Category: 'MSN Search'
MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Posted on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Apparently it’s live. A 3D extension to the map search of live.com which lets you fly through their maps like a bird.
Posted in Development, General, Internet Explorer, MSN Search, News, Search | 3 Comments »
Who’s using the Search Bar anyway?
Posted on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
While browsing to Yahoo! this bar on top struck me. Click to enlarge:
Apparently Yahoo! is promoting the Search Bar, which is standard issue in Firefox. Guess they want us to change the default Google setting.
This in turn made me think of the times I used that Search Bar. Probably once, the first time [...]
Posted in Firefox, General, Google, MSN Search, News, Search, Yahoo | No Comments »
Exploring the earth from your couch, part 2
Posted on Friday, November 18th, 2005
Imagine yourself sitting down on your couch in front of your television, as usual. A drink in one hand, the TV remote in the other. Don’t worry, the chips are within reach. Within the press of a button, or two. You spin up a three dimensional globe and with the directional buttons on your remote [...]
Posted in Apple, Development, General, Google Earth, MSN Search, ThinkLemon, Utilities | 2 Comments »
Let’s make the Google API an open standard.
Posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Here’s a good idea:
An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits.
Posted in Development, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, Search, Utilities, WebDev, Webfeeds, Yahoo | No Comments »
Google Personalised Homepage getting more personal
Posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
What live.com didn’t deliver is what Google is taking a step further already. A Google Personalised Homepage in your native language with ‘local’ information sources.
‘Aboot’ the announcement:
While Seattle’s pretty close, I’d prefer to have the actual weather for Victoria — and have it in Celsius. Now I can, because today we expanded the personalized [...]
Posted in Development, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, News, Search | No Comments »
Windows Live Beta. Don’t bother…
Posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
As the rest of the world is doing right now, I was going to drop my two cents on the new Windows Live Beta. But in this context Beta means Broken. Severely! It doesn’t work in Firefox, but worse, it also borks in IE.
If you ask me, it’s a rush job. Because the hotshots already [...]
Posted in Development, General, Google, Internet, Internet Explorer, MSN Search, News, Search, Yahoo | No Comments »
Google Blogsearch & Webfeeds
Posted on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
At first look there are no orange XML/RSS chicklets in Google Blogsearch. But if you look at the bottom of the page just above the pagination there’s this line where you can subscribe to either an Atom or RSS feed for the search results.
E.g.: “Thinklemon” search results in Atom and “Thinklemon” search results in RSS.
This [...]
Posted in Atom, Browsers, Development, Firefox, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, News, RSS, Search, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev, Webfeeds | No Comments »
Just a thought.
Posted on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
The present: Most people come to you via a search engine (probably through Google, although Yahoo! is on the return). Some people come via Technorati, Bloglines or other RSS feed engine. And some are family, friends, co-workers, affiliates, … the people you meet in real life. All 6 of them.
Given the state of [...]
Posted in Atom, Design, Development, General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, RSS, Search, ThinkLemon, WebDev, Webdesign, Webfeeds, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Talk Digger – Blogpost Metasearch
Posted on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Talk Digger is a (beta) service that let’s you search for your blogposts instantaneously in the likes of Bloglines, Technorati, BlogPulse, PubSub, Icerocket, Feedster, BlogDigger, MSN Search and Google. It returns the number of occurrences with details on click and a trend. You can use a bookmarklet, enter a URL or make a direct link.
Try [...]
Posted in General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, RSS, Search, Utilities, Webfeeds | No Comments »
MSN Virtual Earth Beta
Posted on Monday, July 25th, 2005
MSN could not stay behind longer so they released their own Google Maps called MSN Virtual Earth. Both can display maps and/or satellite imagery. Both offer ‘local search’. Both use somewhat of the same navigation tools. But IMHO it’s not the ‘Google killer’ yet, but see for yourself.
Pizza in Redmond: Virtual Earth vs. Google [...]
Posted in General, Google, Internet, MSN Search, News, Search | 2 Comments »