的脚本语言是Python,跟一般虚拟主机策略不同,GAE只支持自己的BigTable,并不支持最流行的PHP,Mysql等流行开源技术,我的理解是GAE要建立自己的Web应用平台,而且GAE有绝对的自信,即使是不支持那些流行技术,同样可以做的很好。

        Google经常会给人们熟知的服务起一个新的名字,但是慢慢的,我发现,Google总是给它们赋予新的含义。GAE也是这样,既然叫App Engine,就必定不同于以往的虚拟主机,GAE希望能建立一个统一的Web应用平台,而这正是多年前Google曾希望的,将全世界的数据纳入同意平台管理一样。

        GAE现在为每个应用程序提供46.3CPU小时的时间,10G数据流量,1G数据存储,2000个Email发送,超过这个限制的,则要花费0.1美元/G流量,价格还是非常低廉的,和国内8元/2G/月的流量比起来的确很不错。

       GAE因为是支持Python为主,虽然支持Java了,但是对于大多数Web应用,我指的是blog、论坛、CMS等,是以PHP+MySQL为主,GAE的支持者转向python+bigtable仍需一定的理由,但在今天,我也的确发现了不少优秀的Blog程序,相信GAE会获得越来越多的支持。其实我一直关心的是,GAE在Google的战略中是一个怎样的地位。并不是怀疑,而是暂时还未看清。向我文章开头讲的,我一向后知后觉。

      最后,说完一大堆啰嗦的事情,简单说说GAE能做什么:

  • GAE像一般的虚拟主机一样,可以用于托管应用程序,但是目前支持Python和Bigtable数据存储
  • GAE可以让用户绑定自己的域名,以独立域名的方式访问服务
  • 每个GAE账户支持10个应用程序,每个应用程序可以免费占用1G存储空间、10G/日流量、2000Email/日发送,超出部分需要交纳费用
  • GAE可以用来建立Blog、图片共享等一切Web应用,也已经有人做过校内等SNS社区插件,效果不错

      Google App Engine的技术其实并不新鲜,无非是多了一种数据库、一种编程语言的支持,但是其蕴含的战略,的确值得关注。

       我发现我总是喜欢在文章最后再说点别的,GAE虽然不支持PHP,但是Google支持Java,而Java中的Resin或Jetty+quercus则可以完美支持PHP 5.2+,所以,从这个角度讲,在GAE上跑PHP也是没有问题的。