(P)review of Google’s experimental search features

Posted January 30 2008 2:53 pm by kobewan
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Google has been shaking things up these past few weeks, tweaking the interfaces and functionality of almost all their current services. The most recent has been the five experimental features they've been trying out, aimed at improving your "search experience". The features are: Alternate view for search results, Keyword suggestions, ...

Panasonic developing Google-enabled TV

Posted January 10 2008 8:06 pm by kobewan
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The company which 'til recently was known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (and is now globally known as Panasonic), the world's largest consumer electronics maker, is teaming up with Google to make a TV which has direct access to YouTube and Picasa. The plasma TV is expected to launch ...

Microsoft makes another move in search

Posted January 8 2008 5:51 am by zero
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Microsoft has a long way to go in the fight against Google's search dominance. However, today they made an interesting move in a different search market - big money America. A $1.2 billion deal was made to  purchase FAST, a Norwegian enterprise search vendor. The move will shore up its ...