https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/google/ Recent content in Google on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:08:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hurting-the-little-guy-2009-03-16/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:08:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hurting-the-little-guy-2009-03-16/ Today I come back from the dentist, if that wasn’t bad enough news, I get an email from Google AdWords titled Your Google AdWords Approval Status. In the email, all my AdWords campaigns are now disapproved, because of: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-googles-direction-2008-09-02/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:22:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-googles-direction-2008-09-02/ Tonight over discussion was Android and what is Google’s ultimate direction. Have they lost their way, or are they just planning to explode with so many new things that will revolutionize what and how we do things. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-word-clouds-2008-06-21/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:36:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-word-clouds-2008-06-21/ I came across a wicked cool tool at wondle.net . I wanted to create a word cloud for the back of a business card, now I know how. <img src=“http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/05557/Ronald_Bradford_About_2"style=“padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd” /> https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-determines-authoritative-information-2008-06-18/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-determines-authoritative-information-2008-06-18/ I had need to visit a particular store in New York on Sunday on referral by a friend. I knew they had two locations. Like all tech savvy people I googled sports authority new york . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/working-with-google-app-engine-2008-06-03/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:21:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/working-with-google-app-engine-2008-06-03/ Yesterday I took a more serious look at Google App Engine , I got a developer account some weeks ago. After going though the getting started demo some time ago, I chose an idea for a FaceBook Application and started in true eXtreme Programming (XP) style (i. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/log-buffer-94-a-carnival-of-the-vanities-for-dbas-2008-04-26/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:21:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/log-buffer-94-a-carnival-of-the-vanities-for-dbas-2008-04-26/ April 25th, 2008 – by Ronald Bradford Welcome to the 94th edition of Log Buffer , the weekly review of the database blogsphere. Adding to the list of usual database suspects, I have some more alternative considerations for our readers this week. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/media-blob-streaming-getting-a-google-boost-2008-04-23/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:19:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/media-blob-streaming-getting-a-google-boost-2008-04-23/ The 2008 Google Summer of Code MySQL Projects are now available. MySQL has 14 listed projects, one of the ~190 different Open Source products listed. Unfortunately there is no summary to see the total number of projects being sponsored across all products. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/trying-out-google-app-engine-2008-04-12/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:21:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/trying-out-google-app-engine-2008-04-12/ I got my registration for Google App Engine this morning after being Waitlisted previously . Between flying for about 15 hrs tomorrow and then the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo where I’m presenting and running an Exhibitors booth, fat chance I’ll get to look into this much over the next week. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wait-listing-for-google-app-engine-2008-04-08/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:26:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wait-listing-for-google-app-engine-2008-04-08/ TechCrunch announced Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine so I jumped over to http://code.google.com/appengine to register, but I’ve been added to a waitlist. Reading more I see only 10,000 developers were initially allowed to register, I wonder how long that took to fill up. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/microsoft-yahoo-and-open-source-2008-02-10/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:12:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/microsoft-yahoo-and-open-source-2008-02-10/ There has been plenty of press this week regarding Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo. This week the Wall Street Journal Article From Uncertain Future To Leading Yahoo Bid has prompted me to the following observations. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-new-google-maps-feature-terrain-2007-11-30/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:32:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-new-google-maps-feature-terrain-2007-11-30/ So checking Google Maps in the past few days and I see yet another new button, this one [Terrain] https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-at-halloween-2007-11-03/ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:15:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-at-halloween-2007-11-03/ If you didn’t spot it Google Maps – Street View had a Halloween icon. You can see it clearly below as I dragged it over a clear space. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-algorithm-is-banned-in-china-2007-06-29/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:40:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-algorithm-is-banned-in-china-2007-06-29/ This is an image I took yesterday of a billboard “The algorithm is banned in China.”. I don’t get it. This one has “Ask” in the bottom of the image. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/it-doesnt-take-long-2007-06-29/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:33:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/it-doesnt-take-long-2007-06-29/ Google Van is one of the sites now sporting images found as part of Google Street View which has been on line for about a month now. What is the world coming to! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-street-view-camera-2007-06-03/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:48:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-street-view-camera-2007-06-03/ There has been plenty of news about [Google Maps Street View][1] that I blogged about recently. I wanted to know how they do it, well here is how they do it. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-adds-real-time-images-2007-05-31/ Thu, 31 May 2007 05:41:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-adds-real-time-images-2007-05-31/ Yesterday I was amazed to see yet another new feature in Google Maps . A new button [Street View], gives you are real view of the street in question, you can rotate the image around 360 degrees, and move up and down the street. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-for-personal-use-2007-04-06/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-for-personal-use-2007-04-06/ Just as I talked yesterday about Google Maps for Traffic Updates , today Google Maps released a new feature today called My Maps. I’ve just started using it, my first map is incomplete but you can see the workings at Travel Locations https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-for-traffic-updates-2007-04-05/ Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:25:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-maps-for-traffic-updates-2007-04-05/ Saw a new button on Google Maps today called Traffic. Seems they are highlighting traffic congestion. Some real life examples. San Francisco New York . Below is a screen print I took today of the SF area. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewear-2-2006-11-15/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:32:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewear-2-2006-11-15/ I was able to acquire my first piece of Google wear at the recent MySQL Camp Conference. You see a look of cool Google things and little did I know you can buy a lot of it at The Google Store . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-is-both-friend-and-foe-2006-09-25/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:04:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-is-both-friend-and-foe-2006-09-25/ This is an interesting article How Google can make – or break – your company. The plight of a small business that overnight lost it’s high free search results and in the coming months say a 20% drop in sales. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-earth-2006-09-24/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:09:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-earth-2006-09-24/ Google Earth and Google Maps can give you some great views of our planet. Here is a full-time blog just for Google Earth. There’s plenty of amazing things to see, check out Top Ten Coolest Things seen with Google Earth. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-doodles-2006-09-16/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:19:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-doodles-2006-09-16/ Sometimes using that Firefox Google Quick Search causes you to miss out on the best part of the Google Search experience, and that is the Google Doodle . Now while I’m tempted to include one here, I’m respecting the wishes of Google which request you use an official logo and “don’t feed the kangaroo“. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-at-the-simpsons-2006-09-03/ Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:13:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-at-the-simpsons-2006-09-03/ I have a friend that is a DBA with Fotolog . A very novel idea that works well. Worth browsing to see what people take photos of. You never know what you find. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-talk-2006-05-30/ Tue, 30 May 2006 08:24:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-talk-2006-05-30/ Google has like many before it such as AOL, Yahoo and Skype created it’s own online chat program, which you can run with a windows program and which is very neatly integrated into Gmail. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seaching-google-in-klingon-or-elmer-fudd-2006-05-29/ Mon, 29 May 2006 08:22:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seaching-google-in-klingon-or-elmer-fudd-2006-05-29/ Sometimes I wonder how I get to trivial information. Well in the Wikipedia article Google Hoaxes you will find that the Google search engine is valid in a number of unusual languages including Klingon. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2-2006-05-28/ Sun, 28 May 2006 08:19:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2-2006-05-28/ So what is GWT? An extract from the Google Web Toolkit Web Page. _ Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-trends-2006-05-27/ Sat, 27 May 2006 08:15:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-trends-2006-05-27/ With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things. Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewack-2-2006-05-26/ Fri, 26 May 2006 08:21:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewack-2-2006-05-26/ This fad started many years ago, and once I achieved it. Well today, I got the google 1 of 1 result. Here are the rules GoogleWack “Your goal: find that elusive query (two words – no quote marks) with a single, solitary result!