New Beta Version of The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
There’s an FAQ for the new release on their blog.
[via:Hacker News]
21 January 2011
8 August 2010
10 June 2010
Google has enabled SSL-support for web search. Not a day too soon.
This may cost them some CPU time, but they’ll keep their user data more private. As in, third parties won’t be able to sniff and track Google traffic on their networks if this becomes the default at some point. This is very good for the consumer, but arguably even more interesting for Google, since it makes data mining more difficult for potential competitors.
[via:Ethan Marcotte]
23 March 2010
12 October 2009
18 September 2009
Google Suggest: Disobedient birds and god’s mysterious love
Why not try the other way around? Explore the healing powers of parakeets and ask god if he’s into scat.
Google does return these suggestions at the time of writing. You know, this drains my hope for humanity much like Yahoo Answers and some Michael Jackson fans.
[via:Fuck Yeah 4Chan]
26 August 2009
Porn bookmark collections put people off upgrading to Firefox 3
“In May, [Mozilla made] one last attempt at persuading [Firefox 2 users] to move up to Firefox 3 [...] Those who declined were invited to fill out a questionnaire. [...] The number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people’s bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed.”
[via:Slashdot]
11 August 2009
Google Previews New Search Infrastructure
Slashdot links to more articles discussing the change. The test search page is here.
[via:Slashdot]