A Closer Look at Google OneBox Results
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A Q & A with Google Product Marketing Director Debbie Jaffe wraps up our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results.
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Will the increased relevance from Google's new universal search process leave other search engines in the dust?
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Google Inc. is seeking user feedback as it experiments with new views of its search results.
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Revamped search engine allows users to store and share results.
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Sebastian Bergmann has posted the results of some benchmarking on the compilation he's done on the branches of PHP from version 3.0 all the way up to 5.3-CVS.   As people keep asking me for an update to my previous benchmarks (PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmark, PHP 5.1 / GCC Benchmark (Update), and PHP 5.1 Performance, I quickly ran a new benchmark today.   He rendered the results out into a series of charts defining the number of total seconds taken for the compile and how long each of the components took. It's impressive to see how much of a jump there was between the 3.0 series and 4.3.   He also includes his compile settings (and machine information) as well as the numbers for the results if you'd like to graph them out yourself.
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ has improved the security and search features of its Mini search device, a hardware box with Google software aimed at small and medium-size companies and at departments within large organizations. In its 2.2 version, slated for release on Tuesday, the Mini will gain some features already present in the company's Search Appliance, a similar product that is more sophisticated and powerful and designed for large organizations, said Kevin Gough, a Google enterprise product manager. Industry observers have been waiting for Google to give the Mini a boost, as a reaction to a serious challenger the product got in December whenÂ IBM and Yahoo launchedÂ a free, entry-level, enterprise search application. That competing product, called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, can index up to 500,000 documents. The Mini starts at $1,995 for 50,000 documents and tops out at 300,000 documents in its $8,995 edition. In terms of security, the Mini will for the first time recognize access settings for users and documents that an administrator has pre-established in Windows' NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication protocol and Active Directory. The Mini has also gained the ability to apply access settings and authentication requirements defined by administrators in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directories and in HTTP Basic schemes for online transactions. Meanwhile, a major search improvement is the OneBox feature, which lets the engine identify the intent of certain queries and compile and present a digest of data at the top of the search results list that may answer the user's questions, saving them from having to click on search results. OneBox can be configured to compile human resources data, sales transaction details and employee contact and calendar information, for example. The upgraded Mini now integrates with Google's hosted Analytics service that tracks and logs Web site usage. In particular, the Mini integration will enhance and enrich the data Analytics gathers related to users' search activities. In a similar fashion, the Mini has been linked with Google's Sitemaps service, which lets webmasters put a file on their sites that tells Google's automated Web crawler the proper way to index their sites' Web pages. The Mini 2.2 gives administrators the option of creating or improving their Web sites' site maps. Finally, the Mini has gained the ability to limit search queries based on ranges of numbers, such as dates or prices. While the security features are a must-have in corporate search tools, and thus a catch-up move for the Mini, the integration with Google Analytics gives it an edge over competing products, said Guy Creese, an analyst with Burton Group. Companies of all sizes are eager to improve their understanding of what their clients do on their Web sites, and gaining a better insight into clients' search activities is extremely valuable, he said. The language in search queries provides more concrete clues about a client's intentions and desires than the recording of the client's mouse clicks on the site, Creese said.
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Russ asks: Where's the OpenSocial container API? I love Russ because he cuts through all the BS and gets right to the core, most basic question, and he doesn't care who he pisses off. That's my kind of developer. You can't lie to the compiler, when the bits hit the road, you gotta know what garbage goes in and what garbage comes out.  (Ahh programmer's humor!) In other words, suppose I wanted to compete with Google, MySpace, Plaxo and LinkedIn, well, where's the spec that shows me how to do that? Well, of course I don't know, they aren't communicating with riffraff like me, but I have some experience with this kind of stuff, so I can hazard a guess. If they publish a spec,all kinds of projects will likely get started to enable the API in (just for the sake of argument): Drupal, WordPress, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Scripting News (why not add widgets to a random blog), CNN, The New York Times, well you get the idea. There might be lots of implementations very quickly. And that would be it for changes. It would be frozen de facto, they'd have to live with what they have, which given how quickly it was thrown together, probably isn't very good. Not the kind of stuff you'd like to support for the next decade or two. Or maybe they would break everyone, something guaranteed to make them a lot of enemies, much the way Microsoft did, and they were good at migration of APIs.  Google is good at doing AJAXy web UIs, they make users happy, but they're not very good at APIs. This one is a loser, for sure. That's the answer to Russ's question. It's probably not malice that keeps them from releasing details to everyone outside their club, it's pragmatism. They have to try to hold on to it to keep it from becoming even more of a mess than it already is. Just my opinion, for what it's worth. I've been wrong many times before.
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Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited. In Monkey Bites.
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Everyone in the PHP community (as is probably true all around the web) is buzzing about the new offering from Google - the Google Code Search. In the PHP community, the ones talking about it so far include:  Chris Shiflett's look at the security aspect of the search Ilia Alshanetsky's take on the search as it possibly being a hacker's good friend Pierre-Alain Joye's searches for macros and the term "virtual_file_ex" Harry Fuecks' own search for superglobal-related issues Ivo Jansch's happy look into frustrations other developers have had (ex. this search)    Check out this handy tool and see what you think. Does it provide too much access to code that needs to stay out of hacker's hands? Or does it promote the "open" in open source better than most of the tools out there?
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A new product from Swarmcast monitors data flow to optimize video quality.
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An airfare predictor and subway guide, restaurant reviews and car sharing
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The software maker is in the midst of a major revamp to its search product. Over the coming weeks, the company will make more changes, including to the engine itself. Whether the changes add up to more eyeballs is an open question.
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Copernic Desktop Search does the work without Google's security flaws.
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I&#8217;m playing the devil&#8217;s advocate here, so keep that in mind in case I end up trampling all over anything you hold dear :) Google has taken a lot of flak on a lot of issues in the past few years - it&#8217;s a price an industry leader invariably has to pay.  Apart from Blogger spam [...]
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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.
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Are MyDoom offshoots an attempt to throw Microsoft off-balance?
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Users will see book excerpts alongside ordinary Google Web page search results.