The Mountain View Chocolate Factory called Google has added to Labs “Social Search”.

Effectively, the search giant has made a way to allow my friends to influence my search results. Blog posts and other related content by my social circle get put into the results, which as an idea isn’t too shabby. Just in case I [...]

I’m sure you’ve seen yesterday’s post about Wolfram Alpha and it’s semi-uselessness compared to the current big dog on campus Google. I did query if I was throwing the wrong data at it. And it turns out to be true.
Searching for “how many roads must a man walk down” actually comes up with a [...]

Over the weekend, Wolfram Alpha was launched. And Google got worried. Let’s see if it needs to be worried with a little test of what they can do, and for no good reason at all, chuck Ask Jeeves into the mix too…
Search Term: Malcolm Owen
WA: Finds both Malcolm and Owen as names, comparing the two [...]