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 entrepreneurs [...]
Cuil
Windows Search 4.0
Microsoft released a new version of Windows Search on Windows Update and made it a recommended update for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 users. Windows Search 4.0 introduces a wealth of new features and improvements over the previous version including the automatic indexing of shared folders, improvements in indexing online e-mail [...]
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are a great way of keeping in touch with certain changes in the Google index. This can be used to track keywords, news, a favorite device or celebrity and anything else that is indexed by Google. The user can define a few parameters including the interval in which the alerts are send out [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jul 13th, 2008
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Gmail Labs quicklinks to find anything in a flash
Gmail quicklings is a new feature rolled out in Google Labs for Gmail which enables you to create some links for frequents searches, but it can be used for much more. Not all of you have this feature yet, so if you don’t see any “Labs” option in your settings, try navigating to this link [...]
Search
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, [...]
Twingly Blog Search
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 [...]
Browse all text files in a folder at once
Interesting. That was my first thought when I read about Depeche View which loads all text documents, including html, php, log and several other file extensions of a selected directory and sub-directories in an editor making it extremely easy to search and locate specific information in all the files. Webmasters will most likely agree that [...]
