March 4, 2010
Many people hope Bing will become a solid competitor to Google because if there is competition, there’s quality. This is one of the reasons why the Bing announcement was received so favorably. After a loud start Bing hasn’t done much to improve. Nor did it show its full potential. In fact, even those people that [...]
February 13, 2010
Search engines are an integral part of the Internet. Could you imagine the Internet without Google? And I am not even talking about all the services that Google offers as a company. Just imagine the Internet without Google search and you will realize how important search engines are. The Internet has billions and billions of [...]
January 26, 2010
There’s something magical in the absence of color and there is something unbelievably inspiring in black and white photography. This is the oldest type of photography and still the most inspiring one. I believe the reason is that when your eye is not focusing on color, you are able to see other things like the [...]
January 20, 2010
Searching Twitter is easy enough. Along with Twitter’s own official search engine, there’s a whole flurry of websites and apps out there dedicated to searching the popular social networking and microblogging service, like Scoopler, Twazzup, and TweetScan just to name a few. By now, we all know the power of Twitter and its users to [...]
January 15, 2010
Learning where your last name comes from can be interesting. Your first name often holds an interesting meaning and descent, linking you to the founding fathers, Hebrew, or even the old Greek. Your surname even more so. Since it’s passed on from father to child, it can be used to track back your family origins [...]
January 9, 2010
Are PowerPoint slides tailored to presentations or are presentations tailored to slides? Normally, it’s the former and I would hate to sit for the presentation where the latter would be the case. The Zen of presentation also dictates that what we say during the presentation is the meat, what the audience sees on the slide [...]
January 5, 2010
Google has been the leading search engine for as long as I can remember. Launched as a small beta start up in 1996 at the domain google.stanford.edu using inexpensive hardware, you wouldn’t think then that it would ever become the success it is today with so few useful Google alternatives available. In fact, in 1998 [...]
January 4, 2010
Everybody knows their way around a search engine, right? So you’d think, but the fact is that an incredible amount of people have a very scarce knowledge of internet searching. These people don’t know how to formulate their queries, instead just ‘asking’ questions to the mighty Google. These people have no idea how many different [...]
January 3, 2010
The other day, when I came to know about Google Dashboard, I thought I’d check out just how much of my life is in Google’s servers. I was shocked with what I saw. I was practically living my life with Google. And the revelation set my brain in motion – that maybe… just maybe, I’d [...]
December 30, 2009
The verb “to google” was officially added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006. As the Official Google Blog clarifies the trademark, it should only be strictly used when you use Google to search. But that doesn’t stop us from using alternative search engines to search for people, does it? [...]
