Author Archives: Roger Browne

In a dramatic move, Google today started redirecting traffic from google.com to google.com.hk, from which it serves uncensored search results in simplified Chinese for users in mainland China.

This leaves Google’s services vulnerable to being blocke… Continue reading →

Hitwise, a web analysis business, said on its Analyst Weblog that Facebook was the most visited site last week, overtaking Google Search for the first time.

Hitwise suggests that Google Search accounted for 7.03% of US Internet visits last week, compa… Continue reading →

Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc. From the structure tree, a new text could be generated in the target language.

The precise details… Continue reading →

If you’ve opted in to YouTube’s HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser’s player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago.

YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capabl… Continue reading →

Knol is a Google service that allows anyone to publish an article about almost anything.

When Google’s VP of Engineering, Udi Manber, announced Knol in December 2007 it was widely regarded as a “Wikipedia killer”. If Knol’s users could repli… Continue reading →