Pandia Search Central offers this short and easy search engine tutorial — it’s a nice run-down of search tips for the new researcher, and a good refresher course for the rest of us.
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Top 10 Myth-takes in thinking about Google
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SitePoint provides a nice article on the Top 10 Google Myths — most of it is heavy on Google’s PageRank feature.
Yahoo! to purchase Inktomi
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Very interesting……Yahoo! will purchase search engine specialist Inktomi for $237 million. I guess Yahoo! doesn’t want to play with Google anymore…
HotBot makes a comeback
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HotBot, a search engine that doesn’t get much play on this website, relaunched this week, this time with the power searcher in mind. It’s essentially a front-end for FAST Search, Google, Inktomi, and Teoma, and it allows you to quickly compare search results between those four engines. You also have access to the Advanced…
Just in time for Christmas
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Have you finished your holiday shopping yet? If not, maybe Froogle can help. Yep, it’s another service from Google, and it purports to offer “All the World’s Products in One Place.” I searched for the Garmin V GPS system I have been craving, and it found a price way less than I had previously
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Today’s Google Trifecta
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Google Labs is at it again. First up is the Google Viewer — this is Google’s version of the Preview function found in other search engines. When your search results appear, they immediately begin cycling as part of a slide show; you can set the speed yourself. Next is Google Webquotes. Just plug in your…
Google as a business builder
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I don’t know where this little ole weblog would be if it weren’t for Google. Just go to the site, type in “Inter Alia,” and my site comes up first (I get a lot of traffic from people wanting a definition of the term). But if Google didn’t exist, I probably would get a
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AllTheWeb adds Word Search
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Check out the Advanced Search page of AllTheWeb sometime. You’ll find all sorts of goodies, and ways to restrict your search to particular file types. AllTheWeb now allows you to limit your search to Word .doc documents.
Who Owns the Alphabet?
By Tom Mighell on
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This interesting page features a listing of the websites that rank #1 when you go to Google and type in a particular letter of the alphabet. For example, type in “I” and you’ll get Disney Online, while “Q” brings up Q4Music, an online music magazine. Interesting.
The collective consciousness of the world?
By Tom Mighell on
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It must be pretty cool to work as a receptionist at Google. In the lobby, there’s a display called Live Query that provides constantly updated samples — in 86 languages, mind you — of what people around the world are typing into Google’s search engine.