Check out Greg Notess’s Internet Search Engine Update to catch up on what’s been happening the past few months in the search engine world.
Search Engines
New tool for science searchers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
If you find yourself constantly searching for scientific, technical, or medical information on the Internet, check out the Scirus Toolbar. Once installed, the toolbar becomes a part of your browser, allowing you to easily search science-related websites using the terrific Sciruswebsite. (Via Resource Shelf)
Makeover for another search engine
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Ask Jeeves introduced several new features, yesterday, and Chris Sherman advises us to take a look.
Google Filter: par for the course
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Harvard’s Benjamin Edelman has a report on Google’s SafeSearch feature, which is intended to omit references to sites with pornography and explicit sexual content. Problem is, like many Internet filters, it also keeps out a lot of valuable information.
When you’re #1, everyone’s gunning for you…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
First it was Microsoft, now Yahoo! The company is rolling out a souped-up search engine today, in an attempt to dethrone the current search champion.
Are press releases news?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Google News seems to think so — the news search engine has started listing press releases in its search results. The Register is not happy about it.
Let the games begin
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Microsoft admits it is gearing up to compete with Google.
Do your part for LookSmart
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Search engine LookSmart wants to use your computer to index the Web. Through its new service Grub, LookSmart will provide your PC with a screensaver that crawls the Internet when the computer is idle. The search engine hopes this type of distributed computing will greatly improve the freshness of its index.
Toss your phone book — use Google instead
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
This past week a lot of people, including Burgess Allison at TechShow and Glenn Garnes, have mentioned Google’s ability to find phone numbers and addresses. This feature has been around for some time at Google, and I’m surprised it’s just now making the rounds.
For those of you who don’t know how it works,…
Google = Big Brother?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Privacy, Search Engines
Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Watch also has a nice article on Google, Yahoo, and privacy concerns. Those of you who use Google on a regular basis know that the search engine uses the PageRank technology to rank the popularity of web pages. Whenever you visit a website through Google search results, you…