“What did people do before the internet?” is a question I’ve heard many times. Having been around pre-web, I can just about remember what life was like. People certainly used to talk to one another more, we used to write letters or call people and libraries and bookshops did a lot more trade than they do now.

But when the web first came along, many of us were a bit bewildered by this big new virtual beast that seemed to connect things. We didn’t understand it. Many of us certainly didn’t know how to use it. Then along came search engines. The good, the bad and the downright ugly.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that search is still not as good as we, the users, want it to be. But how to improve it? You can’t change what you don’t understand, so to see just where search is going right, and wrong, we’ve started the big search debate.

We want to hear what you really rate and hate about your search experience. Has it got better over the years or worse? However you feel about search, let us know here. It’ll take just a few moments of your time.

You could also win an Xbox 360 Elite for your trouble too.

It would seem even Apple has days where it changes its mind about things seemingly previously set in stone.

Just last week, its next generation, super speedy iPhone launched, dubbed iPhone 3G S. Notice the space between the 3G and S part of the moniker?

Much as it pained us to do so, we respected this branding in everything we’ve written about the device thus far. But from now on, we’re just going to write iPhone 3GS. It looks neater, makes more sense and all that jazz. What’s more, it also appears that that’s how Apple plans to write it from now on too.

The web is awash with news stories focusing on how Apple has done a - very small, granted - u-turn on this new naming convention, but as yet Apple hasn’t released an official statement. Instead, it just didn’t use the extra spacing when it announced that its new device had sold one million units in just three days.

We first assumed this was just a typo. But then we glimpsed at the historical press releases and announcements about the 3G S, sorry 3GS - over the last week or two - all of which used to have an extra space, but now do not.

Is there a spacing shortage somewhere else, which Apple has kindly donated to, or has it just seen sense?

Tomorrow is not just another Tuesday. Oh no. Apparently, tomorrow Opera will be re-inventing the web.

I’ve never tried to re-invent the web myself before, so I’m not quite sure how long it will take, or just how tricky a task it is. But I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.

We’ve been invited to attend a webcast tomorrow afternoon that promises to reveal all. Until then, we’re left with a very cryptic holding page on Opera’s website and an invitation that claims Opera will use its 15-year history to “introduce a technology that will forever change the fundamental fabric of the web.”

The company’s chief executive and chief development officer will be among the speakers, during an event that promises to give us more detail about “one of Opera’s most significant innovations to date.”

What could it be? There’s a cloud on the holding page… A hint I wonder, or perhaps then again just a pretty picture?

Watch this space..

Apple’s Worldwide Developer conference (WWDC) kicks off on Monday and all eyes will be on the computing giant to see if it serves up the sort of announcements that everyone is hoping for.

There’s speculation aplenty that the company will announce updated iPhone software as well as unveiling the next generation version of the popular handset - or maybe even a couple. There’s talk about a higher end 32GB iPhone as well as a smaller-memory lower end, cheaper flavour too.

Names doing the rounds on the rumour mill for the beefier version of the iPhone include the iPhone Video. If this proves to be true, it may well sum up what the device is capable of, but it’s hardly a name that’s going to set the world alight is it?

Moving onto bigger devices such as Apple Macs, the company’s Snow Leopard operating system is also likely to get a bit of time in the spotlight as it’s due for full release later this year.