The search engine wars are always a game of one-upsmanship. Last week Yahoo! announces its new search engine, and Google just couldn’t stand being left out. So it announced that the search engine now provides access to more than six billion items. Now before you get all excited, that number isn’t just web
Yahoo Searches for RSS
The new Yahoo! offers a great new feature — the search results contain links to RSS feeds. Here’s an example for the Instapundit weblog and the New York Times. Way cool.
Power Searching with Soople
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Yahoo!’s new search engine
As widely reported, Yahoo! dumped Google as its search engine this week, replacing it with its own new search engine. It’s just the beginning for Yahoo!; they plan on rolling out more features over the next few months.
Blawgs of the Day
- Douglas Sorocco, an intellectual property attorney with Dunlap, Codding & Rogers, has been publishing PHOSITA since January. An intellectual property weblog, PHOSITA stands for “Person Having Ordinary Skill In The Art.”
- Promote the Progress is written by J. Matthew Buchanan, a patent attorney who is focusing on patent procurement, use, management, and other patent-related
The FTC and identity theft
Learn to protect yourself against identity theft and get other helpful information on the subject at the FTC’s new site, ID Theft.
Search Engine Loyalty?
With Yahoo! unveiling its new search engine this week, CNet thinks the search wars are about to get personal. The article discusses the fact that people are generally not loyal to one search engine, and how the major players are maneuvering to secure that loyalty; one of the people quoted says, “Everyone thinks there’s…
News Topix of your choice
Topix is a news site that searches 3,500 sources to organize news into an eye-popping 150,000 topics. What I like about it is its Local News feature — just select a town, and Topix will display a page that aggregates headlines from various sources in your area. Best of all, you can then subscribe to…
Stop spyware in its tracks
PC Magazine’s most recent issue reviews several anti-spyware programs in Spy Stoppers. Their Editor’s Choice is Spy Sweeper, a program I’m currently testing on my PC. I have long been a big fan of SpyBot Search & Destroy, which comes in 2nd place in the PC Magazine article (one thing that makes…
