Archive for the ‘search’ Category
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
[digg=http://www.digg.com/software/Digg_For_Your_Desktop]I've previously posted a video of the new search interface I've been experimenting with. In order to get some feedback on how it works I've put together a small application that uses the Digg API to display the popular news stories on your desktop background.
The application will update for the ...
Posted in Digg, search, technology | 1 Comment »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
[digg=http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Why_You_Should_Criticise_The_Tech_You_Love]Ever since I was five years old and we had our first home computer - a BBC - I've been programming.
No one ever taught me how, in those days I would spend hours trying to learn how the processes worked, happy to sit and debug until I understood.
At school I ...
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
[digg=http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Why_Isn_t_Google_A_Fair_Target]I get a lot of comments, trackbacks and email lambasting me for daring to suggest that Google is anything but the best and most ingenious search engine ever made. Someone even said :
'I use Google because it's the best, end of'
Wow, that's telling me a few things. Firstly you think ...
Posted in Google, search, technology | 5 Comments »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/Sorry_Google_It_s_Not_Working_Out]Google I'm sorry, it's not the way it used to be between us anymore. It's not that you haven't cared for me, given me gifts (the digital photo frame broke by the way) and let me watch porn.
But, I expected too much of our relationship I think - which only ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
[digg=http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Google_Copied_My_Ideas]I have been writing search articles since November 2006 and as a search engineer it helps me to construct my thoughts and focus on my work. I was never really under the impression that anybody in industry paid a huge amount of attention to my thinking though - maybe they ...
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