Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category

In the Vanity Fair article – Is the Google Books Settlement Evil, Jennifer Massoni argues that good or not, the Book Publishing industry is headed towards increasing digitization and it will be hard for any one constituent to halt the momentum.  And boy is she right! Having digitized 10Million (and growing) books since 2004, Google [...]

Historical markers whiz past as we drive — even in our own neighborhood.
IDEA!
A GPS disk for the car! Before becoming rich and famous with this idea, I did an online search to discover what I already knew: every idea is out there many times over.  Our global world is certainly shrinking as all our ideas [...]

Interesting time this past few months as I bring to a close a 2-1/2 year home renovation project, get to know my neighborhood and meet new people, and begin to redefine myself a second time around as I start an Internet radio show on womensradio.com
All these involve using the web for research, to prove a [...]

When shopping online, you often see a place to put a coupon or referral number.  And you probably don’t have one.
Don’t despair. Just do a search for that coupon and you’ll find dozens of web sites where you can get a coupon.  Just this month, I registered for web hosting for only a penny with [...]

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in Search Engine Land. Microsoft finally launched a re-branded Live Search called Bing and geeks everywhere have been consumed with comparisons between Google, Yahoo and Bing ever since. Microsoft held a widely heralded Bingathon or live infomercial on Hulu on June 8…to mixed reviews.  It also spent $80-100 [...]