Dogpile Updates its Toolbar

By Tom Mighell on October 13, 2003

Meta-search tool Dogpile has updated its Toolbar add-on to include some interesting new features. You can now see ABC News headlines streaming across the toolbar, and use the toolbar to block pop-up ads. If somebody’s using it, let me know how the pop-up blocker works — I’m interested to know if it’s as good

Old stuff on film, for free

By Tom Mighell on October 13, 2003

Posted in Useful Web Sites

British Pathe, a media company with over 3,500 hours of filmed history in its archives, offers free access to its archives of over 12 million still photos.

This week’s issue of…

By Tom Mighell on October 12, 2003

Posted in Mighell Marker

…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available, featuring:

Spam enablers

By Tom Mighell on October 10, 2003

Posted in Email

Anti-spammers traditionally use tools like traceroute and whois to locate the IP address of the computer spammers are using. Now some hackers are helping the spammers — by developing “invisible bulletproof hosting” that protects a network from such sleuthing tools.

Put Google on YOUR Weblog

By Tom Mighell on October 10, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

I’m so behind on some of these stories….

Chris Sherman over at SearchDay discusses using Google to allow your weblog users to search the Web, your weblog, or other weblogs that you read.

Detod Comes on Strong

By Tom Mighell on October 9, 2003

Posted in Useful Web Sites

I have been remiss in not reporting this sooner, but Chad Williamson over at Detod.com is going great gangbusters with his new features. You can search using GigaBlast, Open Directory Project, and you can also search for blogs and blawgs. This place is becoming a real portal, with links to news, weather, blawgs,…

Another privacy problem for Google?

By Tom Mighell on October 9, 2003

Posted in Privacy

A few weeks ago, I reported that Google was introducing a new feature that would track the number of times you use the search engine each day. Now the New York Times reports on Google’s counter, and asks some valid questions: do people know they are being tracked, and what type of information is…

Search engines and punctuation

By Tom Mighell on October 8, 2003

Posted in Search Engines

Greg Notess over at Search Engine Showdown has a brief discussion about how Google treats punctuation differently from other search engines.

Halloween Site of the Day

By Tom Mighell on October 7, 2003

Posted in Fun Stuff

Now that the stores are jam-packed with bags of candy, costumes, and other indicia of the season, it’s time to start preparing for Halloween. Today’s site is for hard-core Halloween lovers. Extreme Pumpkins turns the quaint notion of pumpkin carving on its head. This site is not for the Halloween traditionalist.