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Re: Google Adds Disclaimer Ad to Results for [Michelle Obama]
This is getting absurd. First, an arguably racist photo caricature of the US president’s wife, Michelle Obama, appeared in a search for her name, and Google decided to launch a disclaimer ad campaign on those results. Then that image got remove...
Google Adds Disclaimer Ad to Results for [Michelle Obama]
Searching Google Images for michelle obama currently results in a (Blogspot-hosted) racist image in the number one position. Google decided to buy* a disclaimer ad for this page reading: Offensive Search Results www.google.com/resultsinfo Someti...
Google to Acquire Teracent, Makers of Algorithm-Generated Banners
Google announced they’re acquiring the company Teracent, which creates auto-learning/ self-adjusting image ads. “Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-tim...
A CSS3-based Rotated Google
Ages (in web time) ago, I created a rotated Google based on some IExplorer hack. Now, there's a CSS3 compatible new Rotated Google around. As the old one, it's completely unofficial, but (rotation aside) also completely usable. If you check out the H...
This Google toilet paper...
... is not official, but a copycat clone from Thailand, which a reader of the Funny Potato blog snapped. [Edit: I was told this is from Thailand but the letters below the logo look Vietnamese to me and others... I’ll add an update if Jona...
A Book on Programming the Google App Engine
Programming Google App Engine is a new book from O’Reilly, written by Google’s Dan Sanderson. The App Engine, despite all its downtimes, is an interesting (Python/ Java based) environment with a focus on being scalable. And even if yo...
