Category Archives: computer news

Amazon launches search engine (A9)

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Hmm…Amazon ended beta testing and has officially launched it’s very own search engine called A9.

I just tested a little and it really reminds me of Google especially when I search for my own sites. I guess I should read a little as I’m really interested what type of ranking etc they’re using to optimize their search results, what kind of crawler they’re using etc…

update: now that makes sense, A9 uses the Google search engine along with other helpful resources like IMDb. So I guess the only “true innovation” is their user-specific preferences (cookies need to be enabled). I guess they’re using the history etc for statistics and placement of results (similiar to the “customers who bought x also bought y” on amazon)…

GMail Invites…final post

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So…this is going to be my final post concerning GMail invites…I’m tired of having them on my back, and wandering around I came across Isnoop gmailomatic…you can send your gmail invites to them and they’ll add them to their pool…

If a user wants one he can simply enter his email-address and he will get one from the pool! Cool idea…

/heads over to gmail and sends invites to isnoop…

Firefox 1.0 PR (aka 0.10)

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So…here I am…Firefox 1.0 Preview Release up and running…another smooth transaction from my previous version (0.92). Now I just need to get my hands on a new skin (as Qute 2.1.2 isn’t compatible with 1.0 (yet)) :-)

First thing that catches the eye: popup-blocker-status bar? That strangely reminds me of the one in the SP2 IE…/hits right mouse button -> don’t show… ;-)

Update: Noia 2.0 Lite (2.75) it is for now then…I hope Arvid Axelsson will release the new Qute version for 1.0 PR+ soonish though…

GMail Invite anyone?

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I know I know, enough already some might say, but yes…I’ve got some GMail-Invites left…so if you’re still in need of a GMail account…feel free to drop me an email:

Ingoal [at] gmail.com with subject: ingoal.info – GMail invite and don’t forget your first and last name…First come first serve ;-)

Gmail Filesystem?!

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Are you one of the many beta testers of Google Mail (GMail)? Then you might have thought about what to do with all that GMail space (1GB). Richard Jones thought about it too and came up with the GMail Filesystem (GMail FS). You can read more about it on Richard Jones’ Homepage.

HP to release it’s own iPod (update)

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Hehe…so all the anticipation and then this. HP just added the real, original iPod to it’s products (see HP.com)

Ah well, as I already said in the first post on this topic: the only thing that HP could have done to the iPod would have been ruining the design, so it was a smart move to just take the perfectly designed one and add it to their lineup.

HP to release it’s own iPod

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Reports state that Hewlett Packard is about to release it’s very own version of the iPod (sources say it will be presented today in Miami) . This HP iPod will be manufactured by Apple and it’s suppliers and is part of the “business alliance” between HP and Apple – Hewlett Packard ships it’s PCs with Apple’s iTunes preinstalled…

I’m really curious how this thing will look like as the reports stated it’s based on the iPod technology, but said nothing about the design. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I don’t think they can make it look better than the current iPod (so maybe all they can do is make it look worse, but we’ll see)…