Internet Search

Network Lawyers takes on Search Engines

By Tom Mighell on February 9, 2004

This week, the Network-Lawyers group is holding a seminar on search engines hosted by yours truly and my new friend Kathy Biehl. We are incredibly fortunate to have a fantastic panel of experts to discuss the topic: Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch, Tara Calashain from ResearchBuzz (as well as several…

Become a search hacker

By Tom Mighell on February 9, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Tired of the same old search engines? Think you can build a better search engine on your own? Now you’ve got help, with the new publicationSpidering Hacks. The book offers tips and tools for creating and running your own spiders, those software creatures that are used by search engines to discover web pages…

Brush up your Google

By Tom Mighell on February 5, 2004

Posted in Search Engines, Useful Web Sites

Need a refresher on using Google? Check out the Google Guide, which is maintained by Nancy Blachman, who is not affiliated with Google (but she’s a fan!). The guide offers tutorials on just about any feature of Google you’d care to use.

A look back at….January

By Tom Mighell on February 4, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

If you missed any search engine news this past month, Chris Sherman rounds it all up for you in the Search Engine Milestones for January 2004.

Goodies from Google

By Tom Mighell on February 3, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Mary Ellen Bates always has something interesting and useful to say — this time she’s saying it over at SearchDay, where she offers us someHidden Google Tools.

Power searching for the news

By Tom Mighell on January 29, 2004

Posted in Search Engines, Software

A few years ago RocketInfo used to be one of the only news search tools in town, until the company decided to concentrate on pursuing the corporate news search market. Since last year, RocketInfo has been back, offering products on a number of platforms. One tool that I have not tried is the RocketInfo Desktop,…

Better late than never

By Tom Mighell on January 27, 2004

Posted in Internet Search

Microsoft has finally issued a beta version of its search toolbar. It has all the features you have seen in other toolbars — a highlighter, quick links to other sites, a popup blocker, and more.

Google Results that come to you

By Tom Mighell on January 22, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

GoogleAlert has been around for awhile, but it’s still a tool worth mentioning, and Chris Sherman does so in today’s SearchDay. Just enter your search query, and GoogleAlert will e-mail you when web pages with those terms are added to Google’s database. It’s like a newsclipping service for web pages.

Or if you want…

How long has this been going on?

By Tom Mighell on January 6, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

In preparing for a presentation this weekend, I did a search on Google for a smartphone. At the top of the results were links from Frooglewith prices for the phone. Here’s an example for the Treo 600. Has Google been offering this feature long? It’s pretty cool.