Tag: Google

  • Official Google Blog: At long last, real-time stock quotes are here

    Google announced today that they would finally be providing real-time NASDAQ quotes for free on Google Finance.  This is great news, and, hopefully, the opening volley in the battle for democratized market data from exchanges around the world. Official Google Blog: At long last, real-time stock quotes are here Tags: google, googlefinance, nasdaq, market-data, investing,…

  • Google Desktop for Linux

    On June 27th, Google released Desktop for Linux. I had looked for a download link on the main Desktop page but it only offered a download of Google Desktop for Windows and Mac. The only download link available that I could find was on the Google Desktop Blog. I installed Desktop for Linux on Ubuntu…

  • Social Mobile Mapping (Mapiki)

    With Google’s release of Google Maps for Australia, I am hoping Google Maps India isn’t going to be that far away. Being a complete outsider to Indian roads and traffic, it would be a very welcome addition to our list of expat related sites and tools that we’ll be relying on after we move to…

  • Ping This!

    Google quietly released their blog pinging service on the same day they released their Code Search service.  It’s a bit late but, hopefully, it will help improve their blog search results.  They have said that they will continue to monitor other pinging services as well. Here’s some information to get you started.  Google Blog Search…

  • Searching Source Code

    Google announced two new services, Google Code Search and Google Blog Search Pinging. In this post, I’ll discuss Google Code Search. Google code Search is meant to be able to search through publicly available source code based on regular expressions, strings, license type, and a few other criteria. I haven’t done any exhaustive tests on…