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The other day, as I was working on editing the most recent novel I've drafted, I realized there was just something I could not find on Google. I'm a big fan of "getting it right" when it comes to how people interact in a novel, and I needed to understand better how men interact with each other, how they talk
Yahoo today announced the 10th anniversary edition of their Year in Review. The top 10 searched terms are a general barometer of the year, giving insight into the biggest products, news stories, and celebrities. Yahoo boasts about 700 million unique monthly users, so these results do provide a pretty good overview of the hot topics of the year. Yahoo has
The murder trial of Jo Yeates is front page news throughout the UK - a neighbour Vincent Tabak is accused of killing her. At the moment, the prosecution is presenting its case and a couple of interesting things have emerged as evidence. In particular, the prosecution has alleged that the defendant: looked at Wikipedia for the definitions of murder and manslaughter.
It's almost my favorite time of the year, otherwise know as football season. And, today Google revealed that all sorts of football information, both NFL and college, is now available right in Google Search Last week Google began bringing MLB results, but football is America's number one sport, so it's nice to see this partnership with ESPN evolve. The simple
Yahoo announced today that they are enhancing their image search. It has a new tiled interface, a "latest" tab for trending results, a "galleries" tab, and Facebook integration that displays pictures from your friends with your results. The biggest change is, perhaps, the way clicked images are displayed. According to the Yahoo announcement: "By clicking on any image on the
Controversy. The world of news seems to thrive on it, including the world of tech news. Ever wonder what goes on inside a premier tech company like Google? I just finished listening to “In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives” written by Steven Levy and narrated by L.J. Ganser. “In The Plex” is all about Google
While Google+ may have been making most of the headlines, Google also introduced "What Do You Love" at www.wdyl.com. It's a way of searching Google services such as Maps, YouTube, News, Patent Search, Blogger all at once will the results presented together. The user interface is much as you'd expect. The results are displayed on a single page broken up