Just published on the Oracle ACE Program homepage: Find Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors on this Google Map. Cool!

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As you may already know, Google grabs a copy of each web page it crawls and files it away in its cache. There are exceptions to this behavior as some website owners request not to cache their content either by using robots.txt or password protecting their sites. But, the vast majority of the data Google […]

As we say bye bye to 2006, I would like to thank you, my dear reader, for reading my blog and spending part of your time leaving comments and feedback.

For me, the highlights of 2006 were:

The birth of my baby Julie The blogger of the year award The visit to Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

I would also […]

Since the introduction of the first Oracle search plugins for Firefox, a few things have changed:

Mozilla upgraded Firefox to version 2. Microsoft upgraded Internet Explorer to version 7. And Google released the Custom Search Engine.

So, what does this have to do with search plugins? Read on and you will know:

What’s new in IE7 and Firefox 2 […]

Google Notebook is very useful. It enables you to clip and gather information while you’re browsing the web. It lives in your browser and online. All your web findings are gathered into one organized, easy accessible location that you can access from any computer. In fact, I use Google Notebook to store notes and ideas […]

Using Google News Search and Technorati Blog Search in addition to some Google Reader and Feedburner magic, I have put together a web page that aggregates and displays Oracle OpenWorld related blogs and news sources.

So, if you want to stay up-to-date on the latest from Oracle OpenWorld, head on to the Oracle OpenWorld News Aggregator […]

If you use OraNA to stay current on the lastest Oracle news and blogs, you may have noticed that the aggregator was flooded by a bunch of past posts from a few Blogger’s blogspot blogs. This is because OraNA is based on Google Reader. Google Reader re-publishes updated feeds, which means that if an item […]

Google Code Search is live as of a few minutes ago. From the FAQs: Google Code Search helps you find function definitions and sample code by giving you one place to search publicly accessible source code hosted on the Internet. With Google Code Search, you can:

Use regular expressions to search more precisely Restrict your search by […]

Here are three interesting and fun things I have recently stumbled on:

Google sets:

Google sets is a Google Labs product that automatically creates sets of words from a few keywords. You enter a few keywords from a set of things, and then press “Large Set” or “Small Set” and Google tries to predict similar keywords in […]

If you use Google (and who doesn’t? Oh! well maybe these people don’t), here are a few simple, interesting and useful Google search tips and facts you may have forgotten all about:

The asterisk is a search wildcard. For example, searching for three*mice finds three blind mice, three button mice, etc. Google search currently has a […]