Tag Archives: Google

Google pop at IE

By Dhiren | Published: August 4, 2010

Just catching up on the Google IO conferences and this pop at Internet Explorer made smile. It shows how the new versions of Open Source browsers will utilise HTML 5 to support desktop APIs. The support of desktop APIs will make web applications more like the desktop applications that we’re used to. By the end [...]

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Google incorporates collaborative filtering-ish features into search options

By Dhiren | Published: May 15, 2009

I’m a big fan of collaborative filtering. Society increasingly seems to have a growing obsession with associative information and the ability to easily access and utilise trends. I’ve written about collaborative filtering before, and over the last year I have been watching how Google have been slowly incorporating it into their insights for search tools. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Collaborative filtering, Digital Planning, natural search, search planning, search trends, searchology | Leave a comment

Some music trends

By Dhiren | Published: May 3, 2009

I was interested to see which music website or web application was the most popular out of all my current favourites: Is blip.fm slowly losing the battle? I also started researching DJ Shadow, apparently he’s quite big in Poland — I had no idea! Poszanowanie!

Posted in Digital Music, Digital Planning, Measurement | Also tagged Digital Planning, google labs, market research, search insights, trends, web application; | Leave a comment

People powered search vs. Algorithm powered search

By Dhiren | Published: February 22, 2009

For quite some time I have been sanity checking some of my searches in delicious. Basically everytime I do a search in Google, I replicate it in Delicious. I’ve been trying to see which of the two provide me with the most accurate search results, across a variety of search terms. Google launching Search Wiki [...]

Posted in Natural Search Optimisation (NSO), Social Media | Also tagged human powered search, search alogorithm, search wiki, self organisation, tagging | 1 Comment

Onebox – many results

By Dhiren | Published: January 26, 2009

Google’s Onebox search results get more intelligent and now keeps you up to date with the scores. It doesn’t stop at tennis though…

Posted in Technology | Also tagged onebox, search results, universal search | Leave a comment

NRU

By Dhiren | Published: January 21, 2009

This is one of first the first branded apps I have seen for the G1. First glimpses of StreetView on Android were pretty amazing, and now NRU by Lastminute.Com Labs makes me worried. Why? Because I’m a loyal iPhone user who, might just cave when the G2 makes it to our shores next year. It [...]

Posted in Mobile, Technology | Also tagged andriod, GPS, Mobile, mobile applications, ui design | Leave a comment

Google going Social

By Dhiren | Published: December 31, 2008

I suppose none of us have been oblivious to the birth of Google Search Wiki in recent weeks, I’ve already heard lot’s of people say “hang on a sec, it’s not really a wiki”. Search Wiki at the moment serves a purpose for Google account holders, who want to annotate, customize and improve the quality [...]

Posted in Natural Search Optimisation (NSO), Social Media | Also tagged friend connect, improving search, search wiki, social media, social search | Leave a comment

Morality

By Dhiren | Published: November 2, 2008

I love reading Wired, every month the magazine is a good mix of technology, politics, science and other things from the town of Geeksville. I never really log-on to their website purely because I read so many blogs and tech websites, picking up an actual paper pub and flicking through it over a coffee [...]

Posted in Paid Search (SEM), Politics & Society | Also tagged gambling policy, morality, wired | 1 Comment

Chrome Androids

By Dhiren | Published: September 3, 2008

Well I guess there’s been a lot of talk about Chrome over the last couple of days and using it today I have to say I’m mighty impressed with load speeds, fast as promised! What I’ve been even more impressed with recently is Google Android, the new Google OS for mobile phones. I believe it [...]

Posted in Mobile, Technology | Also tagged android, Apple, chrome, mobile OS, operating systems, osx, osx 10 | 1 Comment

The Google Social Graph and beyond

By Dhiren | Published: August 31, 2008

Referring back to my earlier post about The Semantic Web, I mentioned that new build projects should utilise things such as Microformats and RDF. One of the main reasons for this was to provide people with better usability of social networks, enabling them to find existing friends easily on new social platforms and facilitate portable, [...]