Search Engines

More on GMail

By Tom Mighell on April 5, 2004

As Google moves to respond to privacy concerns over its new GMail service, the Register is convinced that Google’s newest featurecompletes the invasion of our privacy.

ClusterMed out of beta

By Tom Mighell on April 2, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Vivisimo’s clustering tool for PubMed, ClusterMed, is out of beta and open for business. The service allows you to search PubMed using Vivisimo’s great clustering technology. (thanks to Gary Price for the pointer)

Just like Hearst v. Pulitzer….

By Tom Mighell on April 1, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Yahoo! News has upgraded its search engine, now allowing you to search over 7,000 news sources in 35 languages. That certainly beatsGoogle News’ paltry 4,500 sources. SearchDay has the scoop.

Hey, have you met the guy who just Googled himself?

By Tom Mighell on March 31, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

In The Perils of Googling, the author demonstrates how fiendishly easy it is to find sensitive information on the Internet using our favorite search engine.

New Stuff from Google

By Tom Mighell on March 30, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

How long will Google and Yahoo continue this game of one-upsmanship? I don’t care, as long as we keep getting new search tools.

First is the new layout. Google ditched the tabs view, added a link to its Froogle shopping search engine, plus a More… link. Pretty basic stuff, but the new layout is…

Google local — ready for prime time

By Tom Mighell on March 17, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

After 8 months of testing, Google will unveil Google Local today, to help you find businesses and other items in your area. A search forbowling alley dallas texas gave me a listing of about seven bowling alleys in the area. You can also expand your search to within 45 miles of the original…

What? There’s more than Google?

By Tom Mighell on March 17, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Yep, it’s true. In Beyond Google PC World lists a number of great specialized data resources that can focus your research faster than a Google search.

Paying for all those new features

By Tom Mighell on March 15, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Since its break with Google a few weeks ago, Yahoo! has launched some really great features. At least one person is noticing that these new changes also brings a heavier reliance on advertising. Does it affect the relevancy of search results?

Yahoo to charge for inclusion

By Tom Mighell on March 4, 2004

Posted in Search Engines

Ever since Yahoo! divorced its search engine from Google a few weeks ago, the changes have been coming fast and furious. Now comes word that Yahoo will charge companies to make sure their websites are included in its Web index.