GoogleAlert has been around for awhile, but it’s still a tool worth mentioning, and Chris Sherman does so in today’s SearchDay. Just enter your search query, and GoogleAlert will e-mail you when web pages with those terms are added to Google’s database. It’s like a newsclipping service for web pages.
Or if you want…
Thinking of using one of the many toolbars now available from most of the major search sites? Read Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? first.
Business Week notes in Google Here, There and Everywhere that the search engine is becoming a rival to just about every company on the Net.
Google has introduced yet another new feature this week — it’s Google Print, which indexes excerpts of books, and includes them in search results. It’s different from Amazon’s Search Inside the Book feature, which shows you actual pages from the book. Google’s new option only shows a brief excerpt from the book, usually…
They come up with something new at Google every day, don’t they? Now, it’s airport conditions. Just type in an airport code and the word “airport” — for example, dfw airport — and the first result is a link to current conditions at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (ViaInternet News)
No, it’s not Return of the King (although it comes close — I can’t wait to see it!). Instead, it’s the war over search engine supremacy, according to Time Magazine.
Google has updated its shopping tool, Froogle. If you still haven’t started your holiday shopping, this might be a good place to start.
Not a law-related weblog, but Daniel Bazac has been publishing the Bazac Weblog since July. Daniel discusses search engines, search engine optimization, meta-search, and much more. If you recall, Daniel wrote the terrific piece a few weeks ago on how to search the Web more efficiently.
Meta-search tools went through a hard time during Google’s ascendance to the top of the search engine heap. But they have learned, their lessons, and they are ready to be useful to you again.
