the blog of david dean » google http://www.davidbdean.com currently not blogging much at all Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Google counting real-world ad impressions. http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/05/10/google-counting-real-world-ad-impressions/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/05/10/google-counting-real-world-ad-impressions/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 03:03:29 +0000 David Dean http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/05/10/google-counting-real-world-ad-impressions/ Reportedly your favorite big brother, Google, is looking at the feasibility of using IR-emitting cameras to count how often people look at physical advertising spaces. Then the advertiser can only pay for their actual impressions. We’ve done some close up work on eye and gaze tracking with infrared in our laboratory but it sounds like they are getting them to work from a bit further away, but certainly not for roadside billboard distance yet.

I was just thinking though, what if the advertiser wasn’t very good at designing eye-catching billboards, and nobody looked at it? The advertiser isn’t getting many impressions, but they also aren’t paying much. What about the poor person who rents the billboard space? Maybe they have to set an interestingness threshold. :)

]]> http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/05/10/google-counting-real-world-ad-impressions/feed/ 0 Google Maps now has business listings and directions in Australia http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/02/06/google-maps-now-has-business-listings-and-directions-in-australia/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/02/06/google-maps-now-has-business-listings-and-directions-in-australia/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:50:56 +0000 David Dean http://www.davidbdean.com/2007/02/06/google-maps-now-has-business-listings-and-directions-in-australia/ Woot!

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    • ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/11/09/links-for-2006-11-08/feed/ 0     Google Code Search http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/10/05/google-code-search/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/10/05/google-code-search/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:13:21 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/10/05/google-code-search/ Google Code Search is out, and it is pretty good. hackity hack, “//TODO”, micro\$oft. Thanks Philipp.

    ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/10/05/google-code-search/feed/ 0     Google Maps Australia almost works http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/21/google-maps-australia-almost-works/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/21/google-maps-australia-almost-works/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:03:43 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/09/21/google-maps-australia-almost-works/ So, it appears that Google Maps have finally allowed us to search for streets. Not sure when this happened, but yay! It appears you need to bung an ‘Australia’ on the end of most searches for it to work though, which explains why I haven’t noticed it working ’cause I didn’t ever do that – I just figured that if the map was already in Australia it would assume I wanted to stay there. Example. You still can’t get directions happening yet.

    Jamie has noticed this too, and if you want to go throw eggs at his house, well, now you can.

    ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/21/google-maps-australia-almost-works/feed/ 1     Google scholar bibtex export http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/12/google-scholar-bibtex-export/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/12/google-scholar-bibtex-export/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:48:22 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/09/12/google-scholar-bibtex-export/ Google ScholarJamie points out that you can setup Google Scholar so that it allows you to export bibtex from the results pages. Just turn in on the “Scholar Preferences” page (look to the right of the search box).

    ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/12/google-scholar-bibtex-export/feed/ 1     Google releasing huge word usage database http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/04/google-releasing-huge-word-usage-database/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/04/google-releasing-huge-word-usage-database/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:11:54 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/08/04/google-releasing-huge-word-usage-database/ Google ResearchOn Google’s official research blog (they have a research blog? subscribed!) they report that they are going to release via LDC a huge database on the statistical occurence of word sequences.

    We believe that the entire research community can benefit from access to such massive amounts of data. It will advance the state of the art, it will focus research in the promising direction of large-scale, data-driven approaches, and it will allow all research groups, no matter how large or small their computing resources, to play together. That’s why we decided to share this enormous dataset with everyone. We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,653,070 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 times.

    This could be very useful for a lot of speech research. Link. Thanks, Google Blogoscoped.

    ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/04/google-releasing-huge-word-usage-database/feed/ 0     Google Maps Australia is official, but still doesn’t work http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/05/30/google-maps-australia-is-official-but-still-doesnt-work/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/05/30/google-maps-australia-is-official-but-still-doesnt-work/#comments Wed, 31 May 2006 00:05:22 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/05/30/google-maps-australia-is-official-but-still-doesnt-work/ Well, Google has officially announced their support of Australian and New Zealand map data, but it still doesn’t support street or suburb lookup at this stage, rendering it almost entirely useless. I hope full support arrives soon.

    ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/05/30/google-maps-australia-is-official-but-still-doesnt-work/feed/ 2     Google maps does Australia http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/05/18/google-maps-does-australia/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/05/18/google-maps-does-australia/#comments Fri, 19 May 2006 07:26:41 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/05/18/google-maps-does-australia/ Kelvin Grove
    Finally, Google has rolled out street level data for Australia.

    ]]>     http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/05/18/google-maps-does-australia/feed/ 0     doowobbie http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/04/20/doowobbie/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/04/20/doowobbie/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:47:35 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/04/20/doowobbie/ Can you believe that there were no google search results for doowobbie?

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