Simon Zambrovski » Simon Zambrovski | Categry: google

Eclipse p2 for Sale

Simon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:31:33 +0000

Google seems to have a funny interpretation of the search and an interesting strategy for advertisements. I was looking for a repository to get Subclipse, because the tigris.org page was down for maintenance. So I opened Google (the German version of it http://www.google.de/) to look for “Sublipse p2″. On the right side of the page, the ad has been displayed… (The translation of it from German is: Buy Eclipse p2, thousands of offers. Eclipse p2: low prices guaranteed…)

It is impressive, since I was not searching for Eclipse, but the Big Brother was able to establish the semantic link between Sublipse and Eclipse and look for Eclipse & p2. It turns out that p2 is Pentium II and Eclipse is the Fujitsu Siemens Notebook.

For all non-geeks among us: Eclipse is a the famous software platform and integrated development environment built on top of it. P2 is the system for provisioning and installation of components inside of Eclipse. Eclipse is the example for the open-source development and is available free of charge.

Old features, new name

Simon — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:38:53 +0000

Google’s portal is now called iGoogle

Personalizing Google Maps

simon — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:03:28 +0000

Google Maps Service hast been extended. Now a registered user can create own maps easily. The results can be exported via KLM.

Google Web Albums

Simon — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:01:48 +0000

Google’s alternative to Flickr extended free space from 250MB to 1GB.

In that time yahoo (FlickR) added their own map and copied google feature of sharing the album with people without a FlickR account.

tags: google, yahoo, flickr, picasa

Google Theme

Simon — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:42:09 +0000

Today I noticed a small “Select theme” on the right side of my customized google page. After selecting a theme I was excited about the themes capable of displaying the local time, sunrise and dawn.

I wonder what will be next? Displaying the weather?

Google Code vs. Sourceforge

Simon — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:39:01 +0000

Yesterday, I spoke with Boris about the “ Google Code” and the silently growing project management site. Google started with “Code Search” and is now establishing a suite a la Sourceforge. Just another provider that will be kicked by side from Google. Boris said, that would damage the community oppinion. Even so, today I saw this message and wonder if it is possible to buy Sourceforge…

tags: google, sourceforge

Google Reader

simon — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:13:00 +0000

I forgot to inform that the new version of Google Reader is much more comfortable than the last one, so I moved all my blog-reading off the Bloglines to Google Reader…

Google Services

simon — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:11:00 +0000

Today I noticed that my google service offers several “new” services in the upper left corner of my GMail. These are Google, GMail, Calendar, Photos, Docs and Spreadsheets.

The new one are:

Photos ( picasa web albums) offering something like FlickR, but better (as usual by google) and
Docs and Spreadshhets ( docs and spreadsheets) that is a conjunction of Spreadsheets (Google Excel) and Writely (Google Word) and the document management interface…

Great. We are continously moving to online office….

Google Analytics installed

simon — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:39:00 +0000

I installed Google Analytics in order to find out, who is reading my blog…

Integration of Google’s Blog-Knowledge in browsing

simon — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:03:00 +0000

A nice extension for Firefox, showing the Blogs (from Blogger) to the current site visited
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/webcomments/index.html