Posts Tagged ‘google’
Is Google making us clever or stupid?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 10, 2009
Last year, a writer at The Atlantic asked Is Google Making Us Stupid? Recently another writer from the same publication wondered if the opposite was true. They might seem to be taking different sides, but they are really providing depth to the same coin.
The first author said:
the Net seems to be doing is chipping [...]
Bing? Bong!
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 1, 2009
Microsoft’s Bing search engine was “released” earlier than expected. Here’s a video preview.
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Did people light up and go “bing!” when they used it? Not many from what I’ve read.
I’ve discovered that you have to key in basic (or dumb) phrases instead of specific ones. If you were shopping for an LCD TV, then something [...]
Use Gmail offline
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 28, 2009
Hot off the Google Enterprise blog: Use Gmail offline using Google Gears.
Picasa for Mac available… finally!
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 6, 2009
Google Picasa, an application for “editing, organizing and sharing photos”, is finally available for the Mac platform.
Wired reports that is has almost all the functionality of the PC version, the exceptions being geotagging and webcam capture. I think that one of the better features is that Picasa for the Mac will allow the user to [...]
Web 2.0 @ Mumbai
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 29, 2008
Web 2.0 was used to good effect during the 2004 tsunami and the 2008 US Presidential election. But I think that its use has stepped up a level with the tragic Mumbai attacks.
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Wired gave an outline of how tweets, blogs, Flickr, Google Maps, and YouTube were harnessed by tech-savvy Indians to let [...]
Who’s number 2?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 18, 2008
Google is the undisputed #1 search engine. Who is #2? According to one report, the #2 search engine is YouTube!
The neutral observer might point out that Google owns YouTube. Statisticians will can move the numbers about as much as they want. But I think there is an underlying phenomenon at work.
If it is true that [...]
A new browser: Google Chrome
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 3, 2008
Google is everywhere nowadays, but the good thing is they provide a lot of good, free stuff (think Search, Gmail, Docs, Maps, etc).
Now they are offering an alternative Web browser, Google Chrome. It is currently only available to PC users. Mac and Linux users have to wait for a while more.
