Wikipedia Search to Challange Google and Yahoo Searches
The Founder of Wikipedia says that Yahoo and Google search will have competition in the new Wikisari.Comment Original post by GameSHOUT
Who Says There’s No News On Christmas?
This is probably not the headline Microsoft wanted to see across the top of the Times Business section yesterday: ” Flaws are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista .” That would be the Vista that’s probably going to be …Comment Original post …
Cool New Chips
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 COURTNEY SHERWOOD Columbian staff writer Chris Kruell, vide president or marketing at Lightfleet Corp., explains his company’s high speed, low-heat processing system as he stands next …Comment Original post by The Columbian
Google Adsense the New Gator?
Web Searching Tips SearchDay Our Daily Newsletter More About The Site Blog Info FREE! Over 150,000 readers depend on our free newsletters to keep up with search engines.Comment Original post by Search Engine Watch
Google Overtakes Yahoo as #2 Most-Visited Site
This year’s round of acquisitions and service offerings have made Google the number two most-visited site on the Internet, knocking Yahoo down to number three, while closing in on Microsoft.Comment Original post by Adotas.com
Wireless hacker pleads guilty, Google searches used as evidence
Court documents are ambiguous and don’t reveal how the FBI discovered his search terms.Comment Original post by Boing Boing
Google Shows Quality Scores For Christmas
Barry Schwartz over at SERoundtable has capture the first sighting of the Google Quality score in an AdWords campaign.He has a screenshot of the new update that I have not been upgraded to yet in our many …Comment Original post …
Speech-friendly textual directions from Google Maps
<<Posted by T.V. Raman, Research Scientist From time to time, our own T.V. Raman shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a technologist who cannot see — tips that sighted people, among others, may also …
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Microsoft in push for targeted online ads
Microsoft Corp. is making a global push to sell targeted online advertisements using data gathered from users of its Hotmail email service, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday.Comment Original post by The San Diego Union-Tribune
Google Talk Getting Some Sort Of Phone Service
Google Enterprise VP David Girouard spoke to InternetNews, and he dropped a lot of interesting info. Chief among them: Google Talk “will be beefed up to integrate with traditional phone systems as well as VoIP offerings from other vendors”. That …
Google News Mobile Adds Personalization
Steve Rubel reports that Google News Mobile now lets you personalize the layout of the page, and even add custom sections. Now you can create a Google News page to view on your cell phone or other mobile device and …
Comscore: Google Tops Yahoo In Unique Visitors
Comscore released their stats for November, showing Google slightly edging out Yahoo for second place, 475.5 million visitors to 475.2 million (out of a total internet population of 736 million). Microsoft continued to hold first place, with 501.7 million visitors. …
Other 2006 Holiday Logos
Here’s a rundown of other search engine’s logos for the holidays: Yahoo ran a nice Flash logo with falling snow and a skating penguin and gingerbread man. Reload the page to see the animation from the beginning. Here’s the non-Flash …
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales planning a search engine
SAN MATEO, California: Jimmy Wales, founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is planning a search engine in collaboration with online shopping firm Amazon.com. The search engine, called Wikiasari, could be a …Comment Original post by Earth Times and software by Elliott …
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links for 2006-12-26
Why I left Microsoft – scottberkun.com Scott gives a lot of insight on the decisions that have shaped his career path, that led him to and away from Microsoft. (tags: microsoft job career) Original post by Nathan Weinberg and software …
NASA and Google to bring space exploration down to Earth
NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data …Comment Original post by North Texas e-News and software …
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The Year in Infotech
Researchers at Cornell University are working on microelectromechanical systems, such as the tiny silicon mirror and carbon fibers shown above, to create small, efficient projectors.Comment Original post by Techreview.com and software by Elliott Back
Wikipedia Founder Launching Search Engine…
“Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!,” according to The Times .Comment Original post by The Huffington …
Korea’s Small Firms Find It Hard to Grow Big
When the former student activist Lee Chul-sang got together a group of Seoul National University engineering graduates in September 1997 to set up the mobile phone battery firm Viable Korea at the age of 30, …Comment Original post by Chosun …
Sage TV Adds Google Video
Sage TV, the digital video recorder software for Windows and Linux, introduced version 6 this week, and it features a front-end for Google Video. Within the Sage interface, you can search Google Video and watch the videos on your TV …