If you look at the site, hes using Google API, using his google API key. Google opened their API to allow stuff like this. It's perfectly legal and he has their permission.
When I went to this site (buzztools) the time I wasn't fully slashdotted, I was prompted for a Google API key.
Am I just paranoid when mentioning the chance that such a funny tool might just be great for collecting other people's Google API access nummers/codes? Right now, google does not charge you but... Hmm, I am too paranoid.
Last year, I attented some autopsies at my university (neighter as the one lying on the board nor as an active medic). This has been a great opportunity to see how things are inside your body. The routine of an autopsy includes the opening of the skull and the inspection of the brain. The face remains intact (it is turned over - this can be imagined literally). When the procedure is over, you won't see from the front that the face has been moved.
Anyway, this cannot be copied over 1:1 but it gives you a hint that transplanting faces it not voodo science or (ony) hollywood. I guess the 'commercial' market for transplanting faces exceedes many other types of organs.
I just tried searching for my name, and got 3540 matches!
But that could be because my name is the same as a locality in Australia..
Well, you're still lucky. Guess what happens to 5 year old George Washington when he does what you did.
(The first name "Gerhard" as well as the last name "Schröder" ist very common in Germany. Even in politics (Minister of Defense Gerhard Schröder (around 1968) is not the same as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (1998 - now))
Stuart, do you results become more accurate when you exclude the town of this park for example?
The URL is very different to a human name. The Human Name System is crappy. It's not unique, it has not a defined charset and it is subject to chances all the time (Guess what happens when Mary marries Martin). Searching for "Jim Miller" or another popular name will not give you satisfing results. Arabic names for example are very hard to find (thats a phenomenon even the Feds have discovered by now). Does it say AlQuaida, El Kaida, Al Quaeda,...Al Kiruna?
The technical approach of PageRank cannot be compared to count the number of results to a given Human Name.
My name "Mathias Schindler" is not unique and it's often misspelled "Matthias". Since the ordinary human population dislikes the idea of a unique naming system for people. (Another example might be Iceland, where the Surname results from the first name of your father (I heard so, it does not have to be correct)).
Posting your URL does not help your real name to boost directly. Putting your name under every message might.
Version 2.0 *could* make use of that by using the google pageRank as an indicator (for what, btw?). for the importance of a search result. This is the future....
I haven't seen this on altavista yet. Besides google, I had some fun with the other usual suspects and altavista, search.msn and alltheweb.com performed very strange (note: this is not a 'proof' but rather a personal experience) The fluctuation in the total number of search results over time was far greater than compared to google.
I'd love to see this altavista feature (does this include some kind of 'history'?).
SADDAM'S SOLDIERS SURRENDER Sunday Mirror, UK - 24 minutes ago TERRIFIED Iraqi soldiers have crossed the Kuwait border and tried to surrender to British forces - because they thought the war had already started.
Slashdot Mirror
When I went to this site (buzztools) the time I wasn't fully slashdotted, I was prompted for a Google API key.
Am I just paranoid when mentioning the chance that such a funny tool might just be great for collecting other people's Google API access nummers/codes? Right now, google does not charge you but... Hmm, I am too paranoid.
Last year, I attented some autopsies at my university (neighter as the one lying on the board nor as an active medic). This has been a great opportunity to see how things are inside your body. The routine of an autopsy includes the opening of the skull and the inspection of the brain. The face remains intact (it is turned over - this can be imagined literally). When the procedure is over, you won't see from the front that the face has been moved.
Anyway, this cannot be copied over 1:1 but it gives you a hint that transplanting faces it not voodo science or (ony) hollywood. I guess the 'commercial' market for transplanting faces exceedes many other types of organs.
Well, you're still lucky. Guess what happens to 5 year old George Washington when he does what you did.
(The first name "Gerhard" as well as the last name "Schröder" ist very common in Germany. Even in politics (Minister of Defense Gerhard Schröder (around 1968) is not the same as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (1998 - now))
Stuart, do you results become more accurate when you exclude the town of this park for example?
The URL is very different to a human name. The Human Name System is crappy. It's not unique, it has not a defined charset and it is subject to chances all the time (Guess what happens when Mary marries Martin). Searching for "Jim Miller" or another popular name will not give you satisfing results. Arabic names for example are very hard to find (thats a phenomenon even the Feds have discovered by now). Does it say AlQuaida, El Kaida, Al Quaeda, ...Al Kiruna?
The technical approach of PageRank cannot be compared to count the number of results to a given Human Name.
My name "Mathias Schindler" is not unique and it's often misspelled "Matthias". Since the ordinary human population dislikes the idea of a unique naming system for people. (Another example might be Iceland, where the Surname results from the first name of your father (I heard so, it does not have to be correct)).
Posting your URL does not help your real name to boost directly. Putting your name under every message might.
Version 2.0 *could* make use of that by using the google pageRank as an indicator (for what, btw?). for the importance of a search result. This is the future....
I haven't seen this on altavista yet. Besides google, I had some fun with the other usual suspects and altavista, search.msn and alltheweb.com performed very strange (note: this is not a 'proof' but rather a personal experience) The fluctuation in the total number of search results over time was far greater than compared to google.
I'd love to see this altavista feature (does this include some kind of 'history'?).
Mathias Schindler
Paranews (German page, English links) is playing with google for a long time.
You might want to enjoy ideas like Googlefight
(Beginners' points to start:
George W. Bush vs. Saddam Hussein
Have fun...
Well, by answering this question, i going to stay ontopic (as I used these cute google tools :)
(warning, "sunday mirror" sounds like a name for a tabloid newspaper, so handle with care)
news.google.com
SADDAM'S SOLDIERS SURRENDER
Sunday Mirror, UK - 24 minutes ago
TERRIFIED Iraqi soldiers have crossed the Kuwait border and tried to surrender
to British forces - because they thought the war had already started.
Long time ago, I began to think about graphing someones "impact" in this world by letting google hunt for his/her name.
The pre-result can be watched at my homepage.
It's important not just to look at the real number but to watch the number growing and declining.
Anna Lührmann (age 19) was elected as member of Parliament 09/23/2002 and her google score just doubled within some days.
Maybe I'm going to reimplement this thing by using the google API and some funny php/lib_gd tools.