Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post.

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Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

Keep an eye on changing pages

Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes . This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed

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Keep an eye on changing pages

PubCon 2009 talk: State of the Index

If you followed @googlewmc on Twitter you would already know about this , but I recently recreated my “State of the Index” talk from PubCon in November 2009. Here’s the video of the talk below: And here are the slides if you’d like to follow along: The talk is almost half an hour, so I hope you enjoy it and learn something new!

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PubCon 2009 talk: State of the Index

Google earnings via YouTube webcast?

Huh. This looks new

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Google earnings via YouTube webcast?

More info about synonyms at Google

Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog.

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More info about synonyms at Google

More info about synonyms at Google

Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog. A lot of people seem to think that Google only does simple-minded matching of the users’ keywords with words that we indexed. The truth is that Google does a lot more sophisticated stuff than most people realize

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Important blog post on Google blog

This is an important blog post .

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Important blog post on Google blog

A short note about real-time search

This is just a quick blog post to share some info about Google’s real-time search based on the earthquake that shook the Bay Area this morning.

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A short note about real-time search

Looking back ten years

Ten years ago this month I paused working on my Ph.D., eloped to a courthouse to marry my lovely wife, and went for a hastily organized honeymoon cruise in the Caribbean.

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Looking back ten years

Live-blogging the Nexus One phone

Added : – The official web page for the Nexus One is http://google.com/phone – There’s a YouTube channel for the Nexus One . – And here’s the official blog post about the Nexus One .

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Live-blogging the Nexus One phone

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