Tag: GOOGLEBLOGOSCOPED

Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped fame has come up with a fun little game using Creative Commons photos found on Flickr. He's taken 200 images, and chopped them up into little squares. Rather than sliding them around to make a complete picture, you just click on each tile until it rotates into the right position. Sound easy? For the most part it is. But like any puzzle, you've got to be ...

At the Something Awful forums a user called ZorbaTHut, who claims to be a Google engineer who spend his 20% free time improving Google Calculator,  has started a thread called "Ask me about Google (and Google Calculator)," and, at least to a geek like me, the results are fascinating. Unlike the many articles that have been written about the inner workings of Google, ZorbaTHut reveals trivia ...

So far I've avoided the predictions-for-'06 lists just for sheer volume (if you've spotted any particularly good ones, though, please hit up our tips form) but Philipp Lenssen's mostly Google-centric 15 Search Predictions for 2006 at Google Blogoscoped is pretty good. He gives a probability for each of his predictions: Web-wide Google video search? 80%. Graphical ads on Google.com? 40%. Google ...