No need to Search !!! just ask to Ms. Dewey :)

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Hey, Do you know Ms. Dewey? No??? Okay I will introduce her. It is a search engine owned by Microsoft. The Ms. Dewey website is an Adobe Flash-based experimental interface for Windows Live Search. Ms. Dewey is a fully animated search assistant who audibly comments on searched keywords in her own style and makes random actions when idle.The role of the Ms. Dewey character is played by the famous American actruss Janina Gavankar. You need atleast medium speed internet connection to catch her.

Experiance the difference… here

Technorati tags: Ms.Dewey, Microsoft, Janina Gavankar

“Google Answers” is shutting down…

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Google took the decision to shutdown Google Answers; a service that allows users to pose a question to a panel of researchers and pay for a helpful answer. The service, which started about four years ago, failed to gain much traction with users, especially when compared to a rival service offered by Yahoo, which is free. At Yahoo Answers, anyone can ask questions and he can select the best answers to each. The other members will get the oppertunity to rate each answers.
‘Google Answers’ is only stoped receving the new questions. It still provides the facility to search the existing answers through the search box or the category links poviding there.

Google Answers, Yahoo Answers
Source : here
Technorati tags: Google, Yahoo

Microsoft ‘Vista’ released to Business customers

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Microsoft’s new operating system ‘Vista’ started its global roll-out today. It is now released for the business customers only and OS will be available to the private users from the next January 30th onwards. The system is a replacement for the firm’s current Windows XP operating system.

Source: BBC

Technorati tags: Microsoft, Windows, Vista

The new version of Compass is released

The third milestone release of version 1.1 ( version 1.1 M3) of COMPASS is released. It includes the following major features…

  • Support for polymorphic relationships
  • Better cyclic mappings support
  • FS Transactional Log
  • Runtime Settings
  • JdbcDirectory support Oracle 9
  • Initial XA Support
  • Performance Improvement

At the same time one other important news is that, hibernate is already started to add more features which will helpful to integrate Lucene directly to an application without using Compass framework.

Read more about this from it’s founder’s blog
Related post : Compass- a java search engine framework build on lucene
Technorati tags: Compass, Hibernate

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