Search / web app giant Google announced yesterday on the Google Blog that they have just acquired human-verification system reCAPTCHA, which aside from preventing bots from registering for web sites, also helps digitize books by confirming words that a computerized optical character recognition (OCR) system was not able to recognize. This is being used to … Read more
In an announcement that made a loud “bing!” to the internet search world yesterday, giants Microsoft and Yahoo! have decided to play nice together with combining their search technologies. It’s not surprising, as Microsoft courted Yahoo! last year for a while only to be snubbed in a final purchasing attempt. What can best be called … Read more
Google announced today that Google Apps is finally out of beta. “Yes, really.” “Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta. ‘Beta’ will be removed from the product logos today, but we’ll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not … Read more
I’ve heard from several of my fellow bloggers that there’s been a recent PR update again, as they tend to do every few months or so. I know I had an application in to get my PR reinstated, or to at least have a fair shot at re-earning it. My blog is all no-follow, I … Read more
Tonight as I sit at my computer and sip this glass of (previously cork-tainted, but now recovered) Biltmore Estates Pinot Noir, I was thinking about the long, rocky relationship I’ve had with Google as a blogger. I won’t get into the whole “no-follow is stupid” debate here (even if it is), but over the years … Read more
In the European Union, Opera is in the process of bringing a suit against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with its operating system. Microsoft is slated to include Internet Explorer 8 in its latest operating system, Windows 7. Recently, Mozilla foundation threw its hat in the ring with Opera to go up against Microsoft, and … Read more
It’s no big surprise that Google makes a superior web product for a lot of our day-to-day needs. Recently, Google announced their new web browser called Google Chrome. It’s code is based on Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Web Kit used in Safari (on Mac, PC, and iPhone). There are several suspicious lines in the code, … Read more