Google Operating System – an unofficial source of news and tips about Google – is reporting that Google will ”launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter.” According to the piece, certain search queries will trigger Google’s ”MicroBlogsearch universal search group” – which is described as functioning in a manner similar to Google’s blog search. In other words, aggregating and making sense out of the millions of active Tweets at any given time, and somehow ranking the Tweets according to a Google algorithm applied to the data. Click to continue »

Green?

Be green to get green…

Do you remember last year when web hosts and data centers were turning ‘green’ 20 a dozen in a bid to “save the environment”? I do – ‘green’ was quite the buzzword at the time and it seemed that anyone who wasn’t turning green was basically turning their back on Mother Earth. Back then I personally questioned whether there was a bandwagon effect taking place, and as they say, if there’s any doubt, there’s no doubt. Click to continue »