Blurring the line: Google Desktop
October 14, 2004
Today, Google unveiled a new application that allows you to search your desktop, blurring the lines between desktops and the web. This is yet another example of what I call hybrid computing, the new class of software that can be augmented through web use. It also has staggering implications for a lot of players. Microsoft Of course, everyone […]
Blog Chatter
April 2, 2004
As I’ve mentioned earlier, I read a lot of feeds. By organizing them in categories, I can easily get an idea of what field is hot. For example, yesterday, upon looking at Bloglines, my RSS aggregator, I knew that something important was happening (or not, considering that it was April 1st) in the search space as the feeds I had […]
Google to IPO
October 24, 2003
From the Financial Times comes the news that Google is considering an IPO that could value the company at anywhere between 15 and 25 billion US dollars. This is an interesting development considering the fact that Sergey Brin has downplayed rumors of such an IPO for months. First inklings of the potential came in August […]
More Webalizer.conf hacking
August 25, 2003
Following up on last week’s entry, I’ve used some of agents I found to refine my search results in webalizer. Based on this, I was able to enhance the search engine results I’m getting. Here are the lines to add to your webalizer.conf file in order for this to work. SearchEngine 348north.com search= SearchEngine abcsearch.com terms= SearchEngine alltheweb.com […]
History repeats itself
February 27, 2003
Back in the early-ish days of the commercial Internet (circa 95), we were talking about the browser wars to describe the fight between then-leader Netscape Navigator and Microsoft’s upstart Internet Explorer. Should we start talking about the search engine wars as Overture and Google are about to go head to head in a new set of […]
Google goes blogging
February 17, 2003
The news that Google is acquiring Pyra Labs has gotten a lot of people wondering about the move. I generally disagree with Anil’s contention that it’s not a great fit. I believe there are many areas in which Google and Pyra are complementary. My personal suspicion is that Google is looking at sites like Daypop, Popdex, and Blogdex and […]
MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?
April 2, 2000
Microsoft and the Department of Justice fail to come to an agreement, insuring that Microsoft will be seen as a monopoly.
AOL’s dark little secret
March 20, 2000
Deep within AOL’s infrastructure sits a new piece of software which could bridge the gap between the internet and the desktop.
