Archive for the 'Search Engines' Category

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!: Oh crap.

Microsoft has apparently offered to buy Yahoo! for the paltry sum of $44.6 billion. This bothers me. First of all, Microsoft has had almost a monopoly in the OS market for the last couple of decades, and we all know how they handled that. If they get a majority share of the […]

Quick and Dirty: Yahoo! Mash Review

Yahoo, in an effort to capture market share in the Web 2.0 social networking market, has just released their new social network, named Mash. They seem to have taken special care to make it something that could be used as a verb, as all over your profile (and others’ profiles, as well), you are […]

Ask.com: The algorithm that brings porn faster

Ask.com, looking to promote its complete revamp, has released a new television advertisement into the wild with a man singing, “I got what I’m looking for!” In the background, the search bar clearly shows searches for “babes with swords,” and other things along those lines, with pictures, videos, and badly-made websites. It’s absolutely […]