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There are quite a few Ngram datasets available https://www.google.com/search?q=download+n-gram+dataset ... these are almost certainly used in many spelling and grammar checkers. (T…

Did you look carefully at the date this was posted on the mailing list? :)

It's up to you if want to take the risk :) There is always a risk in trying something new. It might never pan out, or disappear in a puff of smoke. Nothing would happen if nobody t…

what does it used as the backend? The actual classification system used?

untick autoShuffle in the controls.

then link dropped on hn, to get even more traffic?

Anyone know the criteria for what sites are included?

Seems to be the premise of http://www.majestic12.co.uk/ - looks like it might be failing.

There is a 'Technology' link in the footer. Really nice implementation btw.

The logger was obviouslly there, it was deliberatly collecting the SSIDs and MAC addresses. Possibly a debug option to log the whole packets added during development, and it was ac…

Why? What is the point of this? Surely the point of a 'signup' is to create an account able to login into a webapp (or similar) This appears to just capture the details into a data…

That's not the same. It doesn't sneakily enable Google Analytics to monitor your visitors. You also forgot to make it a clickable link to advertise the service.

tinyurl and other shorteners generally use a 301 redirect, which often does pass 'link juice'. nofollow is usually under the control of the webmaster. Which may or may not be the s…

Why does there need to be a business case? Its quite probable the engineer that built the layer has left (either Google altogether, or just to another team). As its aged its starte…

Oh, dear. reading the article again it does note the demo is not real. /me wanders off to wipe egg off my face.

Look carefully at the source code. Its bogus. Not the etags trick, but the demo itself. The demo is actually just identifying users by hashing the REMOTE_ADDR and USER_AGENT, HTTP …

Are they going to add downward facing camera(s) to capture close to real time Aerial imagery?

Really the Reader "Web App" - is not that exiting. Cloning it is only a matter of a few days work. The interesting bit is the 'backend', the crawler and database, ie the servers th…

A lot of their products are built with GWT https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/ which compiles the client side code automatically. So its more that the code is auto-generated…

Just add /places/ in that URL, then it works... https://maps.google.com/places/united-states/california/san-...

Google Maps have tried this, I guess it failed, because it no longer distributes such urls, but for the most part the old links still work, eg https://maps.google.com/places/ca/bc/…

I agree - the simplicity of the service is great. Can immediately see what it does. For example do those other services come with storage? I can't tell. For parse, it looks like yo…

How is news published on 22Aug news today? Its not 'new'

Nope. Works here. From the UK.

Its from 2009. The first four links in the article have since been redesigned so cant see the menu noted in the article. Bah!