Google Timelines
On Monday Dave Lester pointed to the release of Google's new timeline view of search results. Found History has often commented on the importance of timelines in public understanding of history
Yuri
Today Google marks the 46th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space launch with another one of its commemorative logos. Clicking on it takes you to search results for "yuri AND gagarin&
Place Names / Time
Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed over the course of 19th century publishing history. Gray's four maps—
Amateur Historical Archaeology with Google Maps
He doesn't call it historical archaeology, and there's nothing to suggest he thinks of it that way, but that's definitely what Michal Migurski's "scar
Google, Miro, and Commemoration
I'm sure many of you noticed the recent controversy over Google's use of Spanish surrealist Joan Miro's work in a logo commemorating the 113th anniversary of the