Tag Archives: interesting internet

Bing Finally Lets You Search For Animated Gifs

In an update over the weekend Microsoft has given Bing the ability to filter search results specifically for animated gifs. Now when you do an image search you can click on the Type filter below the search box and select Animated GIF. The page will refresh to show just animated GIFs. Hovering on any of the […]

Lysol Buys The Top Ad Spot For Ebola Searches

As spotted on Tuesday, October 28th, Lysol seems to have spent some serious cash and bought themselves the top ad spot on Google for ebola searches. I’m not seeing the ad appear much as of today already (October 30th) – however this was interesting while it lasted. Google searches for ebola have sky rocketed, understandably – and […]

W3C Brings HTML5 to Recommendation Status

HTML5 has been around for a couple of years now – slowly growing as more and more websites transition from HTML4; and more and more browsers start to fully support all of HTML5’s features. As of right now almost all devices out there fully support HTML5. Computer browsers such as Chrome, Opera and Firefox support […]

Google Announces Partnership with PwC

Google has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers in an effort to “bring new and innovative services to companies around the world.” “For our clients, acquiring the knowledge most important to their operations, securing that information and using it optimally are critical-now more than ever before,” stated PwC Vice Chairman Mike Burwell. “PwC is teaming with Google to offer […]

Bing Now Understands Emoticons

Most of us use emoticons to some extent in our daily communication. Whether it be in our text messages, or in our emails – they’ve become a pretty crucial part to setting a tone in a text based communication. Well Bing now fully supports emoticons in all English markets – and from the playing around […]

More Free Google Domains Invites!

Google was nice enough to hook me up with a handful more invite codes for their Google Domains beta – and as usual I’m giving them out for free here! If you want to see some screenshots about the clean awesome UI within Google Domains check out my review here. Otherwise ask for a free […]

TwitPic Gets Snatched Up By Twitter

Veteran TwitPic users have been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride as TwitPic was shutting down, wasn’t, was again – and then it finally seemed to have shut down as it reached it’s last remaining day – and Twitter snatched it up. So this means that unfortunately Twitpic will no longer be taking on […]

Google Updating Their DMCA Algorithm

Back in August of 2012 Google introduced the original DMCA algorithm – a policy designed to demote sites which have an unusually high number of DMCA takedown requests. On Friday of last week Google announced that they will be updating the DMCA algorithm as a global roll-out. An improved DMCA demotion signal in Search. In August […]

Twitter Introduces Audio Cards To The Twitter Stream

Late last night Twitter announced Audio Cards – a new addition to your Twitter stream which allows you to listen to music and podcasts directly from your stream on iOS and Android devices. Furthermore when you so happen to find something that you like you can dock it and continue browsing Twitter while it plays […]

Alas Twitpic Is Shutting Down; Go Download Your Data!

It’s been a rather confusing time for those of you following the Twitpic heartline awaiting news of its new acquisition or closure. Unfortunately it turn out the acquisition didn’t happen – and as such Twitpic is in-fact closing. And it’s closing fast. In-fact the final day for Twitpic is October 25th, 2014 – 9 days […]

South Korea: I’m Jealous Of Your Internet Speeds

According to Akamai’s most recent State of the Internet Report, South Korea has the fastest average internet connection speed in the world. South Korea’s internet users reached average download speeds of 24.6 Mbps in the second quarter of 2014 according to Akamai’s measurements. The United States ranked 14th on the list with an average connection speed of only 11.4 […]

Google Looking To Connect Doctors to Patients Via Helpouts?

An interesting thread popped up on reddit a few days ago where a user ran a search for knee pain on Google via his mobile phone and was prompted with the option to consult with a doctor, live, and for free. So off I went and tried the same search on my laptop: Similar text […]

Yelp & TripAdvisor Attempts to Rework Google Local Search Results

There’s always been a lot of people arguing against the Google algorithm – however for the first time a group of them got together and created a brand new Google Chrome app called “Focus on the User” …

New York City, London Kicked Our Arse

I had mentioned the new .NYC gTLD on here before; and apart from that I have read articles in numerous newspapers and plenty of online sources advertising the new domain name extension for New York City. That being said I am pretty upset that during the landrush period for the .nyc domain which lasted an […]