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The death of downtime

by Toby 25. August 2009 16:44
I am now completely incapable of standing still and doing nothing. In the queue for a coffee in the morning I will be checking Tweetie or Facebook on my iPhone. I do this in spite of two realisations I get every time I open these apps – 1) it’s 7am and no one else is online and 2) I checked them when I first woke up at 6am (this makes realisation 1 even more acute).Time in the loo, tim... [More]

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Google vs Microhoo (or is that Yasoft?)

by Ben 17. August 2009 09:43
The pending Microsoft / Yahoo deal is big news for search. It will make Microsoft the 2nd largest company in the world, and a much stronger contender against Google. What’s the deal? In the 10-year deal, Microsoft’s Bing, which was launched just two months ago and is already gaining market share, will power search queries on Yahoo’s sites. Yahoo’s sales force will be resp... [More]

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Google | Online

Google Caffeine unveiled

by Corinne 13. August 2009 11:46
Google have unveiled a test version of their new search engine, nicknamed ‘Caffeine’ by developers due to its improved speed compared to the current Google search engine. The new search engine, intended to replace Google once testing is finished, looks the same, only the algorithms have changed. Effectively, it is Google with a re-write of its indexing system. Google says it is the fi... [More]

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