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Archive for May, 2008

Google Health Launches

Google Heath offers to help diagnose, look for drug interactions and store your consolidated health records. Does anyone else think this is a bad idea? Why should Google be able to amass all this data and sell the “non-confidential” statistics it gathers? And why would I trust my medical records to a beta software program […]

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Cash For Search? Only From Microsoft

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Microsoft will give you cash back for searching your next purchase on their Live Search! product search. Not that they need to as it’s already better than Google’s product search. It includes shipping costs making the results more reliable when searching for the least expensive purchase of useless cat […]

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Microsoft To Take Over Yahoo!? (Yawn)

If the news lately sounds all the same (Britney Spears in court, sunny in Hawaii today, etc.), well, it’s because it is. Yup, Microsoft is again trying to buy Yahoo!. Not totally unexpected as Yahoo! has been getting cozy with Google. Yawn. Just taking a wait and see attitude here. It will be a long […]

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Make Any Site Social

The Internet is buzzing about Google’s new site social endeavor called Friend Connect. Check out more on their blog…..
Google Press Center: News Announcement

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Need Help Blogging? Live Writer to the Rescue

Microsoft can occasionally do things correctly including help you blog better. The Windows Live Writer is an excellent tool for adding entries to your blog (or blogs) that many are raving about. It allows creation of blog entries even while you are offline and makes integrating photos easier than most built in blog editors. It’s […]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Is Google Synonymous With Smart Search?

There’s a great discussion about Google’s seeming ability to provide results that include synonyms. This confirms some of my findings. Google seems to be giving more relevance to user provided data than linking in certain cases. No surprise here but good to have evidence. Read more about it here….
Stemming of complex plurals - Crawling, […]

Monday, May 5th, 2008