Microsoft just made a 100 million acquisition of semantic search engine Powerset in its bit to improve existing Internet Searching Technologies for its Live Search. I use Live Search regularly and would say the results are now very comparable to Google and in the case of Image Search much better organised.
Better search is always good, [...]

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I’ve been a user of FeedDemon RSS reader ever since it became freeware. It’s a fantastic application and has a lot of great features, not the least being synchronization between NewGator Online and multiple devices such as Mobile phones and desktops.
However good as NewsGator Online is, after a while I began wishing FeedDemon synchronized with [...]

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There are two blog searching engines which dominate the market… Google Blog Search and of course, Technorati.
The biggest challenge both search engines face is trying to keep their indexes spam-free and provide accurate results.
Enter Twingly Spam-free Blog Search.
Twingly takes on the blog search market with a home page that is somehwhere in between the between [...]

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Last week I suggested you give the new Flock 1.2 a try, and I don’t know if any of you would have… but if you do use Flock then I’ve found one extremely handy extension.
Google Gears is one year old now, and although we haven’t seen a huge adoption across the web, it is extremely [...]

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Vista integrated search right across the operating system but restricted access to Windows Search technologies only.
Windows Search provided decent performance, but just wasn’t as fast or efficient as Google Desktop. Google protested against Microsoft’s restrictions in Vista. Microsoft’s response was as of Vista Service Pack 1 to allow third-party applications to be set as the [...]

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