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Bing not so nice

Bing.com is, as you will know unless you have been completed cut off from this world for a long time, Microsoft’s latest attempt at wooing internet search users.
Bing has just started to become publicly available. And its first impressions are, well, not so good.
To begin with, the homepage doesn’t display properly on my browser. No, [...]

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gOS 3.0 Review - Promising Distro Breaks a Few Promises

Introduction
gOS is one of the lesser known / used Linux distros: I had promised myself that I would keep an open mind while taking it out for a spin.
The latest released version is 3.0, named Gadgets. The name suits it well: it is exactly that. A large collection of Google Gadgets put onto a remade [...]

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The Next Step for Google

Google is already making what can best be called a dinlinearization of services - offering them in ‘cloud’ format (you access them over the internet). Google Docs, Reader, Desktop Search with Gadgets and most recently, Chrome (meant to utilize a larger slice of the internet audience).
What I wonder is this: what is Google next big [...]

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Google’s SearchWiki - it’s not all that bad

Ever since the introduction of Google’s SearchWiki for iGoogle users, there has been a lot of hue and cry about cluttering, spamming and what not.
What is worse is that many people have been griping about the non-availability of an opt-out option.
The truth is that SearchWiki isn’t all that bad. You can simply turn off the [...]

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Google’s spread into competitors’ domain

It seems just like everyday that Google is bringing up new products and ideas. And more often than not, we hear that it has to do with something that the other Tech Giants of the world are already kings in. That means Microsoft, Apple, Intel, etc.
Google is spreading beyond search, that is obvious. The question [...]

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