New search engines ... or are they?

Interesting article in today's WSJ: "Search For Better Ways to Search". The article describes how the big search engine companies (Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Microsoft) have deployed new search engine technologies, without tarnishing their names with possible acceptance issues or bugs.

• Google: SearchMash.com. The big feature they are testing is a coexistence of multiple searches on the same page: photo, blog, videos and wikipedia.
• Yahoo: Alltheweb.com.
• Ask.com: AskX.com
  

And, the most fun, from Microsoft: MsDewey.com. This the most fun to check out. Ms. Dewey will entertain you while you are searching.

OS Courses From Berkley

UC Berkley has some courses online. They offer a video feed and have some material that students use in the classroom.

CS 162 Operating Systems and Systems Programming (Fall 2006)

All of 2007 Courses. Semester has only started, so not much posted yet, but you can click on "Other Semesters" in the top right hand corner to see previous lectures.


- Dima