Microsoft wants in at Yahoo!

It seems that Microsoft wants to buy a rather large piece of Yahoo.  I don’t know what this will mean for Yahoo’s future (besides the monetary value) but I’m glad that I moved all my email and searching to Google.

New Google search results

Google is working on redoing their search results.  I was thinking something like Ask.com’s binocular’s but the way Google is doing it seems better (of course).  Here are some preview screenshots.

Cool Yahoo! tool

Came upon this over at a Yahoo Search blog.
You can pull up any search result at Yahoo and send it straight to a cell phone. Very impressive…and I’m becoming more impressed with Yahoo the more they keep developing cool stuff (like their new email system).

LiveSearch for WP

Freakin’ sweet people. Something that TextPattern has in it’s version 4.0.x product, WordPress will have on its hosted service and hopefully version 1.6.
For those of you who don’t know, “live search” tells the submit button on your search form to take a hike, leaving just an entry box to type in. As you [...]

Google IM LIVE before official release

Check it:

Google is using the Jabber client, as I posted earlier. So, using Trillian’s Jabber plug-in (you can also use Gaim, etc.), I tried connecting to google’s IM server using:
server: talk.google.com (it’s like Yahoo….everything is “service”.yahoo.com)
user: xxxxxxxx@gmail.com
pass: “gmail password”
And smack. I’m on. No-one to chat with [...]