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Short Takes: July 1, 2009

By SD Times Editorial Board

July 1, 2009 — (Page 1 of 2)
Binging on a similar search engine
Microsoft's Live Search never got me the results that I was looking for; Bing is a substantial improvement. The results mirror what I get from Google, but Bing does not seem to spider pages as quickly.

There are a lot of head-to-head comparisons that have been done, and Bing has held its own. It is very competitive for a first release, but it may not be enough to wrestle substantial market share away from Google. Being just as good as Google is not good enough. I'm not going to change my search habits just because something new is equivalent to what I'm already using. — David Worthington

The 'M' stands for 'Missing'
M-Audio, M-Audio, wherefore art thou, M-Audio?

In the "personal crisis for Jeff, but no one else cares" department, a music and audio device known as M-Audio has gone missing. It is a small silver device that plugs into my laptop and serves as an adapter, letting me connect my electric guitar, bass or keyboard to the laptop for recording music.

However, after a move into a new apartment and several renovations at the house I grew up in, M-Audio went the way of the milk carton. And I'm not happy! I get annoyed when I lose a pen, and this is a bit more expensive than a pen.

So I am forming a search party out of any folks willing to come to New York. The blue team will take the upstairs bedrooms, the green team will search the basement, and the red team will just eat milk and cookies; that will be the team I'm on.

M-Audio, please come back to me! (whimper whimper) — Jeff Feinman

Google's blazing its own trail
Recently, I had to clean up a blog post. Not because the writer used bad language, but because he committed the ultimate faux pas: pasting directly from Microsoft Word into the blog engine.

The bizarre HTML tags output from Word resulted in goofy output as well as a polluted RSS stream. Many people have written about the strange HTML output from Microsoft Word. But that’s what happens when a company decides that it knows better than everyone else and insists on doing things its own way.

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07/01/2009 10:26:39 AM EST

On Google's unfinished products... I hope they never finish. The net is always changing. Static might work for some, but the web is more dynamic than that. Even the outdated eMail system we all use is not really finished in the sense that we keep adding things to help deal with the changes in security alone. As far as I'm concerned, we can leave the static to history and classic novels.

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