Public Demo of Overflight Coming
November 13, 2008
A version of the ArnoldIT.com Overflight intelligence service will be made available on Monday, November 17, 2008. You will be able to access the service via a link in the Beyond Search Web log post.
What’s Overflight? In a nutshell it is a round up of what’s new at Google. The information sources are published by Google. Each of the sources is public, but most of the sources are not well known nor are the contents easily available in one dashboard.
A number of people asked me how I kept track of Google many activities. Instead of trying to explain one of my techniques which have been available to my clients for years, I decided to put up a sample of the service. The demo site provides useful but no frills information. The for fee version of the service which was used first for the Threat Open Source Information Gateway after 9-11 to 2006 when I stepped away from that business sector.
With Overflight, I can scan multiple pages of Google information, identify an interesting topic, and then perform other operations. The demo site does not include my search and content processing options. I will see what type of traffic Overflight attracts and make a decision about the search component in the next month or so.
Because this is a demo, I am not prepared to make a commitment to keeping the service online, free, or publicly available. When I post the link, take a look. You will find that comments by Google executives are often explicitly stated in one or more of these Google information sources.
What does that mean?
For me, I am able to get a sense of where Google may be going before the action appears in the high traffic Web logs or in a dead trees publication.
Is the service fool proof?
No, nothing I do is fool proof. I am an addled goose.
Stephen Arnold, November 17, 2008
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