A preview of Google's new results page

.. what to think of it

Over on Ars Technica is a post that gives a little trick to get a glimpse of the Google future. With just a tiny dose of JavaScript you can get a new style of results page.

How to get there?

Go to your Google page and paste the following bit of JavaScript in your address bar and hit Go..

javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.com")

Note replace the domain with the correct version you use (e.g. google.nl or google.co.uk, it is not guaranteed that it works on all domains, however.

What do you get?

In the screen shot below you can see some minor changes. (Tip Click image to open it in a new window.)

The most interesting is the left side bar with the bar showing the number of results in the different categories. This gives some clue to what results are available.

For the rest there does not seem to be too much changed. Which is a good thing. The overall minimal look and feel is one of the powers of the Google experience and should not suffer from too many enhancements. No bells and whistles please. Google seems to stick to that approach.

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• google
• preview

The ultimate nothing

.. as in NO thing

I came across the following useful site. Just by chance.

It's a great parody on so many sites out there that have created yet another killer app that is must have any professional user. This is a piece of software that does nothing. NaDa™ is just the thing for those little companies who think they have reinvented and improved the wheel.

As the name suggest NaDa™ does nothing for anybody and better still, is compatible with all Operating Systems. The download is just 1 byte!

This idea can be stretched

One can hardly call this software it is much more than that. It is the ultimate, purest form of software. The Mother of all Software. I coin the new type of Noware (© 2006 Roho). Not to be mistaken with vaporware.

This almost feels like something that can be mashed together in Web 2.0.

Hmm, if only I had not so much programming skills ...

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• nada
• noware
• ultimate
• nothing
• web2.0

Listen to the radio

.. well the computer then

Fridays I am not at my normal daytime profession. I try to dabble a bit at home. And while happily dabbling along I like some music.

I don't like DeeJays. Well, I hate most of them. Just filling up time that could have been filled with music. There are some channels that don't have DeeJays but they not always bring the music I want.

Now there are stations slash web sites like Last.fm that do not have DeeJays and where you have a big influence on what music you hear and also through the set up of the appliaction you are pointed at similar artists and discover many hidden gems.

Here's what I have been listening to lately:

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• music
• last.fm
• favorite

Google Finance launched!

.. now you can see when you should have sold on line

Yep, they have done it again! Google has launched yet another spin off: Google Finance.

With this you can easily track any stock. After entering a company name in the familiar Google Search box you get a page filled with financial information. Enough to keep you satisfied for quite some time.

You get a graph of the current standing of your stock on the NASDAQ or NYSE. This is annotated with relevant news items, so you can see why the price went up or down.

Loads and loads of financial figures, information about the management of the company and way, way more. Simply too much to tell.

To top things of you can also pull together your portfolio and see what it is worth right now and whether your at a huge loss and should hold on or sell to become a millionaire.

Go give it a spin!

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• google
• finance
• stock

Are you Web 2.0 [2]

.. or still trying to ignore it

In a recent post I showed an image with many web 2.0 logos. Web 2.0 has now become an much overhyped bubble sized phenomenon, which many believe does not exist. Even though, I dare to post a follow up.

One of the problem with this great collection of logos was that it was not clickable. You had to search for all these great apps. But not any more! Over on Sacred Cow Dung there is a listing with many many Web 2.0 applications.

I never knew there were so many.

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• web2.0
• applications
• links
• overhype