Practical Technology

We all use Google. Well, maybe not Bill Gates, but that’s about it. Now, Google is hoping to become an even bigger part of our everyday lives. The key to this is Google’s three new search features: real-time search, location-based service and augmented reality. Think about it: Google has primarily been about computer-based search. You [...]

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I like Google a lot. I couldn’t live without it. Heck, I even found a way to find flu vaccines on it the other day. But, that doesn’t mean I trust its results unconditionally. That’s a good thing. Cyber security research firm, Cyveillance has discovered that more than 200,000 Web sites have been infected with [...]

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“Brains! Must have Yahoo advertising brains!” That might have been Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s call as he finally made a deal for Yahoo. Sure, it looks like Yahoo still exists as an independent company, but in reality, Ballmer’s bite has turned it into a Microsoft zombie. Yahoo has agreed to let is search engine brain, [...]

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What started as a normal weekend morning for Internet users turned into a paranoid panic when the Google search engine started reporting that every site – and we mean every site – was contaminated with malware. To quote my friend Bob, who woke me up this morning at 7 AM with the news, “What the [...]

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People have this delusion that the Web is a fount of all information. That, if you look hard enough with Google and other search engines, you can find all the answers. That’s crap. Let’s look closely shall we? Google, in honor of its 10th birthday, has put up a site that lets you search the [...]

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