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Crazy! I wouldn’t mind a go though

Girl in human sling shot - Google Video

Been doing a bit of analysis on adwords reports recently and happened upon this handy tidbit in the help section

Reports over 100 megabytes (mb) in size can be downloaded in .xml format only. We recommend splitting reports of this size into multiple smaller reports covering fewer keywords and/or shorter date ranges, which can then be viewed in all formats.

I finally this slightly odd. If I were to take 100mb of ascii data as a csv it’s going to be mostly data and maybe a few kb for the commas. On the other hand if I take 100mb of data as xml it’s going to be an extra 60mb or so for all the tags. They do zip the files before they are dished out so I suppose it’ll compress just as well but still it’s a bit crazy logic.

Google has a sense of humour

Google Maps had been upgraded it would seem.

You can now zoom to the location indicated by the mouse pointer using your mouse scroll wheel. It happens to be the one feature i’ve been hoping for, I always found it annoying to have to use the little zoom bar.

Well done all at the labs !

You remember being a kid and wondering “if I started to dig in the garden, will I get to Australia?”

Well you can find out with this Dig a hole Google Maps application. Smart and fun use of the API!

Unfortunately, from my back garden I ended up in the ocean just off New Zealand!

Been checking out the interesting Google Trends and I wasn’t expecting to show up in there…

Seems I had a sudden bout of fame at the start of the year but my popularity has waned somewhat