The battle for search is still going strong. All search companies are continually tweaking and adjusting their algorithms to help improve their search results and keep those same formulas for being gamed by developers.
 
With Microsoft releasing Bing and Google working on their newest search algorithm called Google Caffeine, there’s a lot of effort around incorporating the idea of social search with your organic results.
One of my biggest complaints about search is that my results are impacted by just about everything that’s available on the web. If I’m searching for a question about a certain topic, I don’t want to get …read more

This post may be pretty basic for many people but I’ve decided I should write-up a quick article about it anyway. I frequently come into contact with people who love using Google and have it set as their default search engine, yet they don’t customize it to their preferences.

There are a variety of settings you can set to tell Google search to act the way you want it to act. If you want to access all of these options, just look for the “Settings” link in the top, right-hand corner of the screen on the main Google search page.

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I have been working on digital collaboration for the last five years and I would continue on working on this field for the years to come. The main technology or platform I use is Microsoft SharePoint which is an enterprise class platform for developing applications across portals & collaboration, documents library, business process and workflows, etc.

The digital collaboration space is growing and the enterprise keeps on implementing and improving their collaboration capability across the whole organization. Google knows this as such they have released Google Wave technology to be able to complete in a vertical market. I have signed up …read more

My good friend Dr. Thomas Ho made me aware of a development from Google this evening that I think will be pretty interesting if executed well. And let’s be honest, most of what Google does is done fairly well.

It appears that Google will be adding some social search functionality to their toolbox. Currently in development in the Google Labs, we’re told it should be coming publicly available soon.
The idea is that when you search, there will be results offered from those in your social networks as well. So, if you’re searching for images, you can bet that your friends images …read more

We have reported multiple times that the computer industry is in the rebound and as such, this is the best time to update your resume, post them on job boards like Monster.com, Dice.com and other job classified ads.

The tech companies who are on the rebound includes Intel, Asus, HP, Dell. Chuck Malloy from Intel who said in an interview with MaximumPC that they cannot save their way out of recession but rather spend their way out. Intel has increased demands as manufacturers like Asus, HP, Dell have made increases in their hardware manufacturing demands going into October and towards …read more

I have been looking forward for the Google Wave release and I got a little frustrated when I missed to sign-up on the developer preview they offered before. Google Wave is said to be a collaborative platform and I am not only a big fan of Digital Collaboration; but it is my career. I am itching to make that comparison between Google Wave and SharePoint and see if they can interact with each other through the APIs.

Anyways, Google has announced they are releasing around 100,000 invitations to preview the Google wave. Those invitations are most likely to be sent …read more

I have always used Google and recently, the launch of Bing makes me move to the new search engine seeing at another set of search engine results. Sometimes, I cannot decide which one to use the given moment. Good thing a developer named Domagoj Pavlesic has decided to make things easier as he has launched bing-vs-google which allows you to search and compare the results side by side.

The interface is not well designed but if you are looking to compare results especially when you are checking search engine ranking of your keywords, the bing vs google is definitely functional.
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Last night, nerves could be heard rattling in Redmond when Google confirmed long-suspected plans to launch its very own operating system. Chrome OS is being targeted at lightweight, inexpensive notebooks known as “netbooks.” But it’s worth noting that, in Google’s own words, “Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.” (Emphasis mine.)

Following the success of its Chrome web browser, Google says that a bare-bones operating system is the next logical step for them, representing an attempt …read more

Jumping on your computer and quickly firing up your browser to search for something has become second nature to most of us. Opening your search engine of choice and throwing a couple of terms in the text box doesn’t take much thought. The question is are you fine-tuning your actions to get a manageable collection of results or are you pulling back a collection of haystacks looking for that one needle.

There’s a number of tips you can manage to add to your searching routine to help pull back that finer tuned section of results you’ve been looking for all this …read more

I loaded Gmail tonight and was welcomed with a notice that there’s been a little bit of an interface change. They’ve added some AJAXy ability to drag and drop messages onto your defined labels to label the messages.

You can see the little handles on each message line on the far left side of the message. You can then drag the message on top of the label you want to apply to the message. Not the major improvement from their perspective, but I really like the fact they moved the labels up to be positioned right under the standard groupings of …read more