Thursday, March 25, 2004

New Ebook LIBRIe

Have you ever dreamed of being able to search through the book you are reading?

“The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - the real one, not that Douglas Adams novel thingy - just came a step closer. Sony has launched its first electronic book using what it calls “electronic paper”.

In reality, that means a high pixel density display panel. Unlike most 72dpi notebook and monitor panels, the one used in the Sony Librié 1000-EP is a 170dpi job. The display’s resolution is 600 x 800.”
– Tony Smith, Sony launches true electronic book (The Register), 25/03/2004

(I hope it supports basic HTML books as found on the net.)

New Ebook LIBRIe by Philipp Lenssen

Google Words 2004

In 2003 I listed the page count of a variety of Google words. The word “Google” itself went from 19 million pages then to 42 million pages now. Though most words also increased in total page count, 25% return a lower page count now than they did in 2003. Here’s the top 50 hit list with winners and losers:

Google Related Words

Word		Page count 2004		Page count 2003	Movement
Googling	1.	142,000	1.	35,300
Googled	2	122,000	2.	22,900
Gogle	3.	51,300	5.	11,400
Googler	4.	40,100	6.	8,740
Googlesearch	5.	39,200	3.	14,000
Googl	6.	25,700	7.	5,320
Googlestats	7.	21,100	4.	13,000
Googlemania	8.	9,230	19.	812
Googlers	9.	9,200	10.	3,010
Gooogle	10.	8,560	11.	2,260
Googleplex	11.	7,670	9.	3,610
Googlex	12.	7,250	8.	4,310
Googlebombing	13.	4,100	17.	913
Goooogle	14.	3,360	12.	2,240
Googlert	15.	2,770	13.	1,770
Googlebomb	16.	2,490	18.	894
Googlerank	17.	2,210	15.	1,130
Googlosophy	18.	2,140	22.	125
Googleexpert	19.	1,410	38.	11
Googlewashing	20.	698	16.	929
Googlewash	21.	673	14.	1,180
Gooooogle	22.	630	21.	461
Googlology	23.	220	20.	465
Googlebomber	24.	135	25.	43
Googleword	25.	111	26.	41
Googleanswers	26.	86	24.	71
Googlesearching	27.	54	32.	19
Googlemachine	28.	52	45.	1
Googlerific	29.	51	31.	20
Googlelove	30.	51	36.	15
Googletoons	31.	49	23.	191
Googlexpert	32.	48	44.	1
Metagoogle	33.	27	28.	23
Googular	34.	26	27.	25
Googlecentric	35.	23	29.	21
Googlyoogly	36.	23	30.	21
Googlecentric	37.	23	34.	15
Egogoogling	38.	21	33.	19
Googliscious	39.	18	35.	15
Googlefind	40.	15	41.	8
GaGooglemania	41.	13	37.	13
Googlerating	42.	12	39.	9
Googleengine	43.	8	46.	1
Googletoon	44.	6	40.	8
Metagoogling	45.	6	42.	4
Googlorama	46.	3	43.	3
Egogoogler	47.	2	50.	0
Googlosophic	48.	1	47.	0
Googlologic	49.	1	48.	0
Metagoogled	50.	1	49.	0

Google Words 2004 by Philipp Lenssen

New Features For Googlealert

Great Googlealert (former Googlert) now supports case/ punctuation filtering (something which the big G itself does not). [Via ResearchBuzz.]

New Features For Googleal ... by Philipp Lenssen

YahooBomb

You know Googlebombing, the act of associating a webpage with a phrase which does not appear on the page itself. And here’s a recent YahooBomb if found at FindForward: just enter out of touch executives at Yahoo.com and check the top result. [Via Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 25/03/2004]

2004-04-05: I’m currently #1 for “out of touch executives” in Google. Yahoo still shows Google Corporate Information.

YahooBomb by Philipp Lenssen

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