Asking to be sued

01:43PM Mar 15, 2007 in category General by Jason Rumney

Spotted today on the front page of Google News UK. The article itself was worded slightly differently.

Google News snapshot   ABC News snapshot

Someone's asking to be sued, but is it Google, or ABC News?

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Hi Mum

11:55AM May 19, 2006 in category General by Jason Rumney

Google Maps has just extended their mapping to Australia and New Zealand. The NZ maps even show the boundaries between sections! I wish I had this before I went to New Zealand in December / January. If only I could figure out how the searching works, at the moment it only seems useful for locating places that you already know where they are.

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Road to nowhere

01:02AM Apr 14, 2006 in category General by Jason Rumney

Check out this Satellite image of the M25 near Woking, from Google Maps. No wonder google's directions always seem to be about a block out.

Update: It looks like they've moved the problem a few hundred meters north now.

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Sanitized search

10:58PM Jan 27, 2006 in category General by Jason Rumney

Tiananmen Square from google.cn Image 1 of 42 from a Google image search for Tiananmen Square on google.cn.


Tiananmen Square from google.com Image 1 of about 14000 results for the same search on google.com.

[Courtesy of a Slashdot post]


It appears from this and a few other quick searches I tried, that Google's capitulating to China and "filtering" their results amounts to only returning results for pages that are located inside the Great Firewall.

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