Webism Today

  Google appear to have added a few more search criteria to their UI. Amongst these new options are forum and review search. The UI looks a lot more like Google Blog Search where you are able to search posts from the past 24 hours, past week, past year etc. So this is a sign [...]

  It appears as if today is not going to be a slow news day. Already it’s been reported that The Guardian has taken its newspaper out of print and onto Twitter, dangerous hummingbirds have been spotted in rural Gloucestershire (by Dr Julius Doctor) and Warner Bros have acquired the Pirate Bay. It’s April 1st [...]

Google, who recently launched its new UK Street View service, has been forced to remove a number of its images; due to complaints that some of the pictures displayed are considered too revealing. Such images include a man walking into a sex shop, a man vomiting, whilst another showed a group of people being arrested; [...]

Google has revealed that the problem which caused every site on the internet to be labelled as unsafe was down to human error. For around 40 minutes (Google’s calculations) on Saturday afternoon (GMT), or for more than 90 minutes (various users’ calculations), every search result offered by Google came up with a warning that “This [...]

For a long time now Google has been the number one search engine in the US, but 2008 saw it spending a whole year covering around 65% percent of the market. Last month, however, Google jumped from 65.9% up to 72.1% according to a recent report by Hitwise. The jump could be Google clearing the [...]

Having catalogued thousands of books and now several archives of newspapers, Google has begun rolling out the digitalisation of old print magazines. As of yet Google has not created a separate section for magazines and searches are currently performed through the Google book search. As this is still a new feature, Google has only scanned [...]

After the huge viral success of alpinekat’s rap video explaining how CERN’s Large Hadron Collider works (okay, one more time), “G1 Love” is now making its rounds on every blog worth reading as the Android Forums folk show off their rapping skills. The first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, is designed for use on the [...]

According to the most recent statistics, the UK boasts 4.2 million CCTV cameras – that is one for every 14 people in the country. The small island has so many cameras that the total number of cameras in the UK counts for 20% of all the cameras in the world. With so many cameras poised [...]