Google Tweaks Algo To Favor Wikipedia

When searching for broad terms such as “pizza” or “karate” one of the top 10 entries will usually be from Wikipedia. However, it appears that Google has tweaked their algorithm so that whenever a user appends the word “information” or “info” (no quotes) to a search, the first result is almost always a [...]

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Posted on Apr 29th, 2007

AOL Blatantly Copies Yahoo’s Portal

AOL has done some pretty low things in their miserable existence, but this has got to be the worst. In what seems like a pathetic attempt at a web portal, they totally copied Yahoo.com’s design. It’s so blatant, it seems as if it were done to get attention to themselves. Almost [...]

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Posted on Apr 27th, 2007

Firefox Extension: Compress Your Toolbars

Since web browsers are a daily part of our life, getting the most out of them is very important. The more tool bars you own, the less of a website’s content you actually see. That’s where Tiny Menu comes in. It allows you to compress the bar that contains File, Edit, [...]

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Posted on Apr 26th, 2007

How To Use RSS: The Simple Way

To tech savvy computer users experimenting with new things isn’t a big deal. You read on the subject, ask people, or post on a forum. However, a lot of users are afraid to try new things. One of the most useful things for news junkies is RSS. RSS is such [...]

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Posted on Apr 24th, 2007

TurboTax Refunding Customers That Filed Late

In a press release, Intuit says it will be refunding customers that paid Turbo tax to file their taxes online from April 17 and 18. Apparently during peak hours, which is around a day before they’re due, their servers experienced a critical database failure. Oops. They’re offering to pay for any [...]

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Posted on Apr 21st, 2007

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