• September 17th, 2009
• Filed in
  • Google
  • Web Development

The other day I came upon an article that brought to light a hidden google feature for “live search” over at Search Engline Land Find What’s New In The Last Minute Or Second.

Search results are only as good as their relevancy. Sometimes the highest ranking results are stale but the google spider seems to like it regardless. If i’m not happy w/ results or I need timely results I find myself searching on Twitter or Delicious to get some good ‘ol human suggestions.

Now that I can get timely Google results I’ll add this tool in my arsenal. Only thing it’s a pain in the ass to remember the extra get params (&tbs=qdr:X##&tbo=1) that Google needs appended to the given search url so I made a bookmarklet to make things KISS. After your search, just trigger the bookmarklet (defaults to 1 day) and go from there.

Google Liveify « drag to your toolbar

Google Live Reference

Just add these to the end of your search url if you want to override the 24hour default.

&tbs=qdr:X##&tbo=1

The X## portion gets replaced with:

• s## for number of seconds in the past: &tbs=qdr:s45&tbo=1
• n## for number of minutes &tbs=qdr:n5&tbo=1
• h## for number of hours &tbs=qdr:h2&tbo=1

You get the idea. Enjoy!

• March 10th, 2008
• Filed in
  • Apple
  • Google
  • Premonitions

ReadWriteWeb has an excellent article on why Apple is posed to dominate the next generation of computing. It’s a very good article and I recommend reading it. It talks about why Apple’s software is rock solid and how the very basis of all of their software is light years ahead of everyone.

It’s funny because as much as I love Apple software, at the end of the day I know the future of software in the broadest sense belongs to Google. The computer of the future will be the network and cloud computing. I honestly think when we’re wired enough and fiber optics (or something better) is woven into our very being, we’ll be utilizing thin clients – probably 10th generation iPhones. Down the line (ridiculously far down the line) their lead in hardware is what really sets them apart. Even Google can’t catch up, it’s just not in their DNA. Both of these tech companies are already poised to transform our relationship with “computers”. Google on the OS, Apple on the hardware. You can take that to the bank. Hell I’m already most of the way there. I’m a Google Apps junkie who lives on his MacBook and wants a 3G iPhone like you read about.

What do you think the future holds for computing?

ReadWriteWeb Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing