Jonga launches

Jonga, a new South African search engine, launched today. Via Tectonic:

After a two year labour of love, coffee and coding, Alistair Carruthers unveils South Africa’s biggest search engine. Carruthers marries open source technologies like Lucene with Microsoft’s proprietary .Net framework for a truly inspiring result.

The local search engine market has quite a history.

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Windows Live

The difference between Google and Microsoft as I see it, apart from both trying to dominate the world, is when Google release a Beta product, it does actually work.

I visited Windows Live (live.com) today, via /..

What is Windows Live?
Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That’s the basic idea behind Windows Live. So

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MSN Search review

I just checked out the (new design?) MSN Search website. My observations below should substantiate any doubt you ever had that Microsoft were serious competition for Google.

I started by searching for this site, first using the search term “coda”, then “coda.coza”, then “coda.co.za”.
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Damien on Google

I just did a Google Search for my first name, I don’t even think I come up as a result. Although I do own damien.co.za but it’s just a parked domain. What I found interesting is this: Damien Rice (.com) is the first result. His co.uk is listed on the second page, and when I did my … view full post

Another GIS Game

Another GIS Game™ brought to you by coda.coza.

Your task is this: visit Google Image Search and spend a few minutes to find the most arbitrary, random photo. Post as a comment, the link to your found photo along with the search keywords used.

If you’re unsure of how to create a link, here’s an example:
<a href=”link_goes_here”>link_goes_here</a>

My face. In your face.

I hate advertising on the web. I hate unnecessarily intrusive advertising on the web. I hate unnecessarily intrusive advertising on the web of random people portraits to sell even more advertising … view full post

I totally 0wn this google search result

I totally 0wn this google search result

/* drunk now, fix later */

I arrived at work this morning to find that my bromeliad had flowered!!

Just kidding. Sorry Ian, will buy you a drink later tonight. But, this is on a tangent, I have noticed how many dandelions there are in the air here… maybe it’s just me. So what I wanted to say is, I thought this would be … view full post

It’s all relative

The digicam.coza album from my two nights stay in Stilbaai is up. Due to my being away, I haven’t had much time to work on redesigning digicam.coza, but I hope to get it done asap. My portfolio is important too.

Lock your doors! Hide your samoosas! taminthecity has arrived!! ;)
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Google delist perverted site

From The Register: Google pulls sick site, following Chester protests

Google has removed a perverted Web site from its search listings following a public outcry from people in Chester, England. There was outrage when it was discovered that anyone innocently tapping

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