Just got word that Yahoo Search has started integrating information from Del.icio.us into their search result pages. Yahoo aquired Del.icio.us some years ago and I was wondering since then when they would start to combine the two online services to offer their visitors additional information.

Wikia Search is the new project by Jimmy Wales who created Wikipedia. Instead of using an algorithmic approach it combines that approach with user feedback to provide everyone with better search results. The theory sounds nice, let users week out the spam and fake websites like Made for Adsense sites and websites with no content.

Rapidshare is a goldmine if you know how to search it properly. There are basically two ways to do that. First, you can use Google search parameters to search Rapidshare. Several websites offer a basic search interface that does nothing more than to add the parameters to your searches and display the Google search results. Then there is a different kind of website that has its own database and performs searches using it.

Deleted websites is probably not the right catchy phrase that I should use. What I mean is that it happens sometimes that you find a search result in Google or follow a link from another website only to find out that nothing is found. Sometimes the information that has been could be essential. Fortunately for us there is a way to display the contents for most “The Page cannot be displayed” websites.

Even if you do use Yahoo search regularly you might have missed the Yahoo Search Assist feature. To be honest, i had no desire to use Yahoo as a search engine until the recent actions of Google made me change my mind. Ankit, who recently commented on my blog wrote an interesting article about Yahoo Search Assist and I decided to give it a go.

Privacy should be a major concern for everyone on the Internet these days. You would be surprised what search engines such as Google know about you – well, not really about you unless you have a real name account with them and are logged in when performing searches.

Frequently Asked Questions are a good way of reducing support inquiries at business sites or for reducing the tenth post about a similar topic in a popular forum. FAQ’s are a great way of answering questions from users before they have been asked.The developers of Querycat decided to create a database of FAQ entries from all over the Internet and make it searchable at their homepage. They claim to have more than four million FAQ entries in their ever growing database.

Rapidshare is probably still the biggest file upload site on the internet. It is also one of the messiest and hard to work out sites that I came upon. There is no way to search for files hosted on Rapidshare.com itself. The only way that was known to me was to use a Google search exclusively for Rapidshare. (site:Rapidshare.com keywords) This is not an ideal situation, many links found by Google are already dead at Rapidshare and the overall process takes to much time.

Aol released private search queries of 500.000 AOL users to the public. Analysts and Journalists alike are having a busy time analysing the data for various reasons. I was able to identify three different motivations: 1. How big is the privacy breach, 2. Is it possible to identify someone from the queries and 3. analysing the queries from a marketing point of view.

AOL surely did not think about the immense backlash they would receive from the internet community when they released anonymised logs of 500,000 AOL users at the AOL research website. The file consisted of about 20.000.000 million web queries from about 500.000 AOL users in the course of three months (march to may 2006). The AOL username was replaced by a unique ID, everything else was kept unchanged in the logs.

Stalkerati is not your usual search engine that lets you search for long lost friends, relatives and the like. It instead tries to accumulate as much data about a person as possible and save that data in a neat profile on their website. It collects data from various sources including myspace, facebook, friendster, a web and blog search and finally a photo and image search.

Google Trends has been live for a few days and it´s time to play around with this new google service and find out what it´s all about. By entering one or more search terms you see a graph that shows the search volume and the news reference volume for about two years. This in itself isn´t that exciting but the feature to compare results by searching for multiple terms is. You could for instance compare linux distributions or windows, linux and macintosh.

I´ve written a short article about google suppressing search results in some countries which did not seem to bother the public opinion in those countries and elsewhere. Recent news about google china censoring search results on the other hand seem to create more public discussion. Should western companies bow to countries like china that have a different view of freedom of opinion.

Searchenginewatch published a rather large article about protecting your search privacy today. They provide a step-by-step guide how your search privacy gets exposed from your desktop to the sites you visit. They divided the article into six chapters beginning with Search Privacy On Your Own Computer and ending with a conclusion that gives you valuable tips on how to protect your search privacy.

Just stumbled over this blog a few minutes ago, the author claimed that erotic books could be found using googles new print service. Guess what, I decided to try it out for myself, here are the results.

We have seen all kind of google maps so far, some interesting, some not but this one could be interesting to some of you. If you are the type that likes to watch the Oscar and Emmy Awards for instance.
I found a celebrity map that shows where celebrities live on a google map. The site provides a large list of them, starting with Paula Abdul over Pamela Anderson to Elijah Wood and Billy Zane.

What have the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Parthenon in Athens and the Eiffel Tower in Paris in common ? The answer is, they all can be seen in excellent quality on google maps.

I found a site that lists some of the world famous buildings and sites with a direct link to google maps for your viewing pleasure. Take a look around, visit the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City and the Washington Monument in Washington DC.

Everyone probably knows Googles Video Service where you can search for videos and watch them online. Until know it was not easy to download a movie that you liked, that you probably would like to see again or show friends at home.

I´ve created a little search quiz about google that contains basic and advanced questions. If you are able to at least answer 15 questions correctly you pass the test.

Here is a updated large list of free upload sites that you can search for the latest files. You can use them to search for movies, images, packed files, mp3 files and more. Check out our posts about the file search possibilities first and then take a look at the upload sites.

This article describes how search engines work, how the data is processed, how search results are generated. It also describes most of the advanced search operators available today.

You can use the google.com website (and only this for now, the local ones are not showing the results) to find flights for a certain departing and returning time.
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Just a quick rapidshare trick to find valid files and less already deleted ones.

It seems google released another beta program to the public, this time its google catalogs. You can now search through mail order catalogs. Apparently google scanned the whole content of hundreds of those catalags and made every word on every page searchable.

Blinx is a new type of search engine that indexes tv, video and podcasts and converts the audio into searchable text. The creators claim that they are tracking over 15.000 video blogs and podcasts for their search engine.

Google, and probably most of the other search engines, supresses, on certain search terms, some or even all of the results of this search. The suppression might be a local one, affecting some countries or even all global searches for these terms.

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You can easily use the Google Search Engine (and others as well) to find gigabytes of Mp3s, Ebooks, Images and Movies that “normal” users will never find. In this series of articles that I will publish in the next days I will explain how to find Mp3 files, Ebooks, Videos, Images and finally how to hunt for Webcams.