Stats On Google Gadgets
Niall Kennedy did earlier this month an exhaustive analysis of Google Gadgets, coming out with a lot of graphs, facts and figures that would make your head spin. If you’re a geek for infoporn, you’ll love his post on it.
A taste:
- The average Gadget is 181 pixels
- 20 or so Gadgets require you to be using Firefox
- Google’s 48 Gadgets account for 44% of all Gadget page views
More stats at this post, too.
Alex Iskold did a look at current mashup/API trends, and he’s got a lot of stats, including that Google Maps is used in 50% of all mashups.
An interesting look by O’Reilly at Google’s philosophy on external data sources. Google doesn’t trust external APIs, and thus just copies and uses the data locally. That has all sorts of implications, including regarding the rights of creators, but also makes me question if there is a problem if Google gives but doesn’t take.
You want more stats? How about the porn industry’s claim to be bigger than Google/Microsoft/Amazon/eBay/Yahoo/Netflix/Earthlink combined. Watch as they claim every vaguely adult-related business falls under the “porn” category.
Oh, and Google Maps was showing an anti-Microsoft image when you searched for Microsoft. “It was an accident!” Sure, sure.
Actually, I do think that logo thing was an accident. I’m not even sure their infrastructure even allows for such small-scale tampering - but moreover, it’s not really their style.
Google’s “jokes”, be they on April fools day or not, are usually somewhat funny, eloquent, preferably not offensive to anyone (or turn out to be an actually working mail service that I expect to have 3 gigabytes of storage in a few days).
This doesn’t fit their humor profile. It’s too much like a direct attack. It would, quite simply, be childish.
Now, if this were another company, that lowered CPU speed by 5% if you used the wrong browser, or let their browser crash if you browsed to apple.com, I might’ve bought it.
Oh, and speaking of Gmail, you should do a post asking people to guess how much storage we end up with at the end of April 1st - winner gains bragging rights. =P
Comment by Tim | March 27, 2007
If you’re looking for the most popular Google Gadgets already set up for you on a really funky site? Then check out Funky Homepage (http://www.funkyhomepage.com). It’s comprised mainly of the most popular Google gadgets (as well as some great Gadgets from other sources), live news feeds (with your choice of news provider), daily Bushisms, daily jokes, horoscopes, videos, weather (up to 5 locations), interactive calendar, Google calendar viewer (for up to 5 Google calendars), comic strips and lots more besides. It also lets you choose your own search engine, colour scheme, etc.
The whole website is subdivided into tabs and sub-categories, like “News”, “Tools” and “Fun Stuff”. So you’ll find some really useful Google gadgets like currency converters, unit converters, messengers, email tools, maps, etc. already set up for you under “Tools”; and fun stuff like games, videos, jokes, etc, already set up for you under “Fun Stuff”. The “Start” tab is fully customisable and lets you choose your own news providers and gadgets from a drop down list of the most popular gadgets available. No more wading through millions of gadgets just to find the ones that work and that are of any use! No more having to create an account and sign in! Start using Funky Homepage and get started using the most popular feeds and gadgets right away. All your settings are remembered with no need to create an account.
It’s free to use and you can check it out at http://www.funkyhomepage.com
Comment by Neil Williams | May 31, 2007