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Find more Office files, FAST
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
AllTheWeb now features the ability to search for Excel and PowerPoint files. To limit your search to these file types, use the syntax filetype:excel or filetype:powerpoint. (Via ResourceShelf)
New Names, Same Search over at HotBot
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
SearchDay reports that HotBot has renamed the engines it searches, apparently because of name recognition problems. It turns out users did not recognize the search engines Teoma, Inktomi, andFAST Search, but they do know about HotBot (powered by Inktomi), Lycos (powered by FAST), and AskJeeves (powered by Teoma). It’s all in
Give your searches a slug
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
Want to add a little fun to your searches? Check out BananaSlug, a site that uses Google APIs to add random words to your search query. Just enter your search terms, and then pick a category to “seed” your query with a random word — the categories include world cities, tarot cards, Shakespearean themes,…
In the interests of equal airtime…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Those of you who read this blawg regularly probably know that the folks over at Google Watch are no fans of Google. Here’s a link toWhy We Target Google, which neatly lays out all of the major arguments against the mega-search giant.
Get a second opinion
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Not happy with your search results? Now you can get a second opinion from Lycos. Just download the Lycos SideSearch, and you can view Lycos search results alongside those of other major search engines.
Now, if only LIBRARIES could do this…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search, Useful Web Sites
I know, I know…we’ll never be able to have the contents of entire libraries available online. Amazon, however, thinks full text will sell books, so it’s negotiating with book publishers to make searchable texts of nonfiction books available to its users.
Things that make you go hmmm….
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff, Internet Search
Found yesterday in the referrer logs for this website: internet lawyer nudist.
And in case you’re wondering — no, I’m not.
The Lowdown on Google News
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
The latest Google Friends newsletter features an interview with Krishna Barat of Google News. Check out the rest of this month’s issue, too.
Down with Long URLs!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search, Web and Online Culture
How often do you get an e-mail from a friend that contains a URL, and the address takes up more than one line? It’s a pain to get that cut and pasted into your web browser, and sometimes it just doesn’t work. That’s why it’s helpful to have a “URL-shortening” service on hand — these…