Blogs by Myles Wilson

Using the Internet has become an integral part of how we chose to spend Christmas with people logging on to get in touch with with friends and loved ones.
In a survey conducted by the Post Office Internet usage over the festive season increased by 25% from last year. With  84% of people logging on [...]

Its been another big year for the Internet. Following on from the release of Yahoo's top searches in 2008, Google has revealed its top searches for 2008 in its Year-End Zeitgeist.
The most searched term for Google users in the UK and in South Africa was Facebook. Hardly surprising considering the ever increasing growth of the [...]

Not for the first time Britney Spears has ended the year as the most popular search term on Yahoo.com. Amazingly she ended up top of the list for the last seven out of eight years.
With today being only the 2nd of December (co-indecently also Britney's birthday) it seems a little premature to be reviewing the [...]

There are over a billion land line numbers that you can dial worldwide (350 million in China alone). The number surprised me at first considering the population of the world is 6.7 billion people. The arrival of Voice over IP (VOIP) and with it Skype gave us the ability to talk via the internet allowing [...]

Rather like everyone else who has contributed to the ‘the best websites
in the world’ series of blogs, pin pointing my favourite 3 websites was
surprisingly difficult.

As part of the search team here at Tamar browsing the internet
(obviously in a constructive workmanlike fashion) forms much of my
working day. I also spend a fare amount of leisure time [...]

Americans went to the polling stations yesterday to vote for a new president. Its common knowledge and no real surprise that the internet has had a significant impact on what many believe to be the most important elections the U.S. has ever seen. The elections will go down as the most expensive ever with $1bn [...]

Not long ago our company mail server grinded to a halt as it reached its maximum storage capacity. After some investigating I was told that I was guilty of having the largest mailbox in the company and that I should do a good clean out.
In my defense there are two reasons for this. The first [...]

Here are a few interesting Google snippets.

Google has raked in $48 billion from Internet ads since 2001
Far from stashing all of it, the company has paid $15 billion in commissions to the web sites that run its ads contributing to the success of major sites like AOL, Ask.com and MySpace as well as an array [...]

‘Google Suggest’ is Google’s ‘new’ auto complete search feature which gives you automatic recommendations when you begin a search.

The feature aims at eliminating the need for Google’s "Did you mean?" feature which pops up when you mispell words.
The feature is not totally new as its has been in
development in Google’s Labs since 2004 [...]

After a lengthy battle with bureaucracy all the donated goods from the UK where finally delivered to Vuyani this week.
The books were particularly warmly received by the principal. Vuyani doesn’t have a library and so they rely on a few mobile bookshelves which are wheeled between the classes.
Big thanks to everyone involved in [...]