Froogle, the great shopping search feature of Google, is now available from your cell phone. Just point your phone’s browser tohttp://wml.froogle.com, and you can check out the lowest prices while you’re out shopping.
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Google by the numbers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
In 9,000 Google hits can’t be wrong – or can they?, the author discusses how news journalists often use Google results to make generalized statements about society. An example: a search for “naked men” brings 601,000 results from Google, while “naked women”yields 1,050,000 results. Ergo, the female body must be more desirable…
Overdose on Google Information
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Wired has a huge report on Googlemania — the upcoming IPO, threats from other search engines, and much, much more. Give it a read.
Oh yeah? Take that!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
The search engine wars are always a game of one-upsmanship. Last week Yahoo! announces its new search engine, and Google just couldn’t stand being left out. So it announced that the search engine now provides access to more than six billion items. Now before you get all excited, that number isn’t just web…
Yahoo Searches for RSS
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in RSS, Search Engines
The new Yahoo! offers a great new feature — the search results contain links to RSS feeds. Here’s an example for the Instapundit weblog and the New York Times. Way cool.
Power Searching with Soople
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Yahoo!’s new search engine
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
As widely reported, Yahoo! dumped Google as its search engine this week, replacing it with its own new search engine. It’s just the beginning for Yahoo!; they plan on rolling out more features over the next few months.
Search Engine Loyalty?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
With Yahoo! unveiling its new search engine this week, CNet thinks the search wars are about to get personal. The article discusses the fact that people are generally not loyal to one search engine, and how the major players are maneuvering to secure that loyalty; one of the people quoted says, “Everyone thinks there’s…
Stuff I’ve Seen and other ways of remembering Favorites
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
The people at Keeping Found Things Found are very interested in your surfing habits. It turns out that many users of the Internet don’t bother to keep track of or otherwise organize the sites they find. Instead, they e-mail it to themselves, or write it on a Post-It note. The KFTF project wants to find …
The future of search?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
The folks over at Yahoo! want to pioneer the next online revolution, and the next, and the next. Even better, they’re letting us watch over their shoulder while they do it. Yahoo! Research Labs is working on several interesting projects, including Open Source Search, Cluster Graphing, and Concept Discovery.
Not that we’d understand what we…