This title couldn’t be more accurate — Google Everywhere. In this article, Tara Calishain offers ways to get Google results without actually going to Google.
Internet Search
When Cheating is Good For You
Most search engines provide you with the ability to “power search” by using special syntax. Trouble is, this syntax isn’t always easy to figure out. Google’s helping out with that, by providing this handy cheat sheet with helpful syntax, shortcuts, and more.
Google now searches your PC
It’s almost as if this were a major presidential election story, with all the press it got yesterday: Google has launched a desktop search tool. Once you set up the software download, it indexes your computer for certain types of files, including e-mail, .TXT, HTML, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, AOL instant messages, and…
IceRocket Gets Blogs
Mark Cuban’s search baby IceRocket now features blog searching.
Yahoo Local — Final Version
Yahoo’s Local Search is out of beta testing, and Chris Sherman has a comprehensive review. In my opinion, this is the local search to beat.
Yahoo gets personal
In recent posts I have mentioned A9 and changes to Ask Jeeves, allowing users to save or otherwise personalize their search results. Now Yahoo gets into the act with My Yahoo! Search. The results pages allow you to save sites (with or without notes), share them, or block them from your computer. As…
The next generation of Vivisimo
Newsbot Bias
If Google News were a person, would he/she be a Republican? That’s the question J.D. Lasica asks in Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories. One of the issues seems to be that of depth vs. editorial selection, a point raised by Chris Sherman in Is Google News Biased? I…
A new look for Jeeves
Ask Jeeves has unveiled some new and interesting features this week. First is the ability to save specific search results to an online folder, which will hold 1,000 search listings (more if you register, for free). You can also organize, annotate, and share the sites you save.
9/29 Update: Gary Price has a lengthy …