Google Calendar Tips Douglas Bowman, who helped design Google Calendar, has some great tips for getting the most out of Google Calendar. Since I’ve been an early user of Google Calendar for a few months now, thought I’d share a few tips that may make the jump a little smoother for others. Some tips may seem obvious, other tips may be completely new to you. Specifically, I’ve noticed hesitation by Mac users in trying Google...
PaperRank Implemented on Google Scholar Today Google launched a new feature over at Google Scholar - a system that ranks scholarly papers and information based upon criteria Google believes researchers value. Today we're launching a feature of Google Scholar which will make it easier for researchers to keep up with recent research. From quantum computing to copper binding in prion protein. It's not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent...
Google Voice Recognition Search Patent From ArsTechnica: Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a “Voice interface for a search engine,”…Translation: the system listens to your spoken query, does its magic, and returns the results. Google has not publicly commented on this voice search effort, although the company’s Alexander Franz did co-author a an article on the topic back in 2002 (PDF). Nevertheless, it is clear that this service would be...
Yahoo Travel, FareChase, and APIs Yahoo just announced the general availability of FareChase: Yahoo! FareChase (which is now in general availability) is a travel search engine that searches across many airline sites like AA.com, hotel sites like Sheraton.com, and on-line travel agency websites such as Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com, to give searchers a comprehensive set of prices and availability for flights and hotel rooms that is available on the web. In addition to FareChase, Yahoo also released a...
Standford Daily Pulls Doorway Page Yesterday, news spread of the Stanford Daily's repeated decision to host doorway pages. But if you check the doorway pages today, you'll notice they are no longer live. (The pages are still viewable in Google's cache) Back in May of 2005, the Stanford Daily stopped hosting doorway pages, but obviously for one reason or another the paper decided to return to their old practice. AussieWebmaster discovered that the...
New Google AdSense Layout and Features From the AdSense blog: You can now access all AdSense products from the AdSense Setup tab within your account — edit your color palettes, get code snippets, access your channels, and more. As we add even more products and features, they’ll all share a consistent style to keep AdSense easy to use. For example, try out the new AdSense for content color picker for choosing and customizing new...
Yahoo Adds Wikipedia Links Yahoo recently announced that Yahoo Search will be including additional links for each Wikipedia entry. Now when a search comes back with a Wikipedia entry, you'll see links to to the main sections of the Wikipedia entry also. As you can see, the Wikipedia result now has a link to Coffee bean types which tells me that robusta coffee has more caffeine that Arabica. Speaking of caffeine, the link to the Wikipedia...
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