Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
LevelDB Open-Sources by Google
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage engine written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values. We are pleased to announce that we are open sourcing LevelDB under a BSD-style license.LevelDB is a C++ library that can be used in many contexts. For example, LevelDB may be used by a web browser to store a cache of recently accessed web pages, or by an operating system to store the list of installed packages and package dependencies, or by an application to store user preference settings. We designed LevelDB to also be useful as a building block for higher-level storage systems. Upcoming versions of the Chrome browser include an implementation of the IndexedDB HTML5 API that is built on top of LevelDB. Google's Bigtable manages millions of tablets where the contents of a particular tablet are represented by a precursor to LevelDB. The Riak distributed database has added support for using LevelDB for its per-node storage.We structured LevelDB to have very few dependencies and it can be easily ported to new systems; it has already been ported to a variety of Unix based systems, Mac OS X, Windows, and Android.LevelDB has good performance across a wide variety of workloads; we have put together a benchmark comparing its performance to SQLite and Kyoto Cabinet. The Riak team has compared LevelDB’s performance to InnoDB. A significant difference from similar systems like SQLite and Kyoto Cabinet is that LevelDB is optimized for batch updates that modify many keys scattered across a large key space. This is an important requirement for efficiently updating an inverted index that does not fit in memory.LevelDB is available on Google Code, we hope you’ll find it useful for your projects.
Benchmarks available here at http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Posterous' Analytics is Broken
I was going through the Posterous management dashboard to review some of available functionality (which is, in fact, was not there, but that's a different story) and I got shocked by a number of pageviews of one of my posts.
My post was viewed 40K times. 40 thousand pageviews. I was, like... I knew I can come up with a couple of interesting things, but... am I that popular?!
Not so fast. The first time I got upset was when I saw that somehow and suddenly I became 10 times less popular. See 4,044 vs 42,010. Oh, this hurts and you are starting to nervously think whom did you call a douche bag or an asshole...
The second time was when I saw my Google Analytics stats.
It was a complete disaster. 2 pageviews versus 42,010. This is a quite a difference.
Now back to the real world. Of course I would never believe that I could have 40K eyeballs on that post. So seeing so many pageviews has pretty much the only one explanation - these are internal or automatic pings or whatever you call them, could be probably done by a caching server or any internal process that I don't even have an idea about. There are only two things about that: bad and bad. The bad thing is that a post, that generates 2 real pageviews, probably should be never accessed 40 thousand times by any number of internal processes. And the bad thing is that such statistics can piss me off, if I'd at any second believe it is real.
Hopefully the guys at Posterous will fix that as soon as possible.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Bing vs Google
Bing 3 – Google 4
So based on the current results it’s really a very near run thing. I’m quite surprised to see this actually, evidently Bing’s UI is easier to navigate than I might have expected.
I think a lot of us have learnt behaviors for Google based on years of experience, so Bing is really doing well to stay up there with Google, especially considering the two UIs are quite far apart.
Both services could obviously make a few small tweaks to their UIs, but as you’d expect with two such popular websites, they are already very streamlined.
As more people take the test, we can expect to see results to evolve somewhat. Be sure to check back at http://video.intuitionhq.com/pub/405 to see how they change.
I feel like I am going to give Bing a try and see if it makes me feel better. :)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Google Apps accounts are being transitioned into "full accounts"
I'm so pissed of to see how badly Google executed the transition of Google Apps accounts into the "full status". http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/google-dr-evil.jpg The thing is that historically I've been using prokh...@gmail.com account exclusively for products & services from Google, that I couldn't authenticate with my Google Apps account(s). That was fine, why not. Such services include Reader, YouTube, Wave and probably something else. However, I discovered that now whenever I'm trying to access services like Reader I'm logging in as my Google Apps account. Which is, frankly speaking, annoying. I have no reading lists there, as well as I don't want to use Google Reader' Share button to share some interesting link through my *new* Reader account (and I never know where it goes to, as I don't remember whom I'm logged in right now). What the heck? And I don't want to start toying with import-export things, because I do have some stuff looking at my Reader account, like Twitterfeeds, people who read my Shared items, etc. This is just bad. What I am forced to do now is to swear every single moment I'm opening something I wanted, but finding myself into one of those (pretty numerous) accounts. This definitely doesn't make me a happier person. What it makes me, though, is to start looking for at least new online RSS reader for myself.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Google Wave is heading to the dead pool
Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.
Damn, that was so freaking easy to understand that Google Wave wasn't a product with a clear purpose. It wasn't solving any single problem. I was really surprised to see Google coming up with this product, where Product Management is taken into such high levels. Anyways, no regrets, hopefully it'll free up some space for something worth trying.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Гугл поймал самолет
Самолет. В Гугл Картах.
Кто хочет убедиться самостоятельно, прошу:
Вопрос - откуда?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Mixpanel v. KISSmetrics v. Google Analytics
I didn’t see a clear winner after poking around with the three tools so I decided to try all of them together. I’m really glad I did because this is the comparison table (based on my experiences from above):
Mixpanel KISSmetrics Google Analytics Tracking Events Great Poor Poor Measuring Funnels Poor Great Average Analyzing Traffic Poor Poor Great Real-time Yes No No Setup Difficult Moderate Easy They’re all great at different things! And since what you need to learn will change over time, you really need more than one tool in the long term.
Arthur Klepchukov has posted a nice comparison between Mixpanel, KISSmetrics and GA. While I believe that GA can be quite good in everything, with a little bit of Mixpanel sauce, it's still a decent pros/cons table to consider.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Google Analytics can be more than just counter
Google Analytics comes with two very useful tools that aren’t enabled by default: Site Search and Event Tracking. When used, these tools can help give more meaningful statistics about users on your site.
via takadesigns.com
Mike Takahashi briefly describes Site Search and Event Tracking features available in Google Analytics. It's also a good thing to take a look at Ian Harris' intro in extending Google Analytics with jQuery (http://www.carronmedia.com/extend-google-analytics-with-jquery/).>
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Promotion System @ Google
When I looked at Google's promotion system through this lens, I was very impressed. It seemed as though the system was designed to create disgruntled employees out of people who might otherwise be perfectly happy.
That's an interesting look at promotion systems, the way how they should be and the ways how they are in some big-name companies.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Google Apps To Become More Connected
Google says 9 of the top 20 requests from Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google. Currently, Apps works with Gmail, Docs, Chat, Groups, Video and Calendar. Later this year, Google will roll out functionality with Apps for Picasa, Google Reader, AdWords, News, Finance, and other products. Users won’t need to switch between their personal and work account to interact with these products from within the Apps interface.
via techcrunchit.com
What a terrible choice to expand. The only thing I would agree is *Reader*. It was ridiculous not to have it in place before. However, damn, who cares about AdWords, News, Finance and all other crap? What about Analytics instead?
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Sometimes social contributed content is not good
Признавайтесь, кто это сделал?!
Мало того что это смешно, так это еще и неверно. :)
P.S. Любому русскоязычному человеку должно быть очевидно что strict не переводится как злоебучий (даже с пометкой неценз).
Google releases Reader Play
Did you see the Google Reader Play yet? As they call it, the fun new way to do something.
Because if you did - I'd need some of your help to understand what is it for. I'm still struggling. Besides, it has retried a dozen of times, before it actually displayed something. Not good.
What's next? Are they looking into Google TV? (By the way, the google.tv domain name is owned by Google and redirects to search page.)
P.S. I liked that image that happened to appear in my feed. :)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Лже-Гугл в Украине
via ain.ua
Очень креативно, но все сильно усложнили. Ребята, ваш уровень - гоп-стоп. Не надо рвать шаблон. :)
Friday, February 12, 2010
Google Buzz is DOA ?
Horowitz said Google is considering separating Buzz from Gmail, so that people can participate independently from email. The company might also allow people on Buzz to claim new names and redirect anyone seeking them at their old profiles to the new locations. Horowitz says Google also continues to look at ensuring search is a good way for people to locate the “right” people, as well.
Google has responded quickly to some of the concerns raised this week. In a blog post Thursday, Buzz Product Manager Todd Jackson shared and explained three changes:
- More visible option to not show followers/people you follow on your public profile
- Ability to block anyone who starts following you
- More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can appear on your public profile
Some users and industry watchers are still unimpressed with Google’s changes. It may be that ending the marriage of Buzz and Gmail is Google’s best option to address these ongoing concerns.
This is so funny.
My experience with Google Buzz was very mixed. It looks *great* at the same time as being *too much*. All this linkage of other sites and accounts gave me a strong feeling of the Friendfeed's chatroom applied to the wrong place. (I don't use Friendfeed, so excuse me offending, if I do.)
I'd say Buzz might be more interesting for me running separately though.
Friday, January 15, 2010
GWO fails?
via abtests.com
One the two similar pages, GWO reports one as a sure winner. Followed up by the Google support forum thread http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/websiteoptimizer/thread?fid=6d558f0fdbcc7e5400047d0f1cd1c68a&hl=en
Friday, December 11, 2009
Why am I not using Chrome, yet
While a lot of my friends are hooked up on Google Chrome already, on both Macs and PCs, I still deny using it instead of my Firefox. 
No, it's not like I'm in love with FF. I actually don't like it, as it feels occasionally buggy, memory leaking and rather slow. (Comparing to Chrome.)
But I do use FF extensions.
The most important ones are:
- Delicious - damn, that's an every day thing.
- HttpFox - yes, I do use it and quite often.
Also, I'd be happy to have:
- Firebug & PageSpeed - these two are also quite important ones, although I keep them disabled the most of time, as they make FF unbelievable slow (even if I'm not using them).
- Affiliator - the thing that adds an option to right click menu on Amazon's pages to copy to clipboard the page's URL with my associate ID embedded.
- Selenium IDE - it's helpful, but occasionally.
I also have a set of so-called plugins. They include Flip4Mac WMP, Google Talk, QuickTime, Shockwave, Silverlight, VLC and probably something else, that I don't care that much.
Google Chrome does have an extensions now. They even have a Delicious one already. But it looks like extensions are not available on Mac platforms, yet. (Some people say they to be available after the weekend.)
But I'm looking into it...
P.S. Isn't it too much Google, yet?
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