Ask adds smileys and emoticons to its search results

Ask adds smileys and emoticons to its search results

Smiling faces have been popular on the Web and in text messages for years. Now search engine Ask likes and uses them too. A search for :-/ on Ask reveals that the emoticon typically means sceptical, uncertain or wry.

Hitler: The Comedy?

Dany Levy, a Jewish director is making a comedic movie about Hitler titled " My Fuehrer - The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler."  The movie is said to portray Hitler as a bed-wetter suffering from sexual...

The Eyes Have It: Culture and Emotional Cues

Ultimately, people around the world seem to want the same things: happiness, security, a home, food on the table, and a snazzier mobile phone than the person on their right or left. However, our culture and...

EU warns firms on text charging

After cheaper calls we will maybe get cheaper texts and data. Traveling in Europe will soon become much cheaper mobile phone bill wise that is."Europe's mobile phone operators have been warned they must cut the cost...

"Here's My Essay. :) Sorry It's Late. LOL."

A good friend of mine is a professor at the University of Toronto and he is absolutely perplexed by the level of informality in the academic writing submitted by his millenial students. According to him, not only are...