Tag: SEARCH ENGINES

I know your secret. You've searched online to find out what happened to an old flame, where your best friend from college ended up, or whether there are incriminating anecdotes about your boss on the Internet. Google will get you some good results, but use the new iSearch search engine created just for locating people and you'll probably find incriminating anecdote of your best friend and your ...

Although it doesn't always get the most attention, Opera is a solid browser that continues to improve with each version. While they work on their next version, codenamed Peregrine (like the falcon), subtle improvements are being added to the current release, 9.51. The latest addition is Ask.com for the search bar. What do we think is so interesting about that? First, it's a step toward competing ...

Pdf search engine bills itself as a search engine to locate ebooks on the Internet. Enter in the title you are looking for and it scour the world wide web displaying links to pdf files it comes across that matches your search term. But you'd be wrong if you thought pdf search engine was just a one trick pony. While it does call itself a book search engine, the site can also locate any pdf document ...

Having trouble coming up with what to cook for dinner tonight? Maybe SuperCook can help. SuperCook is a search engine designed to find recipes based on the ingredients you have in your kitchen. On the site you enter what you have, and then SuperCook will tell you what you can make. Recipes are divided by Starters, Entrees, and Desserts and list any additional items you might need beside their ...

We know you might find this hard to believe, but Google is not the only search engine out there. No really. There are others. You might even have heard of a few, like Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, and even the oldie, but goody AltaVista. SearchBoth is a website that lets you search multiple sites at once. But unlike Dogpile, SearchBoth doesn't spit out all the results in a single stream. Instead, you can ...

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 ...

It's no secret that we've got a soft spot right in the middle of our chest for Mahalo. The company's founder, Jason Calacanis, also founded Weblogs, Inc and, having worked under his absolutely boundless energy, we can say first-hand that he's a force to be reckoned with. Apparently the New York times thinks so as well. The Sunday edition of the New York Times included this great article on the ...

When human-powered search engine Mahalo launched in alpha earlier this month, comparisons to Google Search were inevitable. In reality, Mahalo is to Google like pie is to brussels sprouts. They're both food, but pie is much more fun to eat. Mahalo is the brainchild of uber-entreprenuer Jason Calacanis (the founder of Weblogs, Inc. and, by extension, this blog) and could position itself to become ...

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 ...

Once upon a time in order to find information on a person you had to put in a lot of time and hard work. You had to ask around, snoop through garbage cans, use things like binoculars and stakeouts. Things sure have changed. Now all you need is an Internet connection and a name. Cybersnooping takes another leap forward next week when Spock -- a new search engine -- beta launches. Spock promises to ...

That sound you hear? It's the sound of a million webmasters shouting for joy. I certainly didn't see it coming, but Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google have entered an agreement to support a single, unified sitemap protocol, which webmasters can use to give all three companies' search engines a complete listing of their site's pages. Microsoft's Live Search Blog, the Yahoo! Search Blog, and Google's ...

Pluggd recently debuted their latest feature: HearHear technology, which allows you to search for content within podcasts. I know what you're thinking... don't PodZinger and Podscope do the same thing? Well, sort of. Pluggd purports to offer the same features as those services - and more. HearHear will find instances of a search term, and related terms. The result of your search will be a "heat ...

PodZinger is a search engine that lets you search for words and phrases within podcasts and videocasts. Yes, within the actual audio. And now there's a plug-in available that adds PodZinger to the Mozilla search toolbar. I installed the plug-in, and a-searchin' I went. PodZinger uses some speech-to-text magic that is far from perfect, but cool nonetheless. Most of the time, the "amber" it ...