I love playing around with Google Suggest (the “search auto-complete” feature). It’s a great time waster, but it also provides some interesting insights into what people often search for. It’s kind of like a mirror of our culture, or at least a fascinating peek into what people consider interesting, or troubling, or worth getting more [...]
Over at Wired, there’s a fantastic, exclusive feature on The Google Algorithm. It’s quite easy to take for granted just how awesome the Google engine is.
We know it works, but we don’t know how it works… except a few mythical bigwigs at Google, anyway. Now, I’m not about to tell you that the Wired [...]
I’m not a fan of software patents, and I’m particularly not a fan of companies who use them as a business model. While the concept of patenting software makes sense, in practice it is a complete mess.
I was therefore saddened to learn that Quintura, an otherwise interesting search startup, has devolved into using a patent [...]
The search engine rankings for January 2010 have just been released, showing continued growth by Microsoft’s Bing at the expense of both Yahoo and Google’s search service.
When combined with comScore’s statistics for November and December, there’s definitely a trend in Bing’s favor — though in November, larger bites were taken out of Aol and Ask’s [...]
A recent tip suggested that even when disabled the Google Toolbar sends data to Google without the user knowing. After doing some digging I’ve found this is only the case if, while using IE8 the user fails to restart the browser after disabling the toolbar from the “Manage Add-ons” window.
This is certainly possible, but [...]
It’s not often that you find a decent commercial utility being given away for free. It’s usually a marginally-useful app or a program for which there’s a better (and often free!) alternative.
Today, however, you can score Driver Magician at no charge from Giveaway of the Day. It’s a very good driver backup, restore, and removal [...]
Giveaway of the Day has done it again! The other day they were offering up Driver Magician Pro for free, and today they’ve gone one better. Until the end of the day, GOTD is providing a free download of Glary Utilities Pro – one of my favorite multi-purpose system maintenance programs.
I’ve mentioned Glary Utilities before. [...]
I’ve written about Easeus Partition Manager before – it’s one of my two favorite post-install tech tools.
There’s one downside to the free version, however: it doesn’t support 64-bit operating systems. And that’s kind of a bad thing. The majority of the customers I’ve seen purchase a new system in the last 6 months have [...]
WinPatrol has been a favorite with geeky types for quite some time. It’s an amazing little tool to complement your antivirus software and keep tabs on what’s going on inside your system. It also comes in two flavors: the basic version (free) and a ‘plus’ version with free lifetime upgrades ($29.95).
In what he’s describing as [...]
Twitter search is a big business these days. Thanks to search partnerships with Google and Microsoft, Twitter is profitable for the first time ever. That doesn’t mean Twitter search is any good, though.
For example, what if you wanted to limit a search to the streams of people you follow? Search.twitter.com can’t do it, but [...]
