Sometimes when you’re searching, the site you’re looking for just isn’t available — either it’s down for repairs, Internet traffic is particularly heavy, or the site has ceased operations altogether. That’s where the Google cache comes in handy. You can view the most recent version of the page in a “snapshot” format that has been
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Viva Vivisimo!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Today’s SearchDay has a nice review of my favorite metasearch tool, Vivisimo. One of the great features of Vivisimo that I don’t mention often is the advanced search page, which allows you to select specific search engines or sites for your query. That way, you can focus your search on only a few sites,…
June’s search engine developments
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Greg Notess reports on new developments with the major search engine in June’s Search Engine Update.
The month in search engines
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
June was a busy month for the Internet’s various search engines, and Chris Sherman highlights the search engine milestones.
New metasearch from Pandia
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Fans of search guide Pandia Search Central will want to check out its new meta-search tool, Pandia PowerSearch.
More on the new Google toolbar
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
SearchDay continues its search toolbar series by reviewing the new features of Google Toolbar V. 2.0.
Microsoft seeks to compete
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Posted in Search Engines
Microsoft has launched software that will index web sites, called MSNBot. It is expected that Microsoft is making a move to compete directly with Google in the search industry.
The toolbars…the toolbars!!!!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
There’s a lot of buzz this week about search engine toolbars, most of it coming from Search Engine Watch. Monday’s SearchDay reported on the Dogpile Toolbar, which allows you to easily access the Dogpile metasearch tool from your browser window. On Tuesday, Chris reported on the new HotBot Quick Search Deskbar which, among…
So THAT explains it
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff, Search Engines
Ever wonder how Google’s results are so frighteningly accurate? Wonder no more — it’s all due to Google’s patented PigeonRank process.
More pictures than you can shake a stick at
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
AltaVista announced last week that it now has the largest index of multimedia on the Web, including image files, audio, and video. Itsimage search engine contains over 540 million images — you can search for photos, graphics, or banners/buttons, and you can even limit your search to black and white or color, or…