Bing – Google Mashups in Abundance
Congratulations to the WSJ for discovering Bingle, a mashup of Bingle and Google that displays search results side-by-side. It’s really handy, but nothing new and nothing out of ordinary. There’s also Bing & Google, Bing vs. Google – all three have been available for months, and there are probably a lot more. It takes close [...]
Bing Visual Search: Just A Novelty?
Microsoft today announced Bing Visual Search, a visual way of searching the web. Being completely satisfied with what I am getting with Google, this is just bells and whistles for me. With Visual Search, users will be able to search by the click of mouse. For example, if the users want to find the line [...]
Has Twitter Finally Killed Summize?
Since today appears to be Twitter-day (which day isn’t?), I’m adding my 2 cents. Summize has always been fast and reliable. In fact in the days of the worst Twitter outage, with Reply and other functions disabled, Summize was the savior of the Twitterverse. But now that Twitter acquired Summize, I’m seeing it dead quire [...]
Why Bing is Gaining on Google
OK, I admit, today is humor day. I got special permission from Ben to do one more, then we’re back to regular programming. Bing is gaining on Google. Do you know why? Check these Google image search results for the keyword Bing. My friend and CloudAve guest blogger Chris Yeh could come up with all [...]
Is Google Being Evil? Ajax Search
It seems Google is testing a new AJAX powered search on US Google searches. So what? Well it seems a standard Google search returns the url http://www.google.com/search?q=cloudave when searching for CloudAve. The new search returns http://www.google.com/#q=cloudave. The difference being that standard referral tracking and analytics services don’t see anything after the “#”. The search community [...]
Yotify Can’t Really Notify – Yet
I am an avid Google Alerts user, who is greatly underwhelmed but the lack of setup choices, the inflexibility of delivery options, search combinations, and mostly the erratic (occasional?) delivery. So when TechCrunch calls a new service “Google Alerts on Steroids”, I do pay attention, and check it out (I guess that makes me part [...]
