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The death of the search engine

So there I was, looking for bank statements. Inside my head, formulating simple queries that would help me find what I was looking for. And after eventually sorting out my tax, I thought to myself: “In the future, will we actually search for stuff?” On the web, I hasten to add. I ask this simple [...]

Spock gets pinch on finding people

Be you the ardent journalist, the voracious researcher or the sweating voyeur, Spock really does apply some very lateral thinking to a common, logical problem. And the problem? Finding stuff about someone in particular on the ‘Net.
Oh, you can just use Google for crap like that, surely? Well, yes. But if you’ve ever performed a [...]

Google preparing PowerPoint killer?

Right now, Google Docs & Spreadsheets does not, I repeat, does not compete with Microsoft Office.
Nor does the Google Apps suite of applications, which includes the aforementioned Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Simply offering a one-for-one, like-for-like suite of applications doesn’t really add up to something on a par with Microsoft Office, largely because Office is so [...]

Google adverts on mobile phones?

There’s no doubting Google’s ambition to be the top of the advertising heap, but this recent talk of Google advertising ending up on mobile phones leaves me feeling a little cut off.
“In an interview with Reuters, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that cell phone price subsidies should increase in tandem with the amount of advertising [...]