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- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business websites
- Non-profit and organisational websites
- Community-based portals
- School and church websites
- Personal or family homepages
Coming in with a BING!
June 12th, 2009No doubt, by now all you techno buffs out there have heard of Bing, the new search engine by Microsoft, which went live on June 1, 2009.
While Bing’s core index is the same as Microsoft Live Search, Bing comes with some notable additions including:
§ the listing of search suggestions in real time as queries are entered
§ a list of related searches, called ‘Explorer pane’ which display on the left side of search results
§ instant previews of websites and videos
§ automatic categorisation of search results
§ ‘Best Match’ results with deep links
§ Save & Share’ search histories via Windows Live SkyDrive, Facebook and e-mail
There has been much debate in the media and online about how Bing compares with Google and other search engines and if Google now has competition for the top spot. A quantifiable way to measure this is being worked on by Michael Kordahi of Microsoft. He has developed and is refining a blind search engine that displays results in three columns with identical formatting representing actual results from Bing, Google and Yahoo where users can vote for the best results.
Even if Bing turns out to be the better search engine, the question still remains if Googles’ brand loyal followers can be lured away. Not to mention that Google’s search tools are commonly pre-installed in new PC’s and that Google is the default search engine for Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox. Bing certainly has an uphill climb but perhaps it has anticipated the ever increasing wants and needs of today’s sophisticated Internet user.
Joomla Coming Soon!
April 30th, 2009The word Joomla is being banded about the Internet at a rate these days but what is it?
Joomla is an award winning content management system (CMS), which enables users to build websites and online applications. As Joomla is an open source solution it is a free project.
Joomla can be used to build:
We have jumped on the Joomla bandwagon and our Development Team is currently incorporating the Joomla interface as a tool that our clients can use to manage their websites.
We are very excited by this development, and look forward to offering our clients even more management solutions.
Watch this space for updates and our Joomla launch.
