Guns at dawn

another nifty piece of code from the boys and girls at google

Battle of the verbs

Say hello to Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine officially launching to the public this week. A search engine that some people in the know actually think it has what it takes to Bing Google out the park.

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.

“Real-time” Google results

When searching with Google a problem for some is that each results page comes up with something different each time which means you might not find what you’re looking for.

A TinEye for Image Search

TinEye is an amazing new free visual search engine set to transform the way we think of and use online search tools. Traditionally we use search engines by typing in keywords to find related content in the form of pages, images or videos on the internet. TinEye has reversed this process for images, in [...]