{"id":555,"date":"2011-11-22T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/?p=555"},"modified":"2011-11-22T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:30:53","slug":"r-i-p-googlelookup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/2011\/11\/22\/r-i-p-googlelookup\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. GoogleLookup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquared.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-556 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"googlesquared\" src=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquared-300x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquared-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquared.png 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-564 alignleft\" title=\"googlelookupmap\" src=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlelookupmap-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlelookupmap-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlelookupmap-1024x847.png 1024w, https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlelookupmap.png 1095w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learned today that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=155179\" target=\"_blank\">Google Lookup<\/a> is going away at the end of the month.  <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/05\/12\/what-is-google-squared-it-is-how-google-will-crush-wolfram-alpha-exclusive-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Squared<\/a> is gone too. Both are related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows.html\" target=\"_blank\">phasing out of Google Labs<\/a> applications. \u00a0I wrote about both of these technologies in Chapter 6 of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/?ref=logo#!\/web20conceptsandapplications\" target=\"_blank\">Web 2.0 Concepts and Applications book<\/a> as great examples of APIs and the Semantic Web.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite demo to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/googledocs.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/tips-tricks-googlelookup-in-google.html\" target=\"_blank\">GoogleLookup<\/a> was to enter the name of a US President in cell B2 of a Google Spreadsheet, press the CTRL key and drag it down a bunch of rows&#8230; using Google Sets \u00a0to generate the names of several other famous Americans (Ben Franklin makes the list, and he was never a president.) Then the formula =GoogleLookup(B2, &#8220;place of birth&#8221;) entered in cell A2 returned the birth places of<\/p>\n<p>each. \u00a0 This sets up the values to easily plot on a map.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More screenshots after the jump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-560\" title=\"googlesquare\" src=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquare-300x203.png\" alt=\"Google Squared\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquare-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/googlesquare.png 773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/presidentmap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-557\" title=\"presidentmap\" src=\"http:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/presidentmap-300x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/presidentmap-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/presidentmap.png 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned today that\u00a0Google Lookup is going away at the end of the month. Google Squared is gone too. Both are related to the phasing out of Google Labs applications. \u00a0I wrote about both of these technologies in Chapter 6 of my Web 2.0 Concepts and Applications book as great examples of APIs and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cis.bentley.edu\/mfrydenberg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}