Hello, and welcome to the Friday Tech Fix for June 5! My original goal has been to cover what I think are the “biggest” technology stories of the week, and why lawyers should care about them. But we are currently living in extraordinary times, and big technology news has been taking a backseat to, well…..more
I have no idea who MrSapo is, but he/she/they have an interesting search interface. As Tara Calishain puts it, it’s not exactly a meta-search engine — more like a “meta-interface” site. But it’s pretty cool — you can run your search on multiple engines all in the same window. You can even run different
Chris Sherman posted his Search Resolutions for the New Year over at SearchDay, and he’s got some good stuff. Interestingly, though, when he resolves to “Break the Google Toolbar Habit,” he doesn’t plan to wander far from it. What he really means is to stop using Internet Explorer, the only platform for which Google Toolbar
If you want to add an extra dimension to your search experience, download and try the Yahoo! Toolbar, which now offers access to the two million library records of WorldCat, a central catalog of library holdings.
It’s always a game of one-upsmanship in the search engine world. The same day the new MSN Search debuts featuring 5 billion pages, Google announces that its index now contains a whopping eight billion pages.
After what seems like years of tweaking and refining, Microsoft finally released a beta version of its search tool, which now relies on its own Web crawlers to provide the over 5 billion pages it indexes. The interface is much cleaner (a la Google), and there are some interesting new features:
This title couldn’t be more accurate — Google Everywhere. In this article, Tara Calishain offers ways to get Google results without actually going to Google.
Most search engines provide you with the ability to “power search” by using special syntax. Trouble is, this syntax isn’t always easy to figure out. Google’s helping out with that, by providing this handy cheat sheet with helpful syntax, shortcuts, and more.
It’s almost as if this were a major presidential election story, with all the press it got yesterday: Google has launched a desktop search tool. Once you set up the software download, it indexes your computer for certain types of files, including e-mail, .TXT, HTML, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, AOL instant messages, and
Mark Cuban’s search baby IceRocket now features blog searching.
