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Google Public DNS

britg — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:29:44 +0000

Google announces their DNS initiative: Google Public DNS.

I always thought it was kinda inconvenient that there’s a “DNS propagation” downtime. Looks like one of the things Google is doing is making DNS propagation fast and asynchronous to requests.

Google Public DNS independently resolves domain names and keeps the resolutions in the cache until their time-to-live (TTL) expires, at which point they are automatically refreshed. The cycle of caching and refreshing is performed offline, asynchronously with user requests, so that responses are almost always available directly from cache.

My Stream-of-Consciousness During the Google-ocalypes

britg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:41:43 +0000

This is my unfiltered and raw stream-of-consciousness during the event that I like to call the google-ocalypes.

what is the pricing model for AWS EBS? …
huh, that’s odd… some spammer must have taken over the results for ‘amazon web services pricing’ …
no, the URL is correct. maybe someone hacked Amazon!!
*search for ‘amazon.com’*…
yeah, someone definitely hacked amazon. I better write a blog post about this! eh, someone probably already has …
my cat looks like Jabba the Hut…
*search for ‘hacked amazon’*….
hmm, all of these are marked as malware too. very odd…
I’m hungry… eggs sound good for breakfast, maybe with a hot toasted english muffin…
orange juice…
*search for ‘google’* woah that’s marked as malware too!
this definitely deserves a blog post…
I bet TechCrunch has already written a post about it…
*search for ‘techcrunch’* (note: I use google as my URL bar)…
Shit! even that’s marked as malware…
I’m definitely writing a blog post now…

Google Results Showing Everything as Harmful

britg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:55:16 +0000

*UPDATE* Looks like it’s a worldwide thing: Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware

Odd bug at the moment with Google search results. All results are showing up as “harmful to my computer.” Is this just me or are other people seeing this too?

Searchable SWFs – Game Changing

britg — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:43:56 +0000

Adobe just dropped a bomb as far as I’m concerned. They’ve announced a collaboration between Google and Yahoo to bring fully searchable SWFs. Ted on Flex reveals the best part:

The cool part is that this also covers dynamic data loaded in from requests to a server, these are typically ignored in both AJAX and SWF applications.

This is going to open the door for a lot of the cool and useful things we’ve been wanting to do for clients at Figaro, but have had reservations about because of SEO implications, and I’m sure many RIA houses out there feel the same.

Combine this news with a tool like swfaddress to provide deep linking into your applications and BAM! you have a killer combo. Let’s just remember to keep our apps classy and tasteful, guys and gals. This news isn’t cause to go hog wild with flash like the late 90s, early 2000s restaurant site debacle.

Google Hosts Javascript Libraries So You Don’t Have To

britg — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:08:40 +0000

Just found this on google code – google hosts popular javascript libraries that you can load on your site using their ajax API. They call this their AJAX Libraries API. Some of the libraries they host:

Loading a library is dead simple:

<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi">script>
<script>google.load("jquery", "1");

And the cool part is, you can load different versions of the libraries, notice the second parameter in the google.load() call.