Will I dump Google?

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Written on 12:59:00 PM by Oakie Chiraskamin

We heard "Do you Yahoo?" then we heard "Do you Google?" For me, Google is my everything - my encyclopedia, second opinion, information mining, solution, slang, daily life. Until today, the day that i found Quintura, i think i like it (well, not enough to dump Google coz Quintura is still in beta.)

I admit that Google search is good but Quintura is beyond that. Quintura is a visual search engine based on Yahoo search engine. A search returns both a list of search results and a tag cloud. The tag cloud contains the original search terms surrounded by related tags. They apply clustering approach into the system. After playing around, i found it smart and helpful. But the design and layout of website are still lame.

Let me tell you something more graphic. When i entered "Carat"term in the search box and clicked enter, the left part of the screen showed the tag cloud of "Carat" term and on right-hand side was the search results.

Carat basically is a unit of mass of gemstones but if you move your mouse icon to "service" tag, the new search results will come out to be like Carat media agency and Carat Fusion interactive agency. (yeah, i am ex-Carat) + new related tag cloud will pop up. It sounds cool, doesn't it? This clustering technique also applies to the image searching as well. The battle of search engine is about to begin like seeing Decepticon and Autobots fighting.

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I was tagged

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Written on 11:44:00 PM by Oakie Chiraskamin

Surprisingly, i was tagged by Doug of Planning for fun. Thanks Doug for tagging me and your compliment about my prolific blog. When someone tags you and links to you, you need to tag another 5 people and write 5 things about yourself in order to farther this tagging thing. (I really wanna know who is the first tagger? but i am too lazy to trackback the links)


Well, here are my 5 things

1. When Pokemon firstly launched in the US market, i could remember all of 152 characters and their name. At that time, some of my friends called me "pikachu" instead of my real name.

2. I failed in accounting courses. I didn't even know what the debit and credit are? (Well i am not sure i do now)

3. I usually wash my face with water, hardly apply facial foam or facial cleanser to my face.

4. When i was 5, i put a tiny eraser in my nose and couldn't get it out by myself. Then my dad took me to the hospital after coming back from a kindergarten. It's a shame that i didn't tell my teacher but i left it in my nose for 4 hours.

5. I thought i couldn't stop nails biting but i finally made it. It was not good habit.


I would like to tag :

1. Adcentered : VCU adcenter student /contributes an insight of life from adcenter.
2. Ben Mason of Fond of ideas : awarded from Russell by APSotW (apple assignment)
3. Iain Tait of Crackunit.com : i am trying to read all old posts of this blog (i like his blog)
4. American Copywriter (John or Tug) : leads the Kansas Coffee Morning
5. The fruits of imagination : Leo Burnett Canada.

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