Archive for 'search' Category

Googling Security, by Greg Conti

By Surferbill - Last updated: Sunday, December 7, 2008

This sounds like a good book: Googling Security, by Greg Conti. “When you use Google’s “free” services, you pay, big time–with personal information about yourself. Google is making a fortune on what it knows about you… and you may be shocked by just how much Google does know. Googling Security is the first book to [...]

Google indexes one trillion unique pages (1,000,000,000,000)

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, July 28, 2008

From the blog: “The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just [...]

TinEye does for images, what Google does for text

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Amber MacArthur has made a great video demoing TinEye. TinEye does for images, what Google does for text. You give it an image, either by uploading or pointing to an image hosted on the web, and TinEye finds all copies of that image online, including variations on the image. Take a look at the video [...]