Interesting things at Google
- Google has brought the lead engineer of Firefox onto their payroll, while still leaving him on the Firefox project, which has sparked much talk.
- In another movie-related note, someone with a sharp eye noticed that as of a few hours ago, Google setup a 'video.google.com' subdomain and a '/video' directory, both of which direct back to the main page.
I have a feeling we'll have an idea of what's going on with Firefox/XUL at some point in the future, but it looks as though the google video search is related to Yahoo's recently launched video search which came out of its acquisition of AltaVista. Basically, the entire web, no matter what the medium, is slowly becoming trawl-able across the board.
Yahoo's is interesting in that it allows you to things with RSS, and with video search they've introduced 'Media RSS', which is basically RSS 2.0 with enclosures, similar to how podcasting it done.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 24, 2005, at 08:50 PM
