Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Working on Swine Flu this week has been especially interesting because it makes me reflect on how much things have changed in the information landscape since I worked on SARS in 2003 and Bird Flu in 2004-05. In those outbreaks, the main source of information was lists of links found ...
Posted in Google, PicsNo, Twitter, Uncategorized, flu | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Poking around in Google Similar Images, I've found examples that give indications of how the system works. I've put several of these together in a Flickr set, from which the example below is taken.
The top image in each of the pairs below ("Full size image") is a choice from the ...
Posted in Flickr, Google, Image Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | 5 Comments »
Friday, April 10th, 2009
In Dec, 2008, Google announced that they had begun adding recent popular magazines to Google Book Search. Because Google, inexplicably, chose not to provide a list of titles that were included, I made a list of about 40 titles, and until recently I hadn't added to it, assuming that Google ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments on health/medicine in a recent wide-ranging interview by Charlie Rose have not gotten much attention, so I'm excerpting them here. First, Schmidt discusses Google Flu Trends:
[For clarity I've mixed a few words from Rose's questions with Schmidt's comments]
There are many [positive] things that we can ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Yale Image Finder is a search engine for searching medical articles in PubMed Central for images. YIF is notable because it searches for text that is contained in images, many of which are charts and graphs with embedded "text" describing the data being presented. The “text” in these images, as ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
When a link is clicked to a specific page in GBS Mobile, the page that always opens is the entry page for the book. There doesn't seem to be a way to link successfully to specific pages. I've tried this in several examples, and have had the same experience in ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Mobile, Navigation, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Adam Hodgkin, in Google Pictures and Google Books, wonders why Google has chosen to put Prado paintings in Google Earth rather than in Google Images. In December I asked a similar question about Google's putting Life Magazine pictures in Google Images, but putting other picture-laden magazines in Google Books. And, ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Google recently announced that scanned PDF documents are now available in Google Web Search. PDF documents have been in Google before, but most PDF documents that have been scanned from paper documents have not, so this will greatly improve access to PDF's. As described below, it's important to be able ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Maps and newspapers, because they're rich in graphic information, benefit greatly from a zooming and panning interface. Text-only books, because they're more linear and because text is easily searchable, don't benefit from this sort of interface as much, but books with pictures certainly do.
zKimmer.com has recently implemented Google Maps technology ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Magazines, Maps, Navigation, Newspapers, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning, eBooks | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Google recently announced the launch of Google Newspapers. The first issue (and apparently the only one up currently) is the 1969 We're on the moon edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
What caught my attention here is the ability to pan -- to move around on the large newspaper page with the ...
Posted in Google, Navigation, Newspapers, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning | 2 Comments »
