July 7th, 2008
More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger.
Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling of […]
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June 21st, 2008
The question today is whether or not there is an easy, efficient and effective way to “tag” files. My brother presented the question to me initially and I began searching. The goal is to be able to tag any file whatsoever and then be able to search for one of those keywords and see […]
By Jason Bean -- 1 comment
May 21st, 2008
I’ve been watching the news around the webs about the latest developments the Microsoft and Yahoo! relationship.
First of course was the all out attempt to come in, guns a-blazing and take over the floundering company and take advantage of some serious name and brand exposures.
That didn’t work out so well as Yahoo! CEO, Jerry […]
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April 16th, 2007
Did you know that Google has a specific search function that only searches Microsoft related websites for the information?
I’m guessing the functionality works similar to Rollyo, in that they’ve picked a group of sites that focus on Microsoft information and search for your request among this specific group.
What I’m not able to figure out is […]
By Jason Bean -- 2 comments
October 25th, 2006
b5media just announced they’ve incorporated Google’s Custom Search into their main page. This allows visitors to search across all of b5media’s blogs for information they need.
IE7 makes it super easy to incorporate your Google Custom Searches into your IE7 and search your favorite sites from anywhere, which I talked about on Emerging Earth. What’s even […]
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June 7th, 2006
Jason at 37 Signals has a really interesting thought. Maybe all these little releases from Google that aren’t really anything earth-shattering are the equivalent of a chatter in the network:
What if Google was so brilliantly twisted that they’re using Writely and Spreadsheet and Calendar and massive numbers of new hires as flares to distract Microsoft […]
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