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Washington Post Reviews Desktop Search Tools
Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool from the Washington Post is a round-up of major desktop search apps. Google essentially comes out on top…
Bloglines Adds Package Tracking; More To Come
Bloglines has rolled out a new package tracking feature today that keeps you updated on the progress of items being shipped through FedEx, UPS…
Making Your Searches More Contextually Aware
Aware is a desktop search application that learns from context, automatically fine-tuning your search results and providing controls that allow you to influence the…
Save Yahoo Local Data in Spreadsheet Format
Here’s a new and potentially useful app (for Windows) that I just spotted on the Yahoo Developer Network Wiki. Do you want to work…
Nexidia’s Phonetic Search Technology
In some of our posts about multimedia searching we’ve mentioned a company called Nexidia that has developed phonetic search technology that they claim allows…
NetIQ To Spin Off WebTrends
NetIQ is selling its WebTrends web analytics division — which also is home to the WebPosition rank checking tool — to the division’s management…
On Yahoo’s Mojo & The Tiresome Need For Perspective
I’d largely agree with Om Malik’s idea that Yahoo is a sharper company that seen in the past, which he addresses in his How…
LookSmart Launches Five New Verticals
Search verticals are hot so LookSmart launched five new vertical sites today aimed at different user groups. Each offers access to FindArticles material along…
New Travel Search Engines Beat Old
Venerable Consumer Reports pits new travel search engines Kayak, Mobissimo and SideStep against the established brands of Orbits, Expedia and Travelocity and finds the…
Seeking Links in the Nooks and Crannies of the Web
We’ve been writing forever about vertical search, and we’re happy to see the topic start to get some mainstream attention. What isn’t getting much…
Answers.com Goes Mobile
Yes, I love my mobile search tools and once again news about a new service. Today, Answers.com has released a mobile interface for their…
Track Blogosphere Buzz with New and Improved BlogPulse 2.0
Those of you who track blogosphere buzz will be happy to learn the BlogPulse from Intelliseek has just released several enhancements.to the service. These…
Google’s Orkut Media Offers RSS Feeds
With the Yahoo 360 social networking site making its semi-public debut, I thought it would be interesting to log back into rival service Orkut,…
Yahoo 360 Community Site Opens, Sort Of
We’ve mentioned the Yahoo 360 social networking-blogging-photo sharing service before. Now the Yahoo Search Blog is telling the world about it officially: Yahoo! 360°…
Google To Acquire Urchin Web Analytics Firm
Google is to acquired the Urchin web analytics firm, which provides both hosted and log-based tools for understanding how people are interacting with web…
Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places?
In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the major search engines, web site owners miss a far more important audience that's…
Desktop Search, Google Enterprise, and the U.S. Goverment
A couple of interesting reads from Federal Computer Week. First, the article: The search is on, looks at the many obstacles desktop search tools…
NPR Looks at Online Advertising
A National Public Radio ran a story Morning Edition today on report about online and keyword advertising. You can listen to the 4 minute…
InfoSpace Plans to Launch New Mobile Search Engine
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that along with vertical engine, currently the “next” big thing, that mobile search/info retrieval is very rapidly becoming the next…
Ask Jeeves Still Plans to Expand European HQ in Ireland
A brief article in Ireland’s Sunday Business Post reports that despite the IAC acquisition, Ask Jeeves is still planning to expand their European HQ…