Posts tagged ‘google’

May 2010
23
Sweet, sweet irony…

Imagine for a moment that you’re a blogger with a fun and exciting website. ( Don’t feel bad about fantasizing – most of us do it. )

Being the conscientious type that you are, you want to check that all the links on your website work correctly.

Lets check with google to see if anyone trustworthy has a validator we can use…

I don’t think I need to say any more, do I?

No… didn’t think so…

[ screenshots taken at 23.55 on 22 May 2010 ]

UPDATE Sadly, W3C have now fixed their site. Ah well… – 24 May

May 2009
13
Candy Stripers

I’m watching old episodes of ER with GB and finally got around to searching Google to find out what a Candy Striper is.

The results from a Google Image Search gives you a surprisingly good idea. Apparently they’re hookers in hospitals… :)

Apr 2009
20
Google Image Search

I’m not quite sure when it happened, but google’s image search has suddenly sprouted a colour selector so that you can filter your results by one of twelve colour groups. The results are surprisingly accurate, although the colour options are rather limiting. Something like Multicolr would have been rather cooler and well within the abilities of the Empire…