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Google has just unveiled on Wednesday, June 29, 2006, a beta version of its newly developed Personalised Search service. Personalised Search allows the serch engine searched results based on what’s most relevant to the user.
For example, by using Personalised Search to search the word “tackle” might give different results for a footballer and a guy who is looking for ways to tackle a girl. :D The service builds on the Google My Search History feature launched as a beta in April. The service ‘remembers’ past searches, allowing users to quickly retrieve a recently visited page.
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Google Personalized Search
Just blogged about RSS Is Core Technology In Longhorn few hours ago. I found a few photos of the announcement in the Gnomedex conference in Seattle, United State.
RSS Feed Viewing in IE7 :-
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Adding an RSS Feed in IE7 :-
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Some Pics Of RSS In IE7 & Outlook
Since XML is one of the core languages for Microsoft applications, I am not surprise Microsoft announced that Longhorn will incorporate RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as a core technology. This news has been confirmed during the Gnomedex conference in Seattle last Friday, June 24, 2005.
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Gary Schare, director of strategic product management in the Windows division of Microsoft, says that while RSS is a reliable standard for updating information in message form, it currently has no logical way to organize that information in a way that could help subscribers keep track of what is being fed to them.“RSS is good for delivering what’s new, but not so good for things that are getting sorted or reordered,” Schare says.
RSS capability will be built into the OS, for example, you can have one set of newsfeed subscriptions show up in any Longhorn-compatibled newsreader or other application. Microsoft also says that Longhorn’s RSS will make it easier for software developers to incorporate RSS-enabled features into their programs without having to build the functionality from scratch.
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RSS Is Core Technology In Longhorn
Microsoft Inc, revealed last week that they have developed technology to allow its next-generation home-use video game console, Xbox 360, to be connected online with portable game machines of rival firms, such as Sony and Nintendo.
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Users of the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Latest News about Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) and the Nintendo Latest News about Nintendo DS will thus be able to connect their machines with the Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox and play Microsoft’s games over the Internet, Microsoft officials said.
Since I blog about the Google Mobile Search, I might as well talk about Google SMS Service too. :)
Last month, I blogged about Google Into SMS Service, when Google acquired New York based texting (SMS) service provider, Dodgeball. I had a feeling that Google might have some plans to tap into SMS service sooner or later, now as I’ve expected they have Google SMS Service !!
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Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone or device and easily get precise answers to your questions. No links. No web pages.