Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Eurovision song contest predicted by Google

I like Eurovision and I think it’s the most watched song contest in the Europe. Few days ago I got an idea to predict results by googling them.
Eurovision vote rules are simple. Each country can vote for other country in the list except their own. Most voted song get 12 points, second place 10 points, third place [...]

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How to determine a sex by name

The Tricks of the Trade weblog has a good use for Google Image search: to figure out someone’s sex based on their name.
If you are dealing with an international contacts but don’t know if they are man or woman, try typing their first name into an image search engine like images.google.com (e.g., Vitalie). Watch out [...]

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BitTorrent for Google Desktop Search

Torrent files contains lots of metainfo that can be extracted and allowed to search.
So I made a simple BitTorrent Indexer for GDS. It’s a freeware plug-in for Google Desktop Search which parses torrent files and gives info to Google into nice a textual format.
Notes for installation:

Download Google Desktop
Install Google Desktop
Download BitTorrent for Google Desktop Search
Install [...]

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GDS for Outlook Express

GDS for OE is a small plug-in for Google Desktop that helps users search emails directly from Outlook Express and show results back inside Outlook Express.
To be able to install this plug-in you must have administrator rights, because it uses some of hack techniques to inject its code into Outlook Express.
Notes for installation:

Download Google Desktop
Install Google Desktop
Download GDS for Outlook [...]

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Wikipedia Tracker

Wikipedia Tracker allows easily watching from Google Desktop Sidebar all Wikipedia new articles.
Wikipedia Tracker does not contain any spyware and adware.
Click to download and install
Wikipedia Tracker.

Want more features or any bug? Fill free to contact me

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Google blog hacked?

Today I opened my gmail account, and saw a Web Clip into my top “IGoogle, fix your blog pleeeassseee!”
What was that? Look at the screenshots below.
I followed the link and there wasn’t any page on google blog
Did little searching on google and found the “missing” page:
Opened google blog page http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ and it seams that somebody found [...]

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Digg for Google Toolbar

I love Digg and Google Toolbar. Last weekend I decided to integrate digg into google toolbar.
First download Google Toolbar Version 4 and then just click on one of the following links.
Click here to track Digg Front Page
Click here to track Digg Stories Page
Tip: Buttons in Google toolbar allow to search on Go to Web page [...]

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