Gmail Down…Again
Posted on August 11, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Google Gmail, Internet | Leave a Comment
Though it seldom used to occur, the outages at Gmail are beginning to make one wonder about the reliability of home in the cloud.
There was some problem with Google Apps last week and now a system-wide outage has occurred today that left users pondering…
Search or Email?
Posted on August 10, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Internet, Online Tools | Leave a Comment
Which one do you do more frequently on a daily basis?
According to a new study, almost half of all Internet users use search engines on an average day, though I can’t imagine a day without searching or researching.
Google SA
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under General, Google, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Google SA stands for Google Search Appliance, the aptly described box that resides inside an organizations IT structure and provides employees with high speed search of company documents.
It’s the high end version of the site search capability offered
Cuil Searching?
Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under Cuil, Google, Site News | 1 Comment
A new search engine launched today, its called Cuil (”cool”), and it hopes to prove that its search technology is better than, well……Google.
Unlike Google, which keeps a record (anonymously) of each search conducted by its users, Cuil uses a different search method,
More than 1 trillion…
Posted on July 26, 2008 - Filed Under General, Google, Internet | Leave a Comment
McDonald’s announced in 1963 via signs at all their restaurants — ‘more than 1 billion served.’
Google has just announced an almost unbelievable figure as well. They have now discovered
Craigslist Search
Posted on July 21, 2008 - Filed Under Craigslist, Google | 2 Comments
If you’re a Craigslist user, you know one of the most desired features would be a way to search the entire site at the same time.
For whatever reason, they don’t want you to do this.
Video on Demand
Posted on July 20, 2008 - Filed Under Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Television | Leave a Comment
In a move designed to beat out the local video store and keep people in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com has introduced (to a limited number of users to start) a new online store of TV shows and movies,
Read More..>>Google Templates
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Google Docs, Site News | Leave a Comment
You’ve got a job to do and Google docs is the place you go to do it. But when you get there, you are presented with a blank form. It’s hard to start with a blank document, especially when it should have some sort of standard format.
Read More..>>Google Search Growing
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Internet, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
The climb continues. Google accounted for over 69% of all U.S. Internet searches in June of 2008, that according to new data from Hitwise. What’s even more unbelievable is that even at that level,
Read More..>>YouTube Location Search
Posted on July 12, 2008 - Filed Under Google, YouTube | Leave a Comment
When you upload a video to YouTube, one of the optional fields lets you enter the place where the video was recorded. Now you can restrict YouTube’s search results to videos from a certain location.
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