Besides not liking Paris H(ilton) and Philip Kindr(ed Dick), here’s some other words Google has blacklisted on instant search. We stopped where Google Instant Search stopped searching but you can fill in the blanks. (More on Techland: Google Announces Instant Search Results Feature)
– one cup two girls (but it will find one cup two …
I never know what’s going on at Google considering how many things the company is involved with. Think about it for a second. There’s a freaking blog for every project and who knows how many of them there are, so Google New is a bit of a godsend. It compiles the latest updates about new products from all the Google blogs in one …
My TIME.com Technologizer column for this week is a look at Microsoft’s new beta of Internet Explorer 9. It’s the best version of IE since 1999 or so, with a nicely streamlined interface, good integration with Windows 7, hardware-accelerated graphics, and a heaping helping of HTML5 support.
When it comes to browsers, I’m …
Remember how awesome you thought it would be to use Google Docs on the iPad only to find out minutes after unboxing that fancy slab of metal and glass that Docs didn’t quite work out the way you thought it would? Yeah…me too. Well, Google has heard our plight and they’ve announced that in the coming weeks, we’ll all be able to …
The Wall Street Journal, which has been doing great work on Internet privacy, has a disturbing piece today on the way online data companies build “profiles” of your intimate life — even if you try to stop them by deleting browser cookies. The disclosures are not entirely new — Wired, for example, has done good reporting on it before — …
By now you’ve heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There’s a good chance you ignore them. Let’s talk about why that is and what you can do about it.
To begin with, it really does matter. Easy to guess passwords (12345, pet’s name, kid’s name, birthdate, etc) really do expose you to snooping and identity …
Apple has denied that Steve Jobs vowed never to return to Japan after he was stopped from bringing ninja stars back to the United States via his private plane. The story goes that Jobs, who was on vacation in Japan, tried to bring the weapons back in his carry-on but was stopped by airport security.
Secret footage from the incident …
Possibly the only thing a college student uses more than their fake ID is social media. Facebook has become a welcome distraction from studying for finals, and tweeting is now the new way to spread gossip on campus.
So when Provist Eric Darr Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania enforced a campus wide ban on …
Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life — online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs. But you pay a …
You’ve probably seen Chris Milk’s web only masterpiece The Wilderness Downtown. The music video took the user back to their childhood on an interactive journey set to the backdrop of We Used to Wait by the Arcade Fire. It also probably prompted most people to make the move to Google Chrome, since the project was made in HTML 5 and works …