Google CEO Eric Schmidt turned down a position in Obama’s organization last year, but the search engine guru seems to be stepping up to the plate now. Scmidt and Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie have been included in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). This council is made [...]
Google’s Social Gadget Rocks
April 27th, 2009I love Google’s new toy. The new iGoogle gadget called “What’s Popular” is a social news pagesimilar to Digg or Reddit, with up and down vote arrows. The types are split up into stories, videos and images, and you can expand and personalize it just like a Google Homepage. Google says that this gadget [...]
LiveSearch Cashback Program Takes Off
April 26th, 2009A Tweet popped up yesterday that was a bit of a shocker. Live Search cashback hasn’t been publicly sharing that many numbers lately, so the report was pretty visible. A Microsoft Careers post, advertising for an SDET in “Subscription and Commerce” spilled the beans about the rapidly increasing numbers: Cashback is changing the way online [...]
New Cloud Computing Service Offered By IBM
April 24th, 2009IBM is planning to launch new cloud computing services before the end of this year. Resources say the service offered would allow developers to write web-based applications without any difficulty. Another service of this type that would be offered would be to help company owners to run the developed applications over the web with ease. [...]
Google Grows, Search Evolves, Optimization Adapts
April 24th, 2009Recent changes to the way Google does things can be a hindrance or a help, depending on your willingness to take advantage of these changes! Google has increased the snippet length for queries that contain three or more keywords, as multi-word queries are more targeted and complex. If you are in control of your [...]
