My RSS Database – Google Reader

Think RSS is dead? Think it’s too slow for the age of streams? Perhaps that’s true for news. But have you ever tried using Google Reader as a private database? In this video I will show you how I use Google Reader in exactly this capacity.
Duration : 0:1:39

Large image databases and small codes for object recognition

Google Tech Talks
May, 8 2008
ABSTRACT
With the advent of the Internet, billions of images are now freely available online and constitute a dense sampling of the visual world. Using a variety of non?parametric methods, we explore this world with the aid of a large dataset of 79,302,017 images collected from the Web. Motivated by psychophysical [...]

Spatial Query Processing Utilizing Voronoi Diagrams

Google TechTalks
August 10, 2006
Mehdi Sharifzadeh is a PhD student doing research at USC this summer for Google. He will be giving a talk on his research as well as his PhD.
ABSTRACT
Efficient spatial query processing in spatial databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and even on-line map systems requires respecting the geometric characteristics of the space of [...]

Making the Semantic Web Accessible to the Casual User

Google Tech Talks
June, 26 2008
ABSTRACT
The Semantic Web presents the vision of a distributed, dynamically growing knowledge base founded on formal logic. Common users, however, seem to have problems even with the simplest Boolean
expression. So how can we help users to query a web of logic that they do not seem to understand? One [...]

Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database in the Cloud

Watch Jeffrey Scudder demonstrate his GData Python Client Library extension that makes it easy to use Google Spreadsheets as a database in the cloud.
http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets
Duration : 0:6:2