I find Google's In Quotes a really nifty application, and as a CS guy, I have to understand how it works. How do you think it turns news articles into a list of quotes attributed to specific persons? Sure, there are some mistakes, but their algorithm seems to be smarter than just a simple heuristic or multiple regular expressions. For ex...
Has anyone had any experience using Google spreadsheets to store data online so multiple people can enter and maintain data, then publishing or exporting (csv,xls,ods) the sheet for their application? What is the easiest way to process the sheet? If the data can be accessed as a link the updates could be immediately reflected in the cl...
My friend was given this free google website optimizer tshirt and came to me to try and figure out what the front logo meant. t-shirt So, I have a couple of guesses as to what it means, but I was just wondering if there is something more. My first guess is that each block represents a page layout, and the logo "You should test that" j...
In my website, users have the possibility to store links. During typing the internet address into the designated field I would like to display a suggest/autocomplete box similar to Google Suggest or the Chrome Omnibar. Example: User is typing as URL: http://www.sta Suggestions which would be displayed: http://www.staples.com http:...
Need a function like: function isGoogleURL(url) { ... } that returns true iff URL belongs to Google. No false positives; no false negatives. Luckily there's this as a reference: .google.com .google.ad .google.ae .google.com.af .google.com.ag .google.com.ai .google.am .google.it.ao .google.com.ar .google.as .google.at .google.com...
In a PHP script I want to get just the URL of the top result of a Google search and redirect to it. I could scrape it but is there a better way? ...
I'm looking for a way to implement a referral system for my web site. Initially I went with http://mysite.com/?affid=0001 and used the affid in the query string affid value to record referrals. The problem with this is that from some common Google search phrases the link with the affid appears before the standard link in a Google search...
Google guys seems to know their game and I like learning from those smarter than me. Google is sharing a lot of code with open source community. Their docs and APIs are IMO state of the art. Which tools / APIs would you recommend for a C++ developer? I'm interested both in looking at interesting solutions / tricks as well as using some G...
If one wanted to build a web site around books, would it be better to use Amazon's web services API or the Google book API? All aspects of the question are welcome discussion fodder: technical ease, quality of metadata, API capabilities, language support, and so on. ...
I've been asked to add Google e-commerce tracking into my site. This tracking involves inserting some javascript on your receipt page and then calling it's functions. From my asp.net receipt page, I need to call one function (_addTrans) for the transaction info and then another (_addItem) for each item on the order. An example of what...
Basically I have a website. I have a properly setup sitemap so I assume Google knows about all of my pages. And I've seen on some sites, the search form leads to a page with the shell of the original site but the results are clearly provided by Google. Similar to codinghorror.com's search, however his results aren't shown within his w...
I have a T-Mobile G1 and I'm going to download the developer SDK and see if I can create a few simple apps for my phone. If you've done similar development, please answer below and tell me about your experience. Please share any links you found especially useful. Thanks! ...
What are the main differences between search engines (DtSearch , Lucene.net, Sphinx, Google etc) that should influence the decision as to which to use to search proprietary data? The data to be searched consists of presentation-free data that is marked up with metadata in the form of name/value pairs. We’re not interested in the format...
Have you found Guice useful to manage DI in you applications or run stress tests or even brought an application using Guice to a production phase in your company? If you have, have you run into any issues with it? ...
I want to develop google gadget and i want to user AJAX push technology.Is that possible at all? I have found this http://softwareas.com/google-gadget-api-for-ajax-developers but i cant see the "push" part there. in short ... i want changes on my server to refresh my google gadget, is that possible and how? ...
Hello I have recently started looking into Google Charts API for possible use within the product I'm working on. When constructing the URL for a given chart, the data points can be specified in three different formats, unencoded, using simple encoding and using extended encoding (http://code.google.com/apis/chart/formats.html). However,...
I am having a lot of trouble finding good information on how to call a standard SOAP/WSDL web service with Android. All I've been able to find are either very convoluted documents and references to "kSoap2" and then some bit about parsing it all manually with SAX. ... Ok, that's fine but it's 2008 so I figured there should be some good l...
Wikipedia allows you to reproduce its content. If you want to use Wikipedia materials in your own books/articles/websites or other publications, you can do so -- but only in compliance with the GFDL. See here. I am considering using some wikipedia content to pad out pages on my website. For example - just taking the first couple of par...
I've been developing an internal website for a portfolio management tool. There is a lot of text data, company names etc. I've been really impressed with some search engines ability to very quickly respond to queries with "Did you mean: xxxx". I need to be able to intelligently take a user query and respond with not only raw search re...
Is there anything like Firebug that you can use within Google Chrome? Essential features I would like: Inspect HTML source (select elements, delete them, etc.) check CSS values (the built-in solution is weird, somehow) ...