This month’s Online Magazine has a great article from Greg Notess on Unusual Power Web Searching Commands, including using asterisks to enable proximity searching in Google (among other things).
Search Engines
The month in search engine news
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Posted in Search Engines
Just like clockwork, Chris Sherman provides his Search Engine Milestones for October 2003.
Too strong for its own good
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Posted in Search Engines, Software
The New York Times profiled the Google Toolbar yesterday, specifically discussing the utility’s pop-up blocker and its apparent super-strength. The article is right — the pop-up blocker is very strong, blocking nearly 100% of the popups I have encountered. In fact, the tracker tells me I have blocked 4,028 pop-ups since I installed the toolbar…
Google Goodies
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The October Pandia Post offers up some hidden features of Google, many of which you may already know about from reading this blog. They are still good to know.
Toss your Webster’s
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Posted in Search Engines
Well, not really. But Google’s glossary tool is a pretty cool alternative. Now the feature is available through the regular Google interface; just type “Define” and the word you’re looking for, and the definition will be the first result. For example, define synchronicity brings up one definition, and multiple search results, and define:synchronicity brings up …
Google chat
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Google founder Sergey Brin has been chatting up the search engine lately. He sat down at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in August for this fireside chat. This week, he and co-founder Larry Page were interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. You can find the interview on this page; just click on “Listen…
For the Google power user
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Tara Calashain discusses 20 Great Google Secrets over at PC Magazine. Many of these tips have been discussed right here with yours truly. They certainly are worth reviewing again.
Has Google gone bad?
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Maybe, says The Register. They’re calling it a “Google-NACK” (NACK = Negative ACKnowledgement), and it happens when Google tells you there are thousands of results for a search query, but fails to return those results. Seth Finkelstein argues that this is happening because ofproblems with Google’s anti-spam software. Greg Notess has this…
Copernic for your office
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Posted in Search Engines
Have you tried meta-search tool Copernic yet? It’s a terrific stand-alone product that queries thousands of search engine and compiles them in an easy-to-review format. Now the company is expanding its products, offering a search product for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
Making money through confusion
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In August of 2002, the FCC urged various search engines to more clearly indicate paid listings, or face possible action. A year later, although largely pleased with search engines’ attempts to disclose listings as “sponsored,” the agency is still concerned that consumers might still be confused about sponsored search results.