Interesting article on Mixergy with suggestions from other entrepreneurs on how to find an idea for a new startup. What stood out for me was this: Run some cheap tests Though this only applies once you have an idea, I thought it was an excellent suggestion on using Google AdWords to run ads based on [...]
You can submit your site to Microsoft’s new Bing search engine here in case it isn’t already getting indexed. BTW, the search bot for the Bing search engine is named the same as the one used by MSN Search — MSNBot.
I use the excellent Outclass plugin for Outlook which embeds the POPFile bayesian email classifier as a COM add-in to Microsoft Outlook. After about two years of trouble free use, suddenly it caused Outlook to crash. When restarted, Outlook crashed again. The next time I started Outlook, Outlook popped up a dialog asking me if [...]
Many times when using CVS under Windows XP, I have the problem that a “cvs update” fails to update some file or the other without any apparent reason. Turns out that this is because the file in question is open in some application, which, for some reason has thrown out a dialog-box with the file [...]
It seems like Bing’s index is not as current as Google’s possibly because Bing doesn’t crawl web-site’s as fast as Google does. My first blog post to create a Firefox addon for Bing got indexed within hours by Google and showed up in it’s search results. But it is yet to appear in Bing’s search [...]
I was trying out the new Bing search engine from Microsoft for various searches over the last few days (for things I would normally use Google) just to get a feel for how well it performs. Like almost everyone else, I found the results were surprisingly good — comparable to results from Google. But as [...]