But another, really cool, option for finding RSS feeds is a tool called Kebberfegg, developed by web search maven Tara Calishain. That could include not only blogs but company web sites' press release pages, government web sites' news and contract...
Overall, Calishain is positive about the service and says she looks forward to seeing it evolve. A quick post to point out Tara's recent item (when Tara writes, we read) about ScoopGo, a new tool that allows the user to create a searchable database...
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Our friend and fellow Web Search University faculty member, Tara Calishain, has release yet another new RSS tool named Kebberfegg (Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator) (now that's a name for you) that makes it quick and easy to create and then...
Tara Calishain wants much more offered, and faster. The Google Blog gives you Google's own take on the personal page, touching on how it's part of Google's "fusion" initiative (please, couldn't they have called it Fusion) to merge Google features...
Just like Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest's terrific Google Hacks, Firefox Hacks is loaded with dozens of tips and techniques that you can apply right away. Spider the web with Firefox. Some of the hacks focus on designing and troubleshooting CSS...
On Web Directories: Covers ResearchBuzz's Tara Calishain decrying the loss of directories last November and Gary Price adding that even if Google and Yahoo are backing off, other directories are still out there.
Google Hacks, 2nd Edition By Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest ISBN: 0-596-00857-0 352 pages, $24.95 To keep the book fresh, co-authors Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest have released a second edition of Google Hacks.
Best Publication On Searching: Web Search Garage, by Tara Calishain Previously, Gary mentioned Search Engine Watch was honored with two awards in the Pandia Search Engine Awards 2004. Here's a rundown on all the winners in each category:
Tara Calishain talked about it in her excellent Going back to her book (page 22, if you've got it), Tara talks about how repeating a word more than once both lowers the count and also changes the order of the search.
Tara Calishain at ResearchBuzz and Philipp Lenssen on Google Blogoscoped have posted that the maximum number of terms allowed in a search query is now 32. Many of the other large general purpose web engines (Yahoo, Jeeves, MSN) don't place limits...
Tara Calishain has put together a short link rundown on how various search engines have responded to the tragic tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean: Search Engine/Blogosphere Response to the Earthquake/Tsunami.
Tara Calishain has put together a short link rundown on how various search engines have responded to the tragic tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean: Search Engine/Blogosphere Response to the Earthquake/Tsunami.
ResearchBuzz (aka Tara Calishain) writes about how Yahoo has downplayed their human built directory of web sites in the past few years. Tara is correct, they have. She goes into some depth on what Google might be up to: "Google has demonstrated new...
ResearchBuzz (aka Tara Calishain) writes about how Yahoo has downplayed their human built directory of web sites in the past few years. Tara is correct, they have. The Web needs, I strongly believe, a good searchable subject index.
Tara Calishain did this recently to Yahoo and found Yahoo actually picking up some pages to a depth of 800K. Visit our forum thread: It's Official: Google Now Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages. That would have put it above the 4.2 billion mark
Tara Calishain rates in my book as one of the world's foremost Super Searchers. Tara's ResearchBuzz is on my short list of must-visit web sites each day. She's also the co-author of Google Hacks, and now she's distilled her knowledge and skills...
Every now and then a book comes along that's a must-read for every serious searcher, and Tara Calishain's Web Search Garage falls squarely into that category. I'm not given to hyperbole, but it's no exaggeration for me to call Tara Calishain one of...
Nice from Tara Calishain: Searchroller For Yahoo. Download (semantic web browser, an early release) here. Web Feeds, Blogs Google's Ban Has Holes. An interesting AP story: Experts: Web searches for sex declining, e-commerce increasing that reports...
