Internet Search
More on Google site banning
Google excludes offensive sites
Who’s the freshest?
Search Engine Showdown has updated its Freshness Showdown, showing how recently the major search engines have refreshed their links. Unsurprisingly, Google, MSN, HotBot and AltaVista all have new pages as early as 1 day old. Beware of Wisenut and Teoma — the newest pages found on those sites are over 4-6 months
Lawsuit against Google
SearchKing, a search engine and web hosting service, is suing Google, and it’s just dying to tell you this; not only did it issue a press release on its website, it also posted the summons, complaint, and motion for preliminary injunction. The lawsuit it based on SearchKing’s placement of text…
Cool Google News Search Tip
If you haven’t used Google News yet, what are you waiting for? On the home page you can get the most recent headlines in various categories, and a link under each headline to a number of “related articles.” There’s another way to do this:
- When you find an article that’s right on point, copy the
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Tricks you might not know about your search engine
Gary Price of The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk(among other things) has an excellent article on features of specialized search engines AllTheWeb, Alta Vista, and Google.
Check out Copernic Agent
Copernic, a longtime maker of stand-alone Web search software, launched its Copernic Agent yesterday, offering features that will make your searches faster, more powerful, and much easier (or so they claim). Copernic Agent Basic is available as a free download.
A new Dogpile (it’s not what you think)
Google to charge? Say it ain’t so!
Google is considering charging for some of its services, including the fabulous newly re-launched Google News.
