Shopping Search, Via Mobile Phone
Many popular shopping sites offer mobile versions of their search tools, which can be especially useful for those always on the go.
Many popular shopping sites offer mobile versions of their search tools, which can be especially useful for those always on the go.
Any time you play an audio CD and your computer's music player automatically looks up information about the album, it's likely you've just used Gracenote, a huge online database of audio information.
The time has come for me to say goodbye to Danny, Chris, and the rest of the SEW team. The good news is that I will not be going very far and what have become known to many of you as "Gary's other sites" (ResourceShelf and DocuTicker) will...
It's great to see that Answers.com, a "ready reference" service with a growing database of factual information from a wide variety of sources continues to add new content and sources to their database on a very regular basis. Several new...
We've noticed that the publicly announced total size of permanently archived web pages found in The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has increased in size 15 billion pages today from 40 billion pages to 55 billion archived web pages (versus a...
A quick note to point out that "feed" search engine, Feedster, has undergone a makeover. Much cleaner and easier to read home page with a splash of color. The same look and color is also visible on search results pages. The Feedster blog has more...
Searchblog reports that Udi Manber, formerly the person in charge at A9 (Amazon.com's search site) is heading to the Googleplex where he'll now work. No word on what Manber's title will be at Google. Amazon/A9 is replacing Manber with Dr. David...
Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, about Google Book Search or to be more specific Google's Library Program. The full text of the speech is here (thanks John). I...
Throughout 2005 one of the most impressive new, general purpose, web engines was Exalead from France. Several of our posts are linked at the conclusion of this article. Exalead offers numerous advanced search features (including a user controlled...
A brief article on News.com.au titled: News Corp won't take on Google, reports that Mr. Murdoch and crew does not plan to get directly involved in the web search business taking on Google and Yahoo. These comments came in an interview that Rupert...
Battelle over at Searchblog reports that two sources have told him that Lycos may have let most of its search team go and will keep just a skeleton crew in place to run the service. For the search historians out there, the Lycos crawling...
Mylene Mangalindan's article in the Wall Street Journal (free to all): PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google takes a look at how online payment service, PayPal is preparing it's forces and resources against Google's plans to make a play in...
We've been posting about several new R&D centers from Yahoo and Google in the past few week's and today we've learned that Ask Jeeves has opened an R&D center in Pisa, Italy. From the announcement, The research center will serve as Ask...
A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes lets you search each and every word spoken during TV news broadcasts from well-known news organizations.
Om Malik reports that Google, Skype, and others have invested in FON, a wireless services startup. FON describes itself this way: FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and enjoy WiFi...
Via Scobleizer, a very interesting interview by Don Dodge (ex AltaVista now at MS) with the founder of Memeorandum, Gabe Rivera. From the Interview: Don Dodge: How do you compare Memeorandum to Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, and others? Gabe...
Nathan over at InsideGoogle mentions a post by Devin Reams who points to a portion of the Google Firefox Send to Phone FAQ: FAQ that says, "we [Google] might also log the text of the message you send, in order to investigate and correct technical...
How about creating a Google Earth game that's also a marketing tool? Sounds like a smart idea to me and it's precisely what Fiat has done. According to Adverblog, (via a link on InsideGoogle) Fiat and Google have partnered to offer this contest...
Declan McCullagh writes that the court hearing orginally scheduled for February 27th to determine if Google will have to turn over search records to the U.S. Department of Justice has been postponed for two weeks and will now take place on March...
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has positive comments about two services, PubSub and Rollyo, two services that we've posted about several times. Rollyo Sure, a power searcher could use advanced syntax and create a complex search string...
