Tag: Google

Three Programmers Turned a Dating Website Into a $1,650,000,000 Product in 2 Years Beating Google and Microsoft

Back in 2005, the Internet was not what it looks like today. Before 2005, people had just started using the Internet to: Communicate with each other using Gmail. Play basic browser-based games. Share blogs, photos and music. But a massive component of what the internet would look l...

4 Books Recommended by the Founder of Google That You Should Read

Ever find yourself wondering what fuels the minds of tech giants? Well, you’re in luck. Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, isn’t just a wizard with algorithms; he’s also an avid reader with a taste for transformative literature. He recommends some of the best books that wi...

How a high-level Google data scientist found success (and a fulfilling creative outlet) on Medium

  Cassie Kozyrkov  is the Chief Decision Scientist at Google. So what does that mean she does all day? “Everyone asks me that!” she says. “The truth is, what I do day-to-day varies a lot, and you’ll be disappointed to know what the one constant is. The t...

TextFX by Google: AI-Powered Innovation for Writers, Wordsmiths, and Rappers in 10 Unique Ways

Afresh breeze is blowing in the realm of linguistic tools, and its name is TextFX. Powered by Google, it boasts an array of ten innovative features, promising to radically redefine how we use words and language. Today, we’ll embark on a journey through each one, giving you a sense of their myr...

Integrate Google Maps Into the Jetpack Compose App

Today we are gonna talk about how to integrate maps into your Jetpack Compose app. For that, we are gonna use the Maps Compose Library. “The Maps Compose library contains composable functions and data types that let you perform many common tasks.” According to Maps Compose Libr...

Android Mastering the Integration: Coexisting Google and Huawei Mobile Services in a Single…

Hello dear Android developers, today I will give you information about using HMS and GMS libraries over a single code base. We will also make an example of using Google Maps and Huawei Map Kit in the same project as an example. If you’re ready, let’s start! First of all...

You’re Potentially F*cked If Google Dies Tomorrow — Unless You Do This

It’s no secret that Google has faced its biggest existential threat in the last 12 months. ChatGPT. For years, Google watched its growth go unchecked. Billions upon billions of dollars have been raked in over the last two decades: Screenshot from Statista.com But now Googl...

How a high-level Google data scientist found success (and a fulfilling creative outlet) on Medium

The truth is, what I do day-to-day varies a lot, and you’ll be disappointed to know what the one constant is. The true misfortune of human adult existence is no matter what your job is, most of it is email. And meetings. That’s what one does all day: email and meetings. But if you’...

I failed 2 times before joining my dream company: Google

Last year 2022, I landed my dream job at Google as a Software Engineer. It has been 5 years since I first applied to Google back in my college time. I failed 2 times before I finally succeeded on my third attempt. I wanted to take this chance to retrospect on my journey to Google. It was not easy, a...

Life After Google: What the End of Data Monopoly Could Mean for Your Privacy

In an age where our lives are increasingly digitized, Google has become the omnipresent guardian of information, helping us navigate everything from the nearest coffee shop to complex algorithms. But what if this monopoly were to end? What would the world look like, and how would this seismic shift ...

Search and Earn $10-$200 on Google (with Proof)

It feels great to be rewarded for doing simple tasks that don’t require experience or skill. So let’s take a look at the evidence first so you can believe me. Here’s proof fr...

How To Get Started with IaC for Google Cloud

With the advent of Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools, cloud infrastructure has become more accessible and its setup reproducible. Provider-specific tools like AWS Cloud Formation or provider-agnostic tools like HashiCorp Terraform have since allowed engineers and developers to m...

3 Advanced Ways to Increase Your Google Rankin

Three months ago, I posted “3 Instant Ways to Increase Your Google Ranking”. This article discussed three effective and straightforward methods for boosting your website’s organic traffic on Google: Creating content (E.g., Hosting a blog) Improving the webpage quality (Perf...

3 Instant Ways to Increase Your Google Ranking

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a highly complex subject area. Not for nothing, there are many highly-paid experts in this field. Similar to programming, no one has mastered the subject 100%. While it's tough to reach the tip of the iceberg, the first steps to getting visible on Google in...

GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT23 — THE NEW GOOGLE WAY TO CLOUD

Google Cloud recently conducted its flagship annual technology conference GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT23 at Moscone Center in San Francisco as an in-person event between August 29th and 31st, 2023. Well, it started with the tagline as “The New Google Way to Cloud” & key notes starting from our ...

The ChatGPT Hype Is Over — Now Watch How Google Will Kill ChatGPT.

It’s happening. OpenAI’s losing the AI race. Remember those days when ChatGPT was everyone’s topic of conversation? Yes, you do. Remember those days when BeReal was everywhere? Yes, you do. Remember those days when Vine was the most trending app? Uh, maybe?...

How to Get Started With Iac for Google Cloud

Stop using Google Translator! Build your own AI application

In today’s globalized world, communicating with people from different countries and cultures has become increasingly important. However, language barriers can often hinder effective communication. While Google Translate has become a popular tool to bridge this gap, it has its limitations, espe...

Deduplicating software bugs with Machine Learning at Google

I’ve been working at Google for about three and a half years. Back in 2021, we were facing a little problem. A team we were working with had too many duplicate bugs. How did they get in this situation? Well, Google runs automated tests. Thousands of them. Millions of them. Some run autom...

Delysium partners with Google Cloud: A Unified Vision for AI-Driven Web3

We’re thrilled to share that Delysium is now an integral part of Google Cloud’s AI & Web3 Startups Program. Together, we’re determined to dismantle traditional Web3 barriers, ensuring that an AI-driven Web3 isn’t just a concept but a tangible reality. With the combined ex...

Use Google Bard as Your Own Personal Recommender

Many websites will offer their recommendation engines but they don’t always deliver what you would expect. I.e. after listening to particular songs on Spotify it will continue playing “similar” songs. But in my experience, they are never the ones I want to listen to. In other cases...

The ChatGPT Hype Is Over — Now Watch How Google Will Kill ChatGPT.

I’ve written an article analyzing how Google Bard will destroy ChatGPT because it’s a long-term game, and Google has the upper hand in terms of market dominance. ChatGPT has a better product, but that doesn’t mean they’ll win the long race. This was quite the trending arti...

Google Quietly Introduced An AI Product That Could Kill The Schooling System We Know.

It’s not scary. It’s a shift. Can you imagine a classroom without a teacher? Do you believe your great-grandchild would be taught well without guidance from a human teacher? This sounds super duper scary, right? I agree, it does. But you know what? The idea that you cou...

How I Used Python to Make Everyday Tasks Easier

Hey there! As a busy person with a lot on my plate, I’m always looking for ways to make my life easier. One way I’ve found to do this is by automating tasks using Python. In this article, I’ll share some of the ways I’ve used Python to automate my life and make my day-t...

Google Quietly Introduced An AI Product That Could Kill The Schooling System We Know.

How "Google Keep" Keeps Me on Track

If you're searching for a top-notch personal note-taking app, you can't go wrong with Google Keep. I know, I know, everyone might be saying, "Wait a minute, Anshul, you're an Evernote guy, isn't Evernote awesome?" Evernote is fantastic, but better choices exist for a ...

How "Google Keep" Keeps Me on Track

You’re Potentially F*cked If Google Dies Tomorrow — Unless You Do This

8 Lessons from my Mentors at Google

I started at Google just over five years ago. A year before that, I was a TVC. Nothing ever really stays the same at a place like Google. People come and go, priorities change, and culture evolves. That hit home for me this year especially. In just the first half of this year, two of my closest ment...

5 Lessons on Career Growth From a Google Exec

For the past 10 years, I have been on an accelerated career growth path. I went from Jr. Engineer to Engineering Director, navigated through 2 acquisitions, held over 1000s interviews, and built teams and engineering organizations. From my own experience and from the experience of helping other p...

Your Meeting Needs a Google Doc

A little while ago, an engineer scheduled an early morning meeting on my calendar. “Sync on Project X,” it read. The invite was scheduled for an hour, and included another engineer as well as their engineering manager. The goal of the meeting, presumably, was to talk about Proje...

Querying calendar events via the Google Calendar API

Do you want to pull all meetings & events from your or any shared Google calendar via the Google calendar API in Python? This blogpost provides step-for-step instructions on how to setup authentication, request calendar events and handle the pagination token. For th...

Use Google Calendar? Check Out These Productivity Updates

If you’re using Google Calendar for any part of your business, you’ll want to know about some recent productivity enhancements Google has added to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, Google’s cloud-based office suite). Even if you don’t — maybe you’re a Microso...

2-Minute Org Charts in Google Sheets

Everyone probably has their go-to application for creating stunning, readable organizational charts — but when you need to whip one up in a hurry it’s not always worth the effort of firing up Illustrator or your design software of choice. When you just need something presentable in a hur...

Google terminated Our Google Play Developer Account Without Any Satisfactory Explanation. We were able to talk with a human support team which left us in further state of shock and puzzled as we were not expecting such an unprofessional response.

Our Google Play developer account was created in 2017, which was terminated on June 08, 2023 due to association with a terminated account by a google bot. Multiple appeals were rejected with the same email of “prior violation with this or already terminated account from Google bots (Jack &...

Why I Chose Google Firebase as My Server Solution for Unreal Engine 5

So, long story short — I am working on an online multiplayer RPG game on Unreal Engine 5, and I chose Google’s Firebase for the server solution instead of the traditional Unreal headless server. But why? Well, before diving deeper into the why, I need to establish conte...

Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF and Well-Architected Frameworks (AWS, Azure and Google)

This article aims to explain the differences between TOGAF and the Cloud Architecture Frameworks / Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Are you interested in understanding how these frameworks can be merged? This article provides some insight into these topics without delving too deeply into the specif...

How to get FREE Certification Exam Vouchers For AWS , Microsoft Azure, Google & Oracle

Hello everyone, I hope we are all doing great. I would like to share with you some tips and links on how to get free certification exams from the top cloud providers in the world. Follow my profile so that you could get my latest tips on how to get free certifications and courses that are high in...

Google Cloud Recipe — Cloud Run Service — Hello, World!

This recipe uses terraform to deploy a Hello, World! Express web application served from Google Cloud Run, behind a Regional External Application Load Balancer. This recipe aims to comply with data residency requirements. You can check out the source a...

A Simple Guide to Buying the Right Google Pixel

Which one of Google’s latest smartphones is for you? On the face of it — bar some design flourishes and a larger display on the Pixel 8 Pro — these are largely the same device. They share the same chip, many of the same AI features, an incredibly similar camera system, and ident...

Google Pixel 7a Review — vs Pixel 7 and Pixel 6a!

I enjoy this time of the year. It’s when the big tech companies finally start to show us what they’ve been working on. Google, as always, has beaten Apple to it in the smartphone stakes, announcing both the Pixel Fold and the Pixel 7a. You can expect my full review of the former as so...

Apple and Google Won; We Lost.

Darwinism proclaims the idea of survival of the fittest. The creature best adapted to changing circumstances will be the one that lives and flourishes whilst the others will eventually die out. Evolution has been a competition since the dawn of time to see who will claim the next epoch and who will ...

How to mount Google Drive on Linux & Windows systems

In the times of big data, when everything is moving to cloud, it is important to know how to connect our local machines with the online storage space. Google Drive is our backbone when it comes to sharing large dataset online and it becomes vital to be able to access it on the local system. Coding w...

Scraping Google Maps to Measure Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: Real-time EV Charger Data V1.0

Several factors have to be considered to measure how well established the EV infrastructure is within a country. Infrastructure factors include: current number of EVs owned, number of car dealerships, subsidies, number of chargers, and more. Many of these measurements exist online and can often b...

What Google won’t tell you about Istanbul

My most recent trip was to almost the farthest zone of Turkey, Mardin, where I could not even express how significant the cultural differences are. It is interesting that you come across mind-blowing moments that had a wow effect while in the same country and even in your own country. After travelin...

Google Cloud Day Prague 2023 recap: A day of learning, innovation, and networking

Eager attendees started pouring in even before the event’s official launch at 9 a.m. A quick registration, and afterward, you could grab a coffee or full breakfast, mingle among the growing crowd, and wait for the highly anticipated event to officially start. The morning featured keynote pr...

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2023 — Sunnyvale, California

Right after I finished the visa interview, I let the org admins know that I passed it. They asked me to send my travel details to book flights for me. I chose Qatar airways and my departure from Colombo, Sri Lanka was on the 10th October. I stayed in Sunnyvale for 2 weeks, from 10th October — ...

Unveiling the Next Chapter: ChatGPT’s Post-Hype Era in the Shadow of Google

In the dynamic realm of artificial intelligence, few entities have garnered as much attention as ChatGPT. Lauded for its groundbreaking capabilities and met with a surge of enthusiasm upon its release, the platform has entered a new phase — the post-hype era. This exploration endeavors to diss...

Tokyo: A Land Where You Don’t Need Google Maps

Google Maps has become an essential app if you want to travel to some places for the first time. You just input the destination, and the algorithm will calculate how long it takes, what mode of transportation you can use, etc. It’s simple and straightforward, you just have to follow the naviga...

It’s time to sell Google stock (GOOG, GOOGL)

A recent study from AI platform Vectara measured how often the leading AI systems “hallucinate” (make up answers). Google’s (GOOG) AI hallucinated 27% of the time. It answered one in four questions “wrong.” ChatGPT’s hallucination rate was just 3%. Big ...

How I Earned $11,000+ Online With Google Translate

If someone told you that you could earn over $10,000 online using just Google Translate, you’d probably laugh. But in this post, I outline the exact 4-step system I used to profit massively leveraging nothing but free translation tools and AI website builders. And the best part? I barely...

Google Tech Equity Collective Rising Innovators: Ep. 11: Doing The Math

As you know I am currently in the Black Genius Academy, which is an offshoot of the Google Tech Equity Prep program. Since being invited to the beta program, the Black Genius Academy is now in general availability accepting applications from everyone. I am currently on module 2 of the on-demand l...

Growing Up Queer With Google As My Guide

In the tapestry of life, each thread is a story, weaving together a portrait of who we are. My story, an intricate blend of Asian heritage and a rainbow identity, is no exception. It’s a narrative peppered with digital escapades, heartfelt searches, and the kind of humor that only life’s...

Google Bard Can Decode Ancient Writing, and It’s Mind Blowing

Ever since Google released its new version of Bard — the Internet company’s competitor to ChatGPT — with visual capability, I’ve been testing the system out. One feature I discovered is absolutely mindblowing: from a simple image, Bard can effortlessly recognize, tran...

Interpreting 23andme Raw Genome Data with Google Genomics and BigQuery

This article is assuming you already have used a service like 23andme to obtain your raw genome data or you are interested in learning how Google Genomics and BigQuery can help process and draw insights from your genome. If you haven’t used 23andme I highly recommend it if you want t...

Why is the Great Wall of China so hard to find on Google Earth (or Google Maps)?

The Great Wall of China is not actually difficult to find on Google Earth or Google Maps. It is clearly visible on both platforms when you zoom in on the appropriate area. One reason you may have difficulty finding the Great Wall on these platforms is if you are not zoomed in far enough...

Mastering Your Site's Crawl Budget: The Key to SEO Success

As an SEO professional, you know that getting your website's content indexed by search engines like Google is crucial for visibility and traffic. However, even the most well-optimized site can struggle if search engine bots can't effectively crawl and index your pages. That's where under...

From Gumlao to Google: Mastering the Waves of Algorithm Updates

Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of SEO today feels a lot like surfing — striving to maintain balance and readiness to ride the next big wave of Google’s algorithm updates, no matter how unpredictable they might be. Remember when SEO seemed straightforward? A sprinkle of ke...

How Google Earth Mapped 98% of the World

The five-year-old boarded another train thinking his brother was on it. But at the end of the journey, he found himself in entirely new and unfamiliar territory. Saroo was one among the million daily passengers who pass through the largest railway complex in India, Howrah Station in the city of Kolk...

Google Maps Styling in Flutter

Version 0.5.16 of the google_maps_flutter plugin has arrived and it includes the ability to add a custom style to your map! This article will describe an easy way to style your Google Map in Flutter. The new plugin version adds the setMapStyle method to the GoogleMapContr...