Clint Boulton

Semantic search engine startup Hakia has retooled its Web site, adding tabs for news, images and “credible” site searches as a way to differentiate between its search approach and what it calls the “10 blue links” approach search incumbents Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have used in the first era of search engines.Hakia employs semantic search […]

Sometimes in this business, when you read enough opinions, offhand comments or outright vitriol, you can get caught jumping the gun and drawing ill-conceived, intemperate conclusions just from a headline or two.Take, for example, this headline: “Kohl Weighs in With Justice Department Over Google-Yahoo Agreement,” which tops a letter sent from Herb Kohl, (D-WI) and […]

Google has launched a new home page for Google Blog Search, leveraging some of the content situation tools from Google News.This may or may not be a good thing depending on how you like the aesthetics of Google News. Some think it’s ugly. I’ve gotten comfortable with it.As with Google News, blog categories, such as […]

Googles Green Data Centers By Clint Boulton Googles Green Data Centers – Google Bleeds Green Search giant Google claims that, since its inception a decade ago, it has endeavored to make its computing infrastructure “as sustainable as possible,” while making sure as little energy is wasted as possible. Googles Green Data Centers – Sustainability + […]

Google is very coy about what exactly makes up its infrastructure. For example, ask how many servers the company has or whose gear its running, and you’ll get sly smiles.Google doesn’t want us to know how many commodity servers it has in its dozens of data centers all over the world, but now that green […]

UPDATED: Despite the moves of several Internet companies to be open regarding users’ social data, the social Web is still a competitive landscape.It seems Ringside Networks, the now defunct creator of social software applications that let Web sites operators embed social capabilities within their Web sites, got a taste of that scenario, which led to […]

Security software maker Webroot said hackers are now leveraging Google Trends to lure unsuspecting victims to fake blog Web sites riddled with malware.Launched in May 2006, Google Trends lets searchers enter up to five topics and see how much they’ve been searched on Google, as well as how frequently those topics have appeared in Google […]

Zoho continues to shadow rivals Google and Salesforce.com, Sept. 30 announcing Zoho Marketplace, a place where programmers can buy and sell applications created with Zoho Creator.Users can also post their application requirements in the Zoho Marketplace, letting developers bid to develop that particular application. If a user is partial to an application, he or she […]

Skype 4.0 for Windows Goes Back to Basics Skype 4.0 for Windows Goes Back to Basics – Skype Video Call in Default Mode For users who like the larger video screen, Skype salutes them. Skype 4.0 for Windows Goes Back to Basics – Skype Video Call Compact View Some users were irked by the bigger […]

Last week, T-Mobile unveiled the G1 to a flurry of interest from the public who wanted to see the first smart phone based on Google’s Android mobile operating system.One of the knocks on the G1 is that it won’t support Microsoft Exchange out of the box when it hits retail Oct. 22. Andy Rubin, senior […]

IBM Sept. 30 threw its hat into the iPhone ring with the introduction of iNotes ultralite, a free Web application that lets corporate workers access their Lotus Notes e-mail, calendar and contacts lists through Apple’s Safari browser on Apple’s iPhone.However, to use iNotes ultralite, iPhone users must also be Lotus Notes subscribers. They may access […]

Socialtext today issued the third iteration of its wiki platform for businesses, a release that includes Socialtext People, the company’s “Facebook for the enterprise” application.The company also upgraded its Socialtext Workspace wiki and widget-based Dashboard app, but my interest was particularly piqued when Socialtext founder and chairman Ross Mayfield told me about an upcoming product, […]