mike

Search gets personal

2005年06月30日 Posted in: 隨心

Search gets personal

Posted by Sep Kamvar, Software Engineer, Personalized Search Team

With the launch of Personalized Search, you can use that search history
you’ve been building to get better results. You probably won’t notice
much difference at first, but as your search history grows, your
personalized results will gradually improve.

This whole concept
of personalization has been a big part our lives since some of the team
was in grad school at Stanford. We shared an office, which happened to
be the same one Sergey had used before, and we were pretty familiar
with the research he and Larry had done. Related to their work, we
thought building a scalable system for personalizing search results
presented an interesting challenge. We’ve still got a long way to go,
but we’re excited to release this first step. So check out this latest
addition to Google Labs and tell us what you think.

按此回應 | 回應的RSS | 引用通告(3)| (0)

Google Video. Now with … video!

Posted in: 隨心

Google Video. Now with … video!

6/27/2005 11:19:00 AM

Posted by Matthew Vosburgh, Google Video Software Engineer

A couple of months ago we launched a video uploader so you could add your own videos to Google Video. Well, now we’re ready to start displaying all that stuff.

I’ve been amazed by your cool videos. I had never seen a robot dog harassing an iguana before, or a monkey doing karate, and I had no idea you were such good dancers. There’s more than home video, too - like this UNICEF story featuringDavid Beckham.

The clips play right in the page using the brand new Google Video Viewer, which was created by our engineer Aaron Lee using code from the open sourceVideolan project. It works great in both Firefox and IE, and we’ve designed it not to fight with any other video plugins you might have. We’re releasing the Windows version first, with Mac coming soon.

A feature we’re especially pleased with is search within a video, which means you will get a result pointing to the precise spot in the video that matches your query. Try looking for sergey brin and you’ll see what I mean. There are even more people getting creative with video here. So have fun watching, or shoot your own videos - and keep sending them in!

That is Really Good!

回應(1) | 回應的RSS | 暫時未有引用通告| (0)

Google Map

2005年06月27日 Posted in: 隨心

Google Map support
HongKong Skyeyes la…go to found your home la!

按此回應 | 回應的RSS | 引用通告(1)| (0)

大學生創執相軟件賺首桶金一年下載逾10萬次公司進駐科學園

Posted in: 隨心

大學生創執相軟件賺首桶金一年下載逾10萬次公司進駐科學園

【明報專訊】飲宴、外遊拍下一二百張相片實屬等閒事，但全數靠電腦軟件修正，往往花上大量時間。兩名中文大學畢業生年前自創數碼相片自動修正軟件——「快理相」，讓普羅大眾、甚至對電腦一竅不通的電腦盲，只需按一個鍵便「全自動執相」，如補光、加強色彩等，軟件更可應用於拍照手機「即拍即修改」。軟件推出後廣受歡迎，一年多下載數目逾10萬人次，有政府機構及手機供應商已購買版權，令年僅25歲的何應輝及朱凱頌賺取「第一桶金」，揭開創業的序幕。

25歲的何應輝及朱凱頌3年前畢業於中大訊息工程學系。畢業後何應輝率先參加「王統元創新科技與創業獎勵計劃」，以1萬元月薪設計及改良軟件。及後，何應輝再伙同朱凱頌參加由大學、政府及業界合辦的資訊科技創業培訓計劃，成功創立自己的科技公司——昇科有限公司，踏上創業之途，公司更於本年成功進駐香港科學園。何應輝笑說﹕「這些計劃為我們兩個初出茅蘆又缺乏人際網絡的小子提供技術及商業上的意見，才得以成功創業。」

可用於手機相片簡單快捷

這套相片自動修正軟件除可應用在家庭電腦外，亦可應用在手機及錄像機上，成為全球首個手機相片自動修正的軟件，手機拍下來的照片，只需按一個鍵便即時自動修正。何應輝表示，「一般人修正相片都會使用『photoshop』，但使用需花上一定時間，又不是人人懂得使用，所以我們決定開發軟件自動修正相片，使一般的使用者也可以有專業級的編輯效果。」他們的設計更於去年奪得「第六屆資訊科技卓越成就獎」金獎。

規劃署手機供應商買下版權

本港規劃署、手提電話供應商新力愛立信（香港區總代理）及新加坡一間公司已購買軟件的版權，使何應輝及朱凱頌賺取約50萬元。他們笑說﹕「我們會朝100萬元的目標進發，希望今年年底可以達到目標。」軟件至今的下載數目已逾10萬人次，軟件的零售版將於下月出售，為100多港元，而網上售價則為30美元（約200港元）。

回應(1) | 回應的RSS | 引用通告(6)| (0)