Post-IPO effect ? The viral marketing approach of that person was genial ! Dommage.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Google Complete ?
A new entry in the Robots.txt of Google is disallowing the Complete directory. At first I was thinking it was there for the Library project, but this is located under the Print subdomain. After I thought is was for Google Suggest (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) but I'm don't think the Suggest function need a directory for that because it is mainly a javascript program on the client side.
Anybody have a idea what the Complete Project stand for ?
Anybody have a idea what the Complete Project stand for ?
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Google Suggest Reversed Engineered
Nice work by Cris Justus to decode the javascript process of Google Suggest !
Yahoo Promote Media RSS with his (new) Yahoo Video Search
Nice thing, but should be embed in file by hardware/software as well, like the meta information embed in jpg with the digital camera. Here are the draft specification. And there is the Yahoo Video Search.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Huge victory for Google on trademark ads
Here is the Reuter short story. This will rise the buying of your own trademark in Google Adwords !
Promise of publication : Yes Sylvain is the number one
Little inside : Yes, my friend Sylvain is still number one on is first name on Google. The proof right here on his Treo 600 :
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
The most important university libraries will be Googlize
Google gonna digitize millions of books available at Stanford, the University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library to make them available in its index.
Friday, December 10, 2004
Google add real-time suggestions to is form
Google suggest is out for english queries :
The number of results is a really smart idea, because if you see huge number, you will refine your search before having results page. à
Update : Also work in french.
The number of results is a really smart idea, because if you see huge number, you will refine your search before having results page. à
Update : Also work in french.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
IBM PC unit going to China
A $1,25 billion deal have been made with Lenovo of China. Big Blue turning red !
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Copernic Desktop Search v 1.2 now fully support Mozilla Firefox
Here is the press release :
December 7, 2004, Boston, MA – Copernic today announced the availability of a new and improved version (1.2) of its award-winning Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) product that fully supports the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. CDS 1.2 also features up to 200 percent faster indexing of PC hard drive content, reduced memory usage, and better compliance with French, German, Spanish and Italian content.
“CDS continues to get rave reviews from press, analysts, consultants, and bloggers, and has won multiple awards, including the CNET Editors' Choice award,” said David M. Burns, CEO of Copernic. “And now CDS is the only production desktop search product with full Mozilla Firefox support.”
CDS 1.2 features lightning-fast indexing of PC hard drive content and improved PC memory usage. The new CDS version also indexes browsing history and bookmarked sites from Mozilla browsers. According to Web analytics company OneStat.com, Web browser products from the Mozilla Foundation continue to gain on Microsoft’s market leading Internet Explorer (IE). Although IE still owns 88.9 percent of the market, Mozilla-based products jumped to 7.4 percent in October. The Mozilla Foundation reports that more than 5.6 million copies of Firefox 1.0 have been downloaded in the two weeks following the product launch.
“We are happy to see that Copernic is providing support for Firefox,” said Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. “We are close to 10 million downloads in almost a month since the release in November, and developers are taking notice.”
“CDS 1.2 is our third significant product update within three months, while competing products are still in the early development stage,” said Eric Bouchard, EVP of Products for Copernic. “CDS is available in five languages and is simply ahead of the pack in every aspect: features, usability, speed, quality, manageability, user privacy, localization, and now full support for Mozilla’s Firefox browser.”
Improvements in CDS 1.2 include:
* Mozilla Firefox history and bookmarks indexing
* Up to 200 % faster indexing of hard drive content
* Support for the latest PDF file format (v1.5)
* Optimized PC memory usage
* Improved handling of French, German, Spanish and Italian content
* Redesigned user interface for Web searching
* Miscellaneous performance and compatibility improvements
About Copernic Desktop Search
CDS brings the power of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. Using a streamlined, intuitive user interface, CDS performs sub-second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDF's, all popular music, picture and video formats, contacts, browser history, and favorites. With seven separate technology patents pending, CDS represents the state of the art in desktop search design.
CDS works with Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP and Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/. More information about what's new in version 1.2 is available on the product Web site.
December 7, 2004, Boston, MA – Copernic today announced the availability of a new and improved version (1.2) of its award-winning Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) product that fully supports the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. CDS 1.2 also features up to 200 percent faster indexing of PC hard drive content, reduced memory usage, and better compliance with French, German, Spanish and Italian content.
“CDS continues to get rave reviews from press, analysts, consultants, and bloggers, and has won multiple awards, including the CNET Editors' Choice award,” said David M. Burns, CEO of Copernic. “And now CDS is the only production desktop search product with full Mozilla Firefox support.”
CDS 1.2 features lightning-fast indexing of PC hard drive content and improved PC memory usage. The new CDS version also indexes browsing history and bookmarked sites from Mozilla browsers. According to Web analytics company OneStat.com, Web browser products from the Mozilla Foundation continue to gain on Microsoft’s market leading Internet Explorer (IE). Although IE still owns 88.9 percent of the market, Mozilla-based products jumped to 7.4 percent in October. The Mozilla Foundation reports that more than 5.6 million copies of Firefox 1.0 have been downloaded in the two weeks following the product launch.
“We are happy to see that Copernic is providing support for Firefox,” said Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. “We are close to 10 million downloads in almost a month since the release in November, and developers are taking notice.”
“CDS 1.2 is our third significant product update within three months, while competing products are still in the early development stage,” said Eric Bouchard, EVP of Products for Copernic. “CDS is available in five languages and is simply ahead of the pack in every aspect: features, usability, speed, quality, manageability, user privacy, localization, and now full support for Mozilla’s Firefox browser.”
Improvements in CDS 1.2 include:
* Mozilla Firefox history and bookmarks indexing
* Up to 200 % faster indexing of hard drive content
* Support for the latest PDF file format (v1.5)
* Optimized PC memory usage
* Improved handling of French, German, Spanish and Italian content
* Redesigned user interface for Web searching
* Miscellaneous performance and compatibility improvements
About Copernic Desktop Search
CDS brings the power of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. Using a streamlined, intuitive user interface, CDS performs sub-second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDF's, all popular music, picture and video formats, contacts, browser history, and favorites. With seven separate technology patents pending, CDS represents the state of the art in desktop search design.
CDS works with Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP and Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/. More information about what's new in version 1.2 is available on the product Web site.
Monday, December 06, 2004
Canadians : Chilly online buyers but broadband lovers
Here is the Emarketer latest study : Canada: The Online Enigma
Friday, December 03, 2004
WebSphere will be more SE friendly
Finally somebody wake up at IBM to improve the resulting URL of Websphere !
Hera a example of the resulting URL of WebSphere fo now:
Incredible no ? They should keep that version for encryption purpose ;-)
Hera a example of the resulting URL of WebSphere fo now:
http://www.entreprises.gouv.qc.ca/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/
7_0_CQ/.cmd/adj/.c/6_1_M1/.ce/7_1_1NG/.p/5_1_130/.d/0/_rp.7_1_1NG/
LnJlcW1ldGgtR0VULnJlcXVybC04OTM4MTM3QTI3MzUwMkU1NTFDMDAwNThBREM5NE
U0NzExOTg0MjI0QTY5RDZGREUzRTVCMDU4MDk3OEM3OEY4MjYxMkJGQTBDM0Y3QjRB
QkYyODUyRTkyNjQwMTJFN0U3NTBCMDBDNzlFODk4MEVDQzlFNTRBRkYzOTEwNzQ0Rk
MwQTNDQkVEQkUwQzRFNDZGQzcxQzA1MUE1Nzk3OUY3MDA2MDYzOUQ3NzI3MTBBODU0
RUMxNDYyQzhFMjRFQzc2RDJBQTFGNzBCMjEzNEQ4MTQ3RUQ0NEI2NTI0MTY5N0VFNj
lENzY1QjMyM0YxRjU5MTE0RkI2MUM5RkQ1QUU3
Incredible no ? They should keep that version for encryption purpose ;-)
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Microsoft launched MSN Spaces Blog service
Here it is with the possibilities of photos, lists, music and categories. But like the lauched of MSN Beta Search few weeks ago, it seem suffer from heavy traffic at the moment and you get a lot of errors like ".NET Passport Unavailable at This Site" ;-).
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Blog is THE word of the year !
A bit late for my point of view but a good news to spread ! Will RSS will be the 2009 word ?
Google handle around 30 petabytes of data
In this interview of Zdnet, Urs Holzle, VP Engineering, give some metrics on Google GFS.
1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
FYI : The Internet Archive Wayback Machine deal with only 1 petabyte!
1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
FYI : The Internet Archive Wayback Machine deal with only 1 petabyte!
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