Sometime ago Psion announced that they own the right to the trademark “netbook” since 1996 and they demanded all manufacturers of the increasingly popular mini-notebooks to stop marketing their mini-notebooks as “netbooks”. The background to all this is that Psion had a product several years ago called Netbook and they …

When Steve Ballmer spoke at CES he mentioned Windows in three types of devices: computers, TV and mobile devices. We’ve seen the first one since the 80’s so that’s no surprise and the other two are just a natural step. We’ve already seen services offering movies on your computer (like …

I’ve just released an update for the WebPage Toolbar where the main new feature is the ability for the users to select default search engine in an options page and also to use local version of Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia. More local versions for other search engines will be added …

Yesterday I wrote about the new search engine Cuil.com and now Yahoo (or at least Yahoo VP of Platforms, Sam Pullara) created a search engine that looks and feels like Cuil. Since Yuil is using the Yahoo API it got much better results then Cuil (and the funny part is …

The search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are indexing more and more pages at AboutUs.org. If you look at the data from Marketleap.com you’ll see that about 14 million pages have been spidered by the three big search engines just on the domain www.aboutus.org. Breakdown per search engine: Yahoo!/ …

I decided to update my list of Pagerank 10 websites I posted earlier since Google is said to have updated their pagerank. So here’s the updated list: validator.w3.org Downgraded to PR9 web.mit.edu www.adobe.com www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/index.html New on the list www.adobe.com/downloads/ New on the list www.adobe.com/products/index.html New on the list www.adobe.com/downloads/ New …

We’ve just started using OpenID on this blog to see how it’s working before we add it to all our blogs. If you haven’t heard about OpenID before it’s a way to login at sites (register) by simply using a URL as ID. That way you don’t have to fill …

While there is much comment and speculation about the proposed $44 billion acquisition of Yahoo! by bitter rival MSN, many are starting to ask whether the merger of these two may open up the door for Wikipedia to slip in “unnoticed” with their new user controlled search engine project. Could …

Yesterday I wrote about Microsofts bid on Yahoo and started thinking about all search engines we’ve seen over the 10-15 years. Do you remember them all? Well, here’s a flashback for you (I know there are many more search engines, but I can’t write about them all 🙂 ). Altavista …