{"id":414,"date":"2003-06-28T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/"},"modified":"2003-06-28T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-28T00:17:00","slug":"414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/414\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/toolbar2_logo.gif\" width=\"275\" height=\"98\" align=\"left\" alt=\"It's Google Day at Asparagus Pee\" \/>I spent a lot of time today looking at, researching, and thinking about Google.  Among other things, they have a new toolbar beta for Internet Explorer that is similar to the one that&#8217;s been out for awhile, but it adds a very good popup stopper functionality, and an autofill feature that fills in forms automatically based on information you provide. I&#8217;ve only used it today, but it seems to work great, and I&#8217;d encourage anyone to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/index-beta.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/toolbar-beta.gif\" width=\"570\" height=\"30\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Download Google's New Toolbar Beta\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe other thing I ran across was a really cute article on the Google site about how their PigeonRank technology uses clusters of <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/pigeons.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"129\" align=\"left\" alt=\"A Google Pigeon Cluster\" \/>trained pigeons to rank websites by pecking levers to rank them in exchange for lin\/ax, which is a combination of linseed and flax seed. Here are some handy links to various Google stuff I found today:<\/p>\n<table  width=\"65%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"4\" >\n<tr>\n\t\t<!-- Row 1 Column 1 --><\/p>\n<td >\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/press\/zeitgeist.html\">Google Zeitgeist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/b>\n\t\t<\/td>\n<p>\t\t<!-- Row 1 Column 2 --><\/p>\n<td >\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/sitemap.html\">Google Sitemap<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/b>\n\t\t<\/td>\n<p>\t\t<!-- Row 1 Column 3 --><\/p>\n<td >\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/tour\/services\/query.html\">Better Queries<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/b>\n\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n\t\t<!-- Row 2 Column 1 --><\/p>\n<td >\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/technology\/pigeonrank.html\">PigeonRank<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/b>\n\t\t<\/td>\n<p>\t\t<!-- Row 2 Column 2 --><\/p>\n<td >\n   <b><br \/>\n\t\t <a href=\"http:\/\/google.blogspace.com\/\">Google Weblog<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/b>\n<\/td>\n<p>\t\t<!-- Row 2 Column 3 --><\/p>\n<td >\n<b><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/dance.efactory.de\/\">Google Dance?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nOh, by the way, I imagine that in the future, humans will evolve a system of additional stomachs. That way we can stop pulling weeds and spraying RoundUp&#8482; everywhere to grow feed corn for cows, eat the weeds, and skip the middle-man. On a related note, it&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve cleaned my aquarium that my fish have developed an adaptation that allows them to swim in pure urine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a lot of time today looking at, researching, and thinking about Google. 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