Archive for November, 2008

Personalized Search with Google SearchWiki

November 20, 2008

Google SearchWiki Launched Google’s launched SearchWiki, a feature of the regular Google.com web search that lets you organize your search result and make notes on sites found in your search results. When you are logged in and search Google you may see (see “SearchWiki Bug?” below) icons and links allowing you to move results up [...]

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Gmail Rocks (more) with New Themes

November 19, 2008

Like I said before Gmail rocks! Now they’ve (almost) added themes, so I can now choose different themes for different browsers. Since I mainly use about 6 browsers on 3 different computers that’s really cool for me. Also this should let me see at-a-glance whether our laptop is logged into my wife’s Gmail or mine [...]

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Yahoo CEO Yang Stepping Out – Will Microsoft Court Again?

November 18, 2008

With Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang on the way out (see: Yahoo CEO Yang to step down) it looks like things are still shaking at Yahoo! after the botched Microsoft deal back in July. Doing a little reading on the subject after reading about Yang’s move in Yahoo (he will still maintain ties to Yahoo – [...]

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Google Site Search – Now with On Demand Indexing

November 16, 2008

Google site search has always been an awesome product, allowing you to search your website using Google’s Search results. They’ve just added on demand indexing to their list of features, but unlike Google Custom Search Engine (Google CSE) Google Site Search will cost you a minimum of $100/yr, though it has more features than Google [...]

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Google Voice and Video Chat

November 12, 2008

Finally, a good (and free) reason to actually consider getting a webcam. I don’t use webcams for remote meetings yet, but having a video chat from within Gmail, could change that. Now, you can start a video chat from Gmail chat! “Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations [...]

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