Web Search–Google
First Tweak of Google News Beta
Google has made a welcome addition to their recently launched news engine. Results can now be sorted by relevance (default) or by date with the most recent articles appearing at the top of the results list. Time is determined by the time the article was crawled and then by date. The links to toggle this feature are located directly below the red bar on the right side of the page.
Examples:
1) A search for the term Enron, sorted by relevance
2) A search for the term Enron, sorted by date

And More News From the GooglePlex…

Distributed Computing
Web Search–Google
Google Toolbar
Source: ZD Net
“Can Google’s Toolbar Unlock Genes?”
From the article, Google has begun an experiment that could turn its modest toolbar software into a supercomputer to tackle scientific problems such as untangling genetic codes.” “The main motivations were to try to leverage Google’s expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science,” said Susan Wojcicki, a Google product management director and the head of the Google Compute project.Google co-founder Sergey Brin initiated the project, Wojcicki said, and people started trying the software two weeks ago. An option on Google’s toolbar lets the participants in the project download the necessary software to their computer. Google is considering offering the program to a larger audience, Wojcicki added.”
Note: The Google Toolbar is available to all Windows based IE users. However, the program described in the article is not available to the general public at this time. Stay tuned!

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