Practical Technology

Well, we saw this coming. Google is integrating its social networking site, Google+ and its photo-sharing site Picasa with Google search. What this means is that in “Search, plus Your World” when you do a Google search your results will be personalized for you. Specifically when you do a search you’ll see: 1. Personal Results, [...]

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If I hadn’t read it on Microsoft’s own Bing blog, I wouldn’t have believed it. The Microsoft Bing team has just released the new Bing for Mobile app for iPhone and Android… but not for Windows Phone 7 devices. Wow. Just wow. More >

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Who doesn’t trust their search engine? When we need to find something, we all turn to Google, Bing, or Yahoo. We shouldn’t be so trusting through. On Bing, cyber-crooks are now placing ads to ensnare people who want to switch to the Chrome Web-browser. Now, we find that some U.S. Internet Service Providers (ISP)s are [...]

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Bad Microsoft! Bad! No biscuit for you! If Microsoft were a dog, I’d be scolding it for its latest foolishness. It turns out that rather than searching the Internet on its own, it’s been riding the coattails of Google. This isn’t just a theory. Google set up a clever trap, and Microsoft’s search engineers fell [...]

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Jeff Dean, a Google Fellow who has been with the company since 1999, gave a speech at the Web Search and Data Mining meeting in 2009 where he unveiled how Google puts together its data centers (PDF). Because the meeting was in Barcelona, Spain, his speech didn’t receive the attention it deserved in the United [...]

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