Ron Paul’s speech was so popular that Google had to use an overflow room. What a crowd!
Google executive Elliot Schrage: “Usually I end up asking questions for about 20 minutes, half an hour, and then we open this up for questions from our audience here. I’m impressed to say we’ve never gotten so many [...]

(Note: This post’s title has hurt some feelings. It was not intended to refer to any specific blogger. In particular, Lonnie at OMB is actually a very generous person in his charity work. This post is an argument against an idea, not an individual.)
Recently, it seems there’s been a sort of obsession [...]

For the first time in years, I’m absolutely floored by a new Chinese IME. Google just came out of nowhere, slapped their Google Pinyin up for download and humbled the competition. Like other IMEs, Google Pinyin uses a word’s context to figure out which character to input. It’s just a lot better [...]

In a recent Chinese-English and Arabic-English machine translation competition, Google’s entrant demolished the competition, taking first place in 35 out of 36 different categories. Unlike typical teams, not a single person on the Google team speaks either Chinese or Arabic. Their technology is based completely on computational analysis texts written by native speakers. [...]

It looks like the prediction I made last week when Google acquired YouTube is right. The gravy train of free music, videos, and TV snippets at YouTube just might be ending. According to Ars Technica, YouTube just purged over 30,000 videos. This really, really sucks.
Is the gravy train over? (iDrone.net)
And so it [...]

As my long-time readers know, I started my blog on Blogger at http://doubtingtoshuo.blogspot.com. I later moved it to http://toshuo.com mostly because John emailed me and told me I was blocked in China. Wordpress kind of annoyed me at the outset, but I’ve since gotten pretty accustomed to running a blog on my own [...]

Foreign loan words have always been one of the hardest parts of Chinese for me. Despite hearing it millions of times, I still don’t say 拜拜 instead of 再見, or other alternatives. I don’t know why, but for some reason, I just don’t like saying 叩 instead of 打電話, either. Above all, [...]

Since my Google Toolbar for Firefox has a page rank checker built into it, I’ve noticed what page rank various sites have from time to time. My blog stubbornly remained at zero from the time I started it until last week. Now, all of the sudden, it’s five. What’s up with that? [...]

I lost a bunch of data and had to rebuild my site, again. Everything’s back now, thanks to the goodness of Google’s cache of my site. Please mail me if you see anything broken or missing. Here’s what happened:

I asked Hostgator to upgrade my account, so that I could host multiple domains
There [...]

Here’s some news that’s near and dear to my heart. After its last attempt at an anti-porn law was ruled unconstitutional, the US government has demanded information about what users of search engines search for, in order to assist the government make a new law that doesn’t get overturned. Yahoo, MSN, and AOL [...]