Visual Search will present you with a grid of images – divided into categories – making it easy to find exactly what you need without having to know its exact name. It works well, or will work well, when, for example, you’re shopping for gadgets or looking for a famous person whose name you just can’t remember.
Visual? Bing. 20/20 Google
The Alpha Wolf(ram)
Wolfram Alpha has been hailed as a “computational knowledge engine” by British founder Stephen Wolfram (possibly a geek himself?), which in normal person speak means it’s an answer-engine that uses an actual “curated knowledge base of data” (okay, that’s kinda nerdy speak but you know what we mean) – more than 10 trillion pieces of data and over 50 000 algorithms – rather than rounding up websites based on keywords, to give you answers.
Jetpack boosts Firefox add-on development
Mozilla has released an experimental program, Jetpack, that allows anyone who can build a web page to build a Firefox add-on. This means that if you only know HTML, you can build simple extensions for the popular browser. Jetpack also supports CSS design and Javascript.
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