Google is testing new ideas and implementations before they go public for everyone. The testing grounds for Google Search are called Google Experimental, a publicly accessible area where everyone can test out a few new features that might make it into the public Google search. Three ideas are currently listed on that page: Alternate views [...]

Categories: Google, Online Services

For many years now, Rapidshare has been the file-hosting site of choice. Rapidshare’s popularity is primarily due to the fact that it is one of the first sites of its kind that ever appeared on the Internet. Rapidshare is not without its disappointments, the major one being that there is no way for you to [...]

Categories: Music and Video, P2p, Search Engines

I can’t fully understand some of the decisions behind the launch of Cuil, the wanna-be Google Killer. I also don’t quite understand the amount of hype and media attention that went with it. In short, Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’) is a brand new search engine founded by a team consisting of ex-Googlers and various other Internet [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

The new search engine Cuil got some huge press coverage in the last few days from the likes of Techcrunch and The Guardian which also proved to be a test for their server infrastructure. Many startups who go public with their website either get no visitors at all or so many that their servers cannot [...]

Categories: Search Engines

One way to save big at eBay is to find auctions that come with misspelled titles and descriptions. Someone selling a Playtation 3 will probably most likely earn less than someone who is selling a Playstation 3. A bonus would be if the user failed to place the auction in the correct category which is [...]

Categories: Search Engines, The Web

The Internet is a big place with a lot of information. While most of it is helpful, there’s also a lot of rubbish. For example, social networking sites like Facebook can help you find long-lost school friends and keep in touch with them. Then, there’s Pipl. The site is a search engine. Nothing different about [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Search Engines, Security, The Web

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.

Categories: Online Services, Search Engines, The Web

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.

Categories: Search Engines, The Web

I have no data to back this up but I have the feeling that the French are very active in creating new mp3 search engines that let you search, listen to and download mp3s. FranceRadio is yet another mp3 search engine that combines the search results of various search engines to deliver better search results to the user.

Categories: Music and Video