Microsoft is publicly showing off its new search engine, formerly code-named Kumo, now known officially as Bing. The revamped search tool has several new features, including a left-hand navigation pane for moving among different types of searches, category breakdowns for search results, and bringing some information directly into the results page.
CNET NEWS – How Microsoft’s Bing came to be
Seriously, Google is going to take over the world! As they announced today at Google I/O a new communication service called Google Wave which is “equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”
You can see screenshots of the service and check out details of the API. I guess we will be seeing this compete/intergrate with Twitter once it’s made available later this year.
Lots of behind the scene improvements have happened over the last month here at Mavromatic. Moved the site over to WordPress from Movable Type, redirected all the old content with 301’s, improved performance with caching and last night I finally changed over to “clean urls”. This will improve SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and also make it easier if I ever decided to move to another blog platform.
Another enhancement is that if you access Mavromatic via an iPhone/iPod Touch you will see that the format is faster and better suited for the display. This is made possible by a handy WordPress Plug-in called WPtouch iPhone Theme.
I hope you continue to enjoy Mavromatic and keep sending in those tips and stories! Also, if there is anything you would like me to review please email me (tips -at- mavromatic.com).
Until next time, this is Danny Mavromatis for Mavromatic, Over-and-out!
