Tag: SEARCH ENGINE

Web sites that let you access multiple search engines are nothing new. Dogpile and similar services have been around for years. But a couple of new multi-site search engines are making the search process prettier, if not more useful. Sputtr and Symbaloo let you search one site at a time, but from a central location. The idea is that you'll bookmark one of these sites, and then you'll never have ...

Ever wonder who owns the patent for local search? Of course not, because being able to search for local restaurants, transportation, or classified listings online is kind of too obvious to be patented, right? Apparently not. Local.com has picked up a patent for local search. Patent 7,231,405 refers to a process for "indexing and retrieving web-related information by geographical location." Does ...

So what do you do if you're a giant search company that happens to own two separate and kind of competing video sharing services? If you guessed this isn't really a hypothetical question you're smarter than you look. So Google goes and buys YouTube for a ridiculous amount of money, and then has to figure out what to with the much less popular Google Video. Today, we have our answer: turn it into ...

FindSounds is a website that helps you... are you ready for this? Find sounds. We know, it's shocking that someone would give a web service a useful and descriptive name, but there you go. Say you want to find the sound of a jackhammer, or a forest. Just visit FindSounds, type your query into a search box, and you're whisked away to a page of matching results. Click on the sound icon next to each ...

Search engine Ask.com has launched a new site design. When you first navigate to the website, you'll see a clean page with a search bar and a couple of icons representing different types of searches (web, images, city, news, blogs, etc). It's a bit like Google, if Google had icons next to its search types. But once you enter a search term, things are very different. First off, if you pause for a ...

The European Union's data protection advisory group sent a letter to Google this month asking why the company keeps records of user searches for up to two years. The underlying issue here is whether Google and other search engines are violating users' privacy rights by maintaining search records, even if those records are used to improve the user experience by offering personalized search ...

QueryCAT has a new take on the search engine. Rather than scanning the web for a answers to your queries, the search engine looks specifically at Frequently Asked Question pages. When it works well, you get a pretty decent response to your question listed right on the front page, no click-through necessary. That's because the site has found a direct match to your question and displayed the ...

Is it difficult to find the best websites with search engines or directories? Dfinitive thinks it can help. As it currently stands, Dfinitive looks as if it is recreating the famous DMOZ open directory project by trying to take the best elements of a directory site, search engine and a bookmarking site and teaming it up with a mix of experts in the areas they feel are lacking. Dfinitive plans to ...

Hot on the heels of Yahoo, Google has launched an update to its mobile search page. There are a few major changes: Customize your personal home page with gadgets including stock listings, news feeds, and movie listings. Google's mobile search page now remembers your location. So if you were looking for movie listings in Des Moines, then decided to look for a barber shop, Google would show ...

Just when you thought the world of web analytics was a little bland, Basil arrives to spice things up a bit. Basil takes out the pages of raw web traffic data that we once had to sift through and analyze, and does all the hard work for us. They provide easy to use clean interface design [reminding us of Mint] to make it easier for figuring out what the popular pages of your website are, and what ...

Sometimes it's hard to locate that piece of software you've been after for quite sometime. Or maybe you just want to test out some new applications to see if they work for you. Check out Deligio, a search engine designed to locate shareware and freeware. Nice concept, but how does it fair out? Well, let's just say, for us download junkies, let's bookmark it, and keep checking back. In a search ...

The team at Microsoft has agreed to acquire a company which specializes in medical information. Medstory Inc, is a small company that produced an artificial intelligence software which picks up and scans medical and health information in medical journals, government documents and the internet. The Medstory team will join the Microsoft's Health Solutions Group which will manage the development ...

Learning to search the web can be frustrating for children. One simple spelling mistake is all it takes to make a search query useless. Plus, most search engines don't help the user find related information, so they cannot quickly and easily hone their search to find exactly what they're looking for. Quintura is a search engine that we have discussed previously here, and here. Most recently, ...

Searching for electronics usually tends to be somewhat tedious. Researching and trying to gauge the feel for a new product can totally turn you off of even considering said product. You scour the internet looking for the best prices and what users and owners experiences are with the product. With lots of research areas out there, one that I tend to rank highly when making a decision is CNet.com. ...

A new search engine targeted at people aged 50-plus called Cranky.com launched on Tuesday. Billed as the first age-relevant search engine, the developer of the engine designed it to deliver the most targeted results for this demographic. They did this by applying a "50-plus lens to every query". So the results are based on both search technology, reviews and users ratings. Eons, the developer, ...