http://searchenginewatch.com/ Latest News - Phil Bradley en-us http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Sat, 26 May 2012 02:00:26 GMT http://ukn.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/rss-powered-by.png http://www.ultraknowledge.com/ http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057292/Google-Book-Search-Catches-Victorian-Plagiarists We tend to assume that plagiarism is a reasonably modern day phenomena but a fascinating article from Paul Collins "Dead Plagiarists Society" illustrates that is not always the case. In fact it would appear that Victorian authors stole work from e... Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:46:30 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057292/Google-Book-Search-Catches-Victorian-Plagiarists Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057329/PCNames-Domain-Search The PCNames domain search engine does exactly what might be expected of it - it searches for domain names and returns results with details on their availability. It does this virtually instantaneously as well - when you being typing the engine off... Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:29:28 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057329/PCNames-Domain-Search Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057340/AskTheLocal-UK-Shopping-Search-Engine AskTheLocal is a shopping search engine with a subtle difference; rather than find websites that offer particular products it matches the search query with a postcode to enable shoppers to visit a shop in person to buy the product. Another importa... Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:40:46 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057340/AskTheLocal-UK-Shopping-Search-Engine Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057372/Collarity-Relevance-Engine Collarity is a social search engine that combines a variety of different types of functionality to produce results in a new and interesting way. The basic concept is very straightforward, and is something that we've seen before - searchers begin t... Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:15:01 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057372/Collarity-Relevance-Engine Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057404/See-And-Find-With-Quintura Quintura is the latest in the line of visual search engines such as Kartoo, Mooter and WebBrain. Quintura basically takes your search term, runs a search and then translates the results into a tag cloud effect on the screen. Users can then simply ... Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:39:32 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057404/See-And-Find-With-Quintura Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057446/Google-Reader-Bug-Swatting Quick post from the Official Google Reader Blog - they've swatted some bugs in the product. On the most part, these are those small, but very irritating bugs that make a utility less enjoyable to use. It's a real miscellany as you'd expect, but in... Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:08:07 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057446/Google-Reader-Bug-Swatting Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057476/Googling-Google-And-Searching-Yahoo There is a strange feeling of deja vue with the Official Google blog entry 'Do you "Google"?' as we're once again looking at the way in which the word can be used. This last arose back in August over the apparent mis-use of the term by the Washing... Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:11:53 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057476/Googling-Google-And-Searching-Yahoo Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057510/WebFetchPro-UK-Metasearch WebFetch Pro is a multi/meta search engine creted by InfoSpace and it promises to give you the 'best search results available on the Web'. It attempts to do this by combining the results of the leading search engines (such as Google, Yahoo, Ask MS... Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:23:36 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057510/WebFetchPro-UK-Metasearch Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057533/ResultR-One-Search-Many-Useful-Results ResultR is an interesting new search engine for a number of different reasons. However, the basics first - it's a multi/meta search engine which pulls in results from a variety of other search engines which it displays grouped by engine, rather th... Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:26:13 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057533/ResultR-One-Search-Many-Useful-Results Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057589/Url.com-Results-Ranked-By-Users The ability to rank or rate results delivered by search engines is slowly becoming more commonplace, and I'm noticing that one or two multi/meta search engines are either incorporating this functionality into search or indeed making a specific fea... Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:47:46 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057589/Url.com-Results-Ranked-By-Users Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057641/Clusty-Labs-Clusty-Cloud-Creator Given that Clusty has just had a birthday they're celebrating by introducing the Clusty Labs. If you're familiar with Google Labs you'll know exactly where they're going with this. There's not a great deal there are the moment however; a one stop ... Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:33:27 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057641/Clusty-Labs-Clusty-Cloud-Creator Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057663/Need-A-Costume-For-Halloween-Try-The-CostumeZee-Costume-Search-Engine This is an entirely commercial operation, but with Halloween looming on the horizon, one that may prove useful. CostumeZee is a search engine that enables searchers to locate costumes for particular events, such as Halloween, or themes such as Pir... Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:11:06 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057663/Need-A-Costume-For-Halloween-Try-The-CostumeZee-Costume-Search-Engine Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057666/The-Accent-Is-On-Search An interesting article in Pandia about an overlooked area of search - Searching Google for words with accents. The bottom line is that it's difficult and fiddly to do it, and it depends on a number of different factors that the searcher cannot con... Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:53:52 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057666/The-Accent-Is-On-Search Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057672/Yotophoto-For-Finding-Free-Photos-Fast Yotophoto is a fast and easy to use image search engine. There are plenty of image search engines available of course, but that's no reason why there shouldn't be one more. The focus of Yotophoto however is on making 'open and copyleft' images ava... Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:42:58 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057672/Yotophoto-For-Finding-Free-Photos-Fast Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064945/Your-Search-Your-Way-Part-Two Today, we continue our look at personalized search services, focusing in depth on offerings from Yahoo and Eurekster. Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064945/Your-Search-Your-Way-Part-Two Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067590/Your-Search-Your-Way A new generation of search services goes beyond simple personalization, and lets you customize both your search topics and how results are presented. Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:08:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067590/Your-Search-Your-Way Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057788/Shakespeare-Searched-By-Clusty If it's September it must be Shakespeare. Clusty has released Shakespeare Searched which is designed to provide quick access to the works of the Bard. It's not designed as a replacement for, or access to the full text of his work, but as a quick r... Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:37:21 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057788/Shakespeare-Searched-By-Clusty Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057796/Google-Interesting-Items-Module-Recommend-Searches-Pages-Gadgets Google has added an Interesting items for you module to the personalized home page interface as noted in the Google Operating System blog. Google works with your own searches and attempts to find other things that will be of interest to you. The m... Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:14:07 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057796/Google-Interesting-Items-Module-Recommend-Searches-Pages-Gadgets Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057851/Flickr-1-Photography-Site-In-UK Hitwise is reporting that Flickr is the #1 photography site in the UK. This isn't really a surprise at all - what's more suprising is that it's taken a while to get there, and how it's got there. Flickr's UK market share has increased 39%, Pho... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:43:42 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057851/Flickr-1-Photography-Site-In-UK Phil Bradley http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057865/Over-1.2-Million-Flickr-Photos-Tagged-In-24-Hours Flickr geotagging has clearly taken off in a big way, with the FlickrBlog reporting that 1,234,384 photographs were geotagged in the first 24 hours of the service launching, with another 400,000 9 hours later. In general the service has been very ... Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:02:24 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057865/Over-1.2-Million-Flickr-Photos-Tagged-In-24-Hours Phil Bradley