Arhiva din January, 2007

How to “Go” Places Quicker on the Internet

Many common Internet searches can be performed quickly using the “go” shortcut. For example, if you open Search in Internet Explorer and type go yellow pages, the page will jump to a form where you can lookup a business phone number. Likewise, typing go email automatically brings up a form for searching for a person’s [...]

How to speed up windows shearches

Windows can create an index of the files on your computer to speed up searching. To create this index, open Search, then choose Change preferences and then With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).

Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Reckon you won’t upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That’s looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft’s latest email blast. The company has put out a call for “customers and partners (to) actively test and provide feedback on Windows Vista SP1 to help us prepare [...]

Microsoft Search Is Dying

MSN/Live Search only managed a weak 515,526,000 searches in November The November search share rankings for the United States are in, courtesy of Nielsen//NetRatings.

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Partner

Freedom of expression and user privacy rights will be defined by a new code of conduct adopted by a coalition of non-governmental organizations including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. The NGOs with the triumvirate of Internet giants at the top will elaborate a code of conduct that will be focused on delivering protection for free speech [...]