Student of Life
On December 2, 2009 you may have noticed that Google introduced a new twist to their classic search page. This twist is what’s called a fade-in effect. Google understands that people come to their site to perform a search. As such, they are eliminating as many distractions as possible. The new design reflects that by [...]
May 13, 2009 – You only have 8 days left to enter the second annual “Doodle for Google” contest. This years theme is “What I wish for the World” and is open to K-12 students. This year home schooled children are allowed. Go vote now!
The winner will receive a $15,000 college scholarship. The school [...]
Who won the Kentucky Derby?
After the huge upset at yesterday’s Kentucky Derby I decided to check in on the major search engines to see how well each one handles the question “who won the Kentucky derby.” My list of search engines included Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live, and Ask.com. All of these searches were performed the [...]
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza among pigs. Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of swine flu viruses has been documented.
From December 2005 through February [...]
Finding that perfect image just got a whole lot easier.
From Google Labs comes Google Similar Images. This new project is pretty self-explanatory; when you search for an image and find one close to what you’re looking for, Google can now find ones that it believes to be the same, or similar.
It’s interesting to note that [...]