Thanks to a legal agreement between Microsoft and the European Union’s Competition Commission late last year, millions of European Internet Explorer users will be given the option to choose an alternative browser from 1 March, 2010. Microsoft Internet Explorer was previously always the default browser for computers kitted up with the Windows operating system. However, next [...]
The Magic of the Internet is that there is no such thing as “the last page”, there is no such thing as The End, nor is there a “wait till tomorrow’s edition” to read the rest of the story. The surfer sets her or his own limits – she or he decides when to end [...]
Hi all, a long time ago (in Internet time) I remember that I got my first Internet access connection. It was the year 1997 and the serviceman installed on my PC a browser called Netscape Navigator. I was delighted and I said to myself: WOW, now I can surf the web like the pros! Not [...]
This new Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time. Google Internet Stats collects, agregates and displays statistical data provided mainly [...]
The following report from Hitwise shows top search engines, ranked by Volume of Searches for the 4 weeks ending 06/27/2009. The following report, also from Hitwise, shows websites for the industry ‘Computers and Internet – Search Engines‘, ranked by Visits for the week ending 06/27/2009. Results speak for themself, there is no doubt that Google [...]
Hey there, world cyber-globe-trotters – I just discovered that BING (the new search engine from Microsoft) has a free translator – no need to get upset when you run into strange languages while surfing. Try this useful tool, called the Microsoft Translator But of course there are a lot more of online free translation tools. [...]
Docstoc is an online document exchange database and social networking site that freely allows users to store, search, and share virtually any type of document. Similar in concept to what Flickr.com does for photos and YouTube.com does for videos, Docstoc is the online community for sharing all types of documents ( word, excel, power point, [...]
Microsoft has finally got it right, congratulations to Steve. Their new Bing search engine is nice, and it works fine. So far, so good. Give Bing a try. Due to my research work, I use all the top search engines. I cannot rely on just one source of information retrieval. I suggest that you do [...]
In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S.A. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise. This means that Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and [...]