Comparing Google and Bing search results
Bing, Microsoft’s latest shot across Google’s search supremacy bow, has continued to steadily gain market share since it’s launch in June 2009. Last week Microsoft completed a 10-year deal with Yahoo which would replace Yahoo’s search technology with Bing which promptly gave Bing around 20% of the search traffic. Bing is officially a player in [...]
Using Google Maps to Calculate your Roof’s Solar Potential
Have you ever heard of a Google Maps mashup? A mashup, at least in this context, is a melding of two technologies to form a third technology, usually in a creative manner. A Google Maps mashup, as one would surmise, is constructed by leveraging the massive amounts of data available from the Google Maps project. [...]
Search Across All Craigslist Cities at Once
I’m not a huge user of Craigslist but even I can become annoyed by a silly limitation of the service. The online classified site does not allow one to search across the entire site, instead you are constrained to your local locale. If I was looking for a great job opportunity I would have to [...]
Launch Google Search Results by Keyboard
I’m a keyboarder at heart, those that read the site already know that. For me, it’s just a more efficient manner to interact with the computer. If I’m typing away at something but then have to lift my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, it just breaks the flow. I’ve written in the [...]
Well Goosh Damn, a Google Shell
Goosh is a “Google Shell” for your browser written by Stefan Grothkopp and it happens to be fairly nifty. The shell like interface allows once to search Google and Wikipedia, returning information in a text only form sans ads. Goosh that’s cool!
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