Datawhorehouse put together an Orkut Member density map by crawling Orkut’s member database. Map of the Bay Area is pretty interesting….
Category Archives: Google
2003 Google Zeitgeist
Google released its Zeitgeist for 2003….
Google gets social
Orkut Buyukkokten, a UI designer at Google, quietly put online today a social networking site named Orkut.com. According to News.com this social software was Orkut’s personal project at Google, one day a week, but remains the property of Google. Membership is currently invite only….
Google bombing
Tom McNichol of The NY Times covers the growing practice of Google bombing: engineering search results to your whim….
Google Looks for Book Content
Google is building its own searchable book library with pointers to publisher maintained sites instead of an internal source like Amazon’s solution….