iPhone 3G S
Yesterday the new iPhone 3G S was presented by Apple. Neither Telenor nor NetCom reveals on their home pages when it will be available in Norway, but Apple’s pages say it is already available.
Bing – first thoughts
Microsoft’s new search engine “Bing” which replaces Live Search, promises to be a decision engine rather than a search engine. Cominvent has tried it.
The front page of “Bing” is nice looking. I’m in Alexandria, and want to decide how to get from Alexandria to Hurghada, so I type “how to get from alexandria to hurghada”. The result set is a non-impressive boring listing of results, with exactly the same look & feel as Google results, not very innovative.
Let’s compare:
Kvasir innfører «søk 3.0»
Kvasir (www.kvasir.no) just released a new version of their search, which they have chosen to call “search 3.0”. This rises expectations high, so let’s investigate how they do…
The old kvasir was one of the most used web searches in Norway, but they never really managed to beat Google in popularity, so far. So what’s new in the new version of their search, and has this anything to do with “search 3.0”?Kvasir (www.kvasir.no) lanserte for noen uker siden en ny versjon av søket sitt, som de har valgt å markedsføre som “søk 3.0”. Dette setter forventninger høyt, så la oss se hva de har å by på…
Gamle Kvasir var en av norges mest brukte søk, men klarte vel aldri helt å konkurrere med Google, annet enn for gamle trofaste brukere. Så hva er nytt i den nye versjonen, og kan det virkelig kalles “søk 3.0”?
Proper search for the iPhone
As a search specialist I appreciate proper search features, also on the smartphone. For those of us remembering the PalmPilot back in 2000, it had a wonderful global search option, bringing up results from all applications in one screen. Perfect! And now we get this on the iPhone. In iPhone OS 3.0 coming this summer,
Microsoft reveals FAST Search roadmap
Yesterday, Microsoft/FAST announced at the FAST Forward conference in Las Vegas the immediate roadmap of the FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform) product line. Also see what CMS Watch writes about the topic. Office 14 The main news is that ESP will be included in Office 14, to serve as the advanced/extended search server of Sharepoint.