Google announced today that they have improved their search results again. Google has an improved algorythm to better understand the relationship and meaning of words and they also provide longer text snippets for long tail searches.

Detailed information is available at the Google Blog.

I came across a neat way to mashup an application by accident. I was looking for a live news ticker for my PC and came across one from CNN. As I started using it and setting it up, I discovered that I could add RSS feeds to it. Since I read about 40 or 50 blogs, to keep up and find out if it worked, I entered the RSS feeds into the application and it worked.

Now, when one of the blogs I follow has an update, I get a pop-up alert. That makes it soooo much easier than checking all the blogs every day or every other day.

Watch the video below to see how to do it.

Down load the ticker at

http://edition.cnn.com/services/desktopnews/

I hope you like this.