Blogs by Myles Wilson

The verb ‘to Google’ is commonly used and has become a part of popular culture. Like Hoover, Kleenex, Xerox and Post-it, the Google brand has became a verb and was officially added into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006.
Being the recognised leader in search (with 65% of the market share) it’s a brand that we [...]

Google-owned YouTube, announced partnerships on Thursday with Sony Pictures, BBC Worldwide, CBS, Discovery Networks, Lionsgate, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, National Geographic, PBS, Sony's Crackle, Starz and others that will feature television shows and full length feature films.
Users can visit  http://www.youtube.com/movies which currently includes mostly older movies like Cliffhanger and St Elmos Fire and http://www.youtube.com/shows for old [...]

Vuyani's neighbouring high school Guguletu Comprehensive hosted the Vuyani Primary Beauty Contest 2009 on Saturday afternoon in the school hall.

The contest is a fundraiser for Vuyani and I was very honoured to be invited to be one of the judges.
The start was delayed by an hour during which time the stage appeared to [...]

Google's new Apps Status Dashboard is a daily update on any outages or disruptions. Drawing attention to breakdowns when they occur seams to be part of Google's pledge to be more open about service outages.
A few weeks ago a small amount (no number were released) of Gmail's 100 million users were locked out of their [...]

The new Wolfram Alpha search engine – due to be launched in May of this year apparently has the ability to compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.
The brainchild of Stephen Wolfram (famous as the inventor of Mathematica) Wolfram Alpha uses semantics as its approach (the meaning of words rather just the [...]

I
have to admit when i first heard i had to review a blog on  Silicon
Valley news it didn't fill me with a huge amount of excitement. I had
never visited the site and I thought 'here we go again' another site
filled  with news on the latest movers and shakers in the IT world, the
next Google or [...]

Yesterday was Data privacy day 2009. Well apparently not in South Africa it wasn't but it was in the United States, Canada and 27 European countries. The purpose of the day is to educate and make users aware of the best way to protect their information online.
With 55 percent of online American teens between 12 [...]

A few of the Tamar CT staff are heading off to Vuyani on Wednesday morning to meet up with Mahlubi (The Headmaster of Vuyani) for our first CSR planning meeting of 2009. Some of the issues we intend to discuss are recycling, the Vuyani library and the vegetable garden. Here is picture of Mahlubi taken [...]

After a highly successful CSR project in 2008, the CT office is gearing up and getting very excited about 2009.  The 2009 CSR will be Tamar's third successive project at Vuyani Primary School in Gugletu and we're very proud about our work and ongoing relationship with the school.
To jog your memories, here is a [...]

Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search products and user experience at Google shared some of her  thoughts on SEO recently. She says that SEO is likely to become less focused on keywords in the future with the possibility of returning
results based on user questions rather than keywords. She added that making web-based data easy to access [...]