January 12th, 2006
Fortune has released their traditional “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 2006, and for the first time Yahoo is in taking the 73rd spot.
Fortune writes:
What makes it so great?
The dot-com spirit lives at the Internet portal, which makes its debut on our list. Onsite amenities include massage, haircuts, dentistry, car wash, oil change, […]
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January 10th, 2006
Jacob Nielsen, an Internet marketer and web usability expert had posted a very good article earlier today titled Search Engines as Leeches on the Web.
The article is makes a great read for anyone, and is summerized as “Search engines extract too much of the Web’s value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create […]
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January 10th, 2006
Google Video Store which was announced last Friday at the CES keynote, is now live.
Since the necessary change, the Google video screen has been divided into 3 different sections: Google Video Store, Popular Video and Random Picks.
The store currently features some old tv shows and current NBA games, and allows a 30 second preview, […]
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January 9th, 2006
Lexxe is a third generation Internet search engine featuring Natural Language Processing technologies. It is fully automatic without human editing involved. Most of its answers come from unstructured texts and webpages on the Internet.
Lexxe departs from the symbolic computing methods of the second generation search engines peaked by Google, to the linguistic computing methods. In […]
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January 6th, 2006
This new tool is interesting, it does not work well (yet?) but makes an interesting toy. Retrievr (http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/) appears to be a flash application. There are drawing tools and a color palette available. Pick a color, pick a thickness for your drawing tool, and sketch out what you’re looking for. The Flickr thumbnails on […]
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January 6th, 2006
BigDaddy is a new Google datacenter which, according to Matt “has some new infrastructure, not just better algorithms or different data. Most of the changes are under the hood, enough so that an average user might not even notice any difference in this iteration.”
What does this means? This means that you can expect the current […]
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January 6th, 2006
So you’re looking for news, something hot, juicy, trying to monitor what’s today’s hottest item, head to Newzingo.com.
Newzingo is a cool tag cloud service for Google news. It is constantly watching Google News for new stories, extracts related “tags” and displays them in a cloud. The bigger the tag is, the hotter it is. So […]
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January 3rd, 2006
No I did not forget about this blog, and no, it is not discontinued…
Due to some unplanned reasons I’ve been gone, and back, and gone and now back again. So, most importantly I am finally back, and postings will be on time again.
Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday season, I know I did. With the […]
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