I spent over five hours interviewing at Google's Boulder office yesterday. My visit came about a month after I submitted my résumé, via a connection who referred me, to Google's famously challenging hiring process. Before I arrived at Google's office, I'd had my résumé selected from a large pool (which is probably full of bad programmers), had a ( Read more... )

Google advanced image search has an option to search just for faces. This means they have a program to inspect an image file and guess if it contains a face. This is something that humans are really good at, but computers take a lot of teaching to get right and Google seems to do a pretty good job.
Straightforward uses of this include searching ( Read more... )

The guy who's dad actually died in a blogging accident is now on Google Page 2, thanks to today's XKCD.

Someone in Long Island City has a creative way to pop the question. (Be sure to close the info balloon to see what's up.)

Thanks to polonius for the discovery.

Google does a lot with just keywords. but you know sometimes words have two meanings. A search for spears will return a few pages related to long pointed sticks and several more related to a well known young woman with two kids ( Read more... )

When uploading a new user icon, I was trying to figure out how to spell Charbonneau, a ghost town in North Dakota. I wound up searching Google for Charbonneau, ND. The top hit is "Jobs in Charbonneau, ND - Yahoo HotJobs." Further down you can search the Charbonneau yellow pages, find home improvement contractors, and find a roommate. Take a ( Read more... )