If you missed any search engine news during the month of March, you can catch up at Search Engine Watch with the Search Engine Milestones for March 2004.
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Yahoo doing just fine, thank you
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Ditching Google as its search engine hasn’t appeared to cost Yahoo! any searchers. I guess that leads me to ask: did anyone even notice the change?
New search limiter from Google
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Google is now offering a new number range limiter, so you can specify results that contain numbers within a certain range. For example, if you want to check out DVD players in the $250-$350 range, you would type dvd player $250..$350. That’s the idea, anyway. I ran that search and received results both above…
It’s about time
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
This story is a bit old, but welcome news nonetheless: Google has finally updated its web directory, which has long been out of date.
HotBot’s New Toolbar
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
The new HotBot Toolbar has all of the usual features of a search toolbar: pop-up blocker, highlighter, search engine, etc. It also allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, and it has the ability to search your computer files, e-mail, RSS, and browser history.
4/27 Update: Chris Sherman wrote a nice review of the…
More on GMail
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email, Search Engines
As Google moves to respond to privacy concerns over its new GMail service, the Register is convinced that Google’s newest featurecompletes the invasion of our privacy.
ClusterMed out of beta
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Vivisimo’s clustering tool for PubMed, ClusterMed, is out of beta and open for business. The service allows you to search PubMed using Vivisimo’s great clustering technology. (thanks to Gary Price for the pointer)
Just like Hearst v. Pulitzer….
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Yahoo! News has upgraded its search engine, now allowing you to search over 7,000 news sources in 35 languages. That certainly beatsGoogle News’ paltry 4,500 sources. SearchDay has the scoop.
Hey, have you met the guy who just Googled himself?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
In The Perils of Googling, the author demonstrates how fiendishly easy it is to find sensitive information on the Internet using our favorite search engine.
New Stuff from Google
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines