EVE Online: CCP implements Advanced Search for eve-online.com

We finally have an official way to search EVE Online's website using "The Search" from the home page on the upper right corner, or from the Standard Search page and the Advanced Search page.

From the main page you can only input the search term, but on the Standard Search page you can choose to narrow down the search for results within the Forums, the item database or EVE Insider. Quite useful! Using the Advanced interface, you can improve your search criteria even further for even better results.

(See the standard view)

And as you can see in the middle of that page, the search is powered by a Google Search Appliance, which explains the speed of the results and their accuracy. This will be helpful to both experienced EVE players, and the new players constantly joining the galaxy.

Not that you could not before. Knowledgeable EVE players have been searching the forums for some time now using EVE Search, but there was never such a useful tool on the EVE site itself. Now there is.

The Search is over, or is only beginning?

Google Video: Fear of Girls

This is funny as hell to anyone who's played or is currently playing RPGs!! Heck I remember guys like this!

This fake documentary on RPG gamers is a must see: Fear of Girls - Google Video. The guys who made it are right on the money.

Enjoy!

[Gaming] [RPG] [DnD] [video] [Google Video] [Funny]

Speed surfing with the Google Web Accelerator

Another cool utility from the Google beta labs: Google Web Accelerator Download. Came across it this morning and I must say there is a noticeable difference in the speed at which some of the sites load.

I'll see if this perception last over the next few days. The download and installation were very quick and simple - very Google-like. It works both for IE and Firefox. Once installed, it loads in your systray, so you can have it running or not. When it is though, on the top right corner of Firefox it will let you know how much time you've saved by using it.

It the few sites I've loaded to give it a run and see a difference, according to it, I've saved 14.6 seconds as I write this. This doesn't seem much, but you do notice a change; especially on sites with a lot of graphic content. The EVE Online home page loaded a lot faster than usual. A great lot.

So I'll blink Google Web Accelerator as a 'coolutility' (my BlinkList tag) and it'll appear in my Cool Utilities links section of this blog (lower on the right column).

Happy speed surfing!!

Google Talk is here!!!

Well the rumours were going around for a few weeks now, and it seems they were well founded. I've downloaded it and sent an invite to some friends. This maybe the start of the long distance revolution!!! See this article for details.

Seems Skype would make a great addition to Google's growing acquisition portfolio. Calling the world... Hello?

Here's the link!

Google Desktop 2.0 Beta

Version 2.0 of Google's desktop search tool. And though I was using Copernic's search tool for the last few months, I still was impressed their first iteration.

I'll try it for a few days and see if I want to keep using it.

Download it here.