Think you’re smarter?

It was just in the previous post that I had mentioned the G company and sometime ago I got introduced to this new search engine SNAP.

For those of you who are relatively new to this, read on.

To keep it short and simple, you just enter your search term or phrase and voila the results show a graphically rich snapshop of the websites listed there.

Why is SNAP better?

Those of us who do a lot of searching know that search could be better. A lot better. Consider these realities of the frequent searcher:

1. Frequent searchers use three or more search engines (I for one use Google and MSN. Google because we all know it’s the big bully out there and MSN because it’s friendly to new sites that are listed)
2. 50% of searches end in failure (Quite often you come across spam sites. So if you are looking for something that is free to download, then you would end up with a ‘Free Download for only $50.’ Know what I mean?)
3. Total round trip time for an average search is 15 minutes (Hmmm, I would clock it to less than 5 minutes, unless I really have nothing to do and I feel compelled to search beyond the 5th search results page)

Snap – The other way to Search

Snap is a new search engine that offers a very different alternative to the Big Search, Text-In, Text-Out, method. Snap is visual. Snap is fast. Snap is Interactive.

The Snap Difference #1:    Fast Visual Display of Results Previews
The Snap Difference #2:   Actively Anticipating Your Intent
The Snap Difference #3:   Direct Interactivity with Your Search Results
The Snap Difference #4:   Better Relevance through Successful Past Searches

The Snap Difference to You:   Faster Speed to Satisfaction

So well, there you have it.

For those interested to read more about this, you can get all the juice from here.

Not that I was dead or something, but this cool new tool is awesome- Windows Live Writer. I’m always a sucker for Microsoft and despite learning it the hard way that they ain’t worth the loyalty, I still fall for their new product releases and beta launches.

Ok, perhaps the very name beta translates to ’screwed up’ software, but there is a certain amount of ’screwing up’ that can be tolerated.

It was hardly a couple of months ago that I downloaded their new IE7  which was an exact copy of the AOL browser. And well, what followed next was evident. My system went into a deep slumber and had to be restarted everytime IE was launched.

This later resulted in the obvious uninstall, but little did I know that the installation of IE7 screwed up my older version. To cut the story short, I had to reinstall my OS and thank you IBM for making that ‘ Access IBM’ button, by far it’s the most respected application launcher on my notebook.

So today, I thought that perhaps I should visit their ‘Live‘ website to see what new ideas they came up with. And I was keenly interested in their Live Writer, which i’m currently using to publish this post and the Live Mail Desktop.

History repeated itself again with the mail application. Ok, the interface looked pretty interesting, but well just like the IE 7 this mail application too almost… almost screwed up my outlook.

So far this Live Writer application seems to be working fine. Touchwood. And if this works, then perhaps I don’t need to login to blogger ever again.

In other news, it was frustrating to hear that Google is now butting into the software development field. How pathetic can it get, and what’s even more sad is the fact that the bigwig Microsoft just seems like it’s too heavy to pull itself ahead.

Not to forget the fact that Apple elected Google CEO Schmidt to it’s board. From the looks of it, perhaps Google might be trying to get into other ventures, or maybe this was a firefighting exercise from the Apple executives to stop Google from developing their Google Music which could very well be pitted against iTunes or the more hidden agenda would be the launch of a….. GTunes, maybe?

Being an ardent fan of Mr. Jobs (and owning a G4Power notebook is and will always be a fantasy) i’m hoping that he’d be able to get his act together and be that aggressive and an unpredictable boss and maybe screw up Schmidt and there by Google, indirectly. I for one would be happy. And if you ask me why I hate Google, well it’s a long story…. another day.

For now, I just hope this application would be able to get my post up.