I found Google’s video streaming quality report. It seems to be context sensitive, so for me it reports results for my ISP (Dodo) in the Sydney region.
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Technical Writing @ Google Developers
Today I came across some tech writing courses available from Google: Overview of technical writing courses.
Peter Norvig Leaves Google To Join Stanford AI Unit
I am pleased to hear that Peter Norvig has left Google.
Google C++ Style Guide
Today I (re)discovered the Google C++ Style Guide. There are other Google Style Guides.
Multiline strings in JavaScript
Read an interesting article about multiline strings in JavaScript over on Stack Overflow, which referenced the Google JavaScript Style Guide which I thought was interesting.
Fetch as Google
Today I learned about Fetch as Google. Haven’t used it yet, though.
Languages supported by Google Translate
See here:
Language | Language code |
---|---|
Afrikaans | af |
Albanian | sq |
Arabic | ar |
Azerbaijani | az |
Basque | eu |
Bengali | bn |
Belarusian | be |
Bulgarian | bg |
Catalan | ca |
Chinese Simplified | zh-CN |
Chinese Traditional | zh-TW |
Croatian | hr |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Dutch | nl |
English | en |
Esperanto | eo |
Estonian | et |
Filipino | tl |
Finnish | fi |
French | fr |
Galician | gl |
Georgian | ka |
German | de |
Greek | el |
Gujarati | gu |
Haitian Creole | ht |
Hebrew | iw |
Hindi | hi |
Hungarian | hu |
Icelandic | is |
Indonesian | id |
Irish | ga |
Italian | it |
Japanese | ja |
Kannada | kn |
Korean | ko |
Latin | la |
Latvian | lv |
Lithuanian | lt |
Macedonian | mk |
Malay | ms |
Maltese | mt |
Norwegian | no |
Persian | fa |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese | pt |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Serbian | sr |
Slovak | sk |
Slovenian | sl |
Spanish | es |
Swahili | sw |
Swedish | sv |
Tamil | ta |
Telugu | te |
Thai | th |
Turkish | tr |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Vietnamese | vi |
Welsh | cy |
Yiddish | yi |
Direct, referral or organic traffic
Just trying to get my head around the ‘Direct’, ‘Referral’ and ‘Organic’ traffic classifications in Google Analytics. Basically ‘Direct’ is where there is no referrer header, e.g. user typed URL into address bar, clicked on link in email, etc. ‘Referral’ means some website referred the traffic, e.g. a link in an article on another website. ‘Organic’ means that one of a predefined set of search engines referred the traffic in response to a search.
Not sure how Google AdWords traffic is classified… I expect that would be ‘Referral’ as it’s not ‘Direct’ and not really ‘Organic’ either.
Interviewing at Google
I’m sick and tired of seeing Google’s bullshit “this stuff matters” advertising as part of their latest privacy policy update (which I’ve been doing my best to ignore).
As I was complaining about it I thought I’d try and find some examples of their hypocrisy. I’m fairly sure I’ve seen articles before where people said their job for a Google interview was to process gigabytes of web logs. If you’re data-mining web logs to *spy* on people on the one hand and then telling people you’re protecting their privacy on the other hand then you’re a lying sack of shit really, aren’t you?
Anyway, I didn’t find what I was looking for in a big hurry and I don’t really have time for this, so I’m giving up on my little fact finding mission and just going back to ignoring the whole thing.
However, during my web search I found this article, My Job Interview at Google, which seems like a fairly content rich article. I’m particularly interested in the resources that the guy linked to in his post. So figured I’d swing by my blog and make a note so that when I have some free time (hey, could happen) I can go over that post and read the reference material.
Google webmaster tools
I decided to have a look at the Google Webmaster Tools. I’ve setup accounts for jsphp.co and www.progclub.org. So far I’m not very impressed at all. Maybe it’s because the accounts are just new, but there is basically no data in any of my sites, so it’s not very useful at all. I guess it’s just wait and see if data ends up being loaded or not.