Hummingbird: Google overhauls search engine
Google does lots of things today—Chromebooks, Android, and they’re the 800-pound gorilla of Internet advertising—but when all is said and done, search is still at its heart. So it comes as no surprise...
View ArticleGoogle declares that mobile search tops desktop
The quarters keep going by and PC sales keep going down. Surely, though, you think, “PCs really can fall behind smartphone and tables, can they?” I’m sorry to disappoint you but by one important...
View ArticleHow search worked before Google
When I started using the Internet in the 1970s, it didn’t look anything like it does today, and our search tools were primitive. But when all you have is stone knives and bear skins, you make do....
View ArticleSearching the Internet B.G. (Before Google)
When I started using the Internet in the 1970s, it didn’t look anything like it does today, and our search tools were primitive. But when all you have is stone knives and bearskins, you make do. Before...
View ArticleWickedpedia: The dark side of Wikipedia
Do a Web search on any popular product, event, company, person, whatever. What’s the first site that shows up? Chances are it’s Wikipedia. For better or for worse, people assume that anything they find...
View ArticleRoku Adds Killer App for Internet TV: Cross-Service Search
Roku has long made great, easy-to-use Internet TV streaming boxes. Now it has set itself apart from the pack by adding cross-Internet streaming service searching. I think Roku has its killer app. If...
View ArticleFree software father declared Ubuntu Linux to contain spyware
Richard M. Stallman, aka RMS, creator of the Gnu Public License (GPL) and the Free Software Foundation has announced that as far as he’s concerned, Ubuntu contains spyware and that Linux supporters...
View ArticleYahoo closes one-time Google rival Alta Vista
We knew this day was coming. It was clear years ago that Yahoo was going to close down its Alta Vista search engine. On July 8, Yahoo will shut this once mighty search engine’s doors for good. Alta...
View ArticleMicrosoft Bing-bang-bungles local search
Talk about having things both ways! A few months ago in its “Scroogled” ad campaign, Microsoft was complaining about how Google uses your search terms and Gmail contents to deliver targeted ads. Now,...
View ArticleSolr: The Most Important Open Source Project You’ve Never Heard Of
When I did a story recently about in-demand open source jobs, I wasn’t surprised to hear from Dice that the job market was hot, hot, hot for OpenStack (for Big Data, Hadoop in particular) and for the...
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