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Google Health Launches

May 21st, 2008 |

Google Heath offers to help diagnose, look for drug interactions and store your consolidated health records. Does anyone else think this is a bad idea? Why should Google be able to amass all this data and sell the “non-confidential” statistics it gathers? And why would I trust my medical records to a beta software program I have little control over? Heck, just sign me up for global health care or better yet, Google Care. Humans can’t even get my medical information straight and I’m suppose to trust a machine? Alas….still interesting to see where this all goes.

Google Health

Posted in Google, News |

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Cash For Search? Only From Microsoft

May 21st, 2008 |

Author: Picturesque

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Microsoft will give you cash back for searching your next purchase on their Live Search! product search. Not that they need to as it’s already better than Google’s product search. It includes shipping costs making the results more reliable when searching for the least expensive purchase of useless cat toys. Add to that the 2-5% discount for using their service and I think we’ve got us a winner.

Live Search cashback – Live Search

Posted in MSN |

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Microsoft To Take Over Yahoo!? (Yawn)

May 19th, 2008 |

Author: Picturesque

If the news lately sounds all the same (Britney Spears in court, sunny in Hawaii today, etc.), well, it’s because it is. Yup, Microsoft is again trying to buy Yahoo!. Not totally unexpected as Yahoo! has been getting cozy with Google. Yawn. Just taking a wait and see attitude here. It will be a long time before this is ironed out.

Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo!: Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business.

Posted in MSN, Yahoo! |

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Make Any Site Social

May 13th, 2008 |

Author: Picturesque

The Internet is buzzing about Google’s new site social endeavor called Friend Connect. Check out more on their blog…..

Google Press Center: News Announcement

Posted in Google, News |

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Need Help Blogging? Live Writer to the Rescue

May 9th, 2008 |

Author: Picturesque

Microsoft can occasionally do things correctly including help you blog better. The Windows Live Writer is an excellent tool for adding entries to your blog (or blogs) that many are raving about. It allows creation of blog entries even while you are offline and makes integrating photos easier than most built in blog editors. It’s also free for the time being…..

Windows Live Writer – Overview

Posted in Tips |

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Is Google Synonymous With Smart Search?

May 5th, 2008 |

Author: Picturesque

There’s a great discussion about Google’s seeming ability to provide results that include synonyms. This confirms some of my findings. Google seems to be giving more relevance to user provided data than linking in certain cases. No surprise here but good to have evidence. Read more about it here….

Stemming of complex plurals – Crawling, indexing, and ranking | Google Groups

Posted in News |

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