Google offers site search for small businesses

20/Aug/2007

Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page.
The product, Custom Search Business Edition, adds to Google’s growing portfolio of paid services for businesses. It builds on Google’s Custom Search Engine, a free, ad-supported product launched last October for searching within a predefined group of Web sites.
A key difference with the paid edition is that businesses can customize the search page with their own logo and color scheme. They can also modify results by manipulating an XML (Extensible Markup Language) feed of the raw search results, to guide visitors toward products the company wants to sell, for example.
The service is priced at $100 per year for Web sites with up to 500 pages, and $500 for up to 50,000 pages, Google said on its Web site. Read More...

Data Visualization Tools

22/May/2007

16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools compiled by Mashable.com
snip: "From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful." Read More...

Simply Google

22/May/2007

Nice reconfiguration of all of Google's search functions in one simple interface by Chris McEvoy. Read More...

Give Me Back My Google

01/Apr/2007

Awesome stripped down Google (without affiliate links) Read More...

Cross Engine - yet another search engine mash-up

01/Apr/2007

Useful starting point for many popular search engines and portals Read More...

How to find MP3 files with Google

13/Mar/2007

here is the search string you can cut and paste into Google:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "my favorite band"

Substitute the phrase "my favorite band" for any band or singer you might be looking for, and your search will lead you to open indexes that contain downloadable music files.
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Whonu - a semantic search engine

01/Feb/2007

Whonu is arguably one of the very first semantic Web search engines available. It offers over 300 search sources and a smart interface that contextualizes what you enter. For example, enter a US ZIP code and whonu presents a set of links to geocode tools including maps, weather maps, and even public events in Google Calendar. There are so many features that the demo screencast video is 26 minutes long. Information is double partitioned by file type and source. The variety of options might be a bit intimidating, but for power research, whonu looks like one of the most promising search tools available, with an effort made to present structured meaning. Killer feature — saved query history using a row of dots. Read More...

Clusty - the clustering search engine

07/Jan/2007

Always on the lookout for an innovative approach to search. This metasearch engine from Vivisimo clusters results by sub-category to help you zero in on what you need—an approach AOL will take on the new aol.com, launching in July (see sidebar). For more cool new search tech, try Grokker, where Yahoo Search query results are displayed as a circular map. Read More...

Top 5 alternative search engines

02/Jan/2007

Google has 50 percent of the US search engine market, Yahoo! has 28 and Microsoft 13. But there are several other search engines available. Click the pic for the 5 best. Read More...

IA Search: an information architechture search engine

20/Nov/2006

Peter Van Dijck - An Information Architect, created this great resource for anyone interested in IA Design. An amazing collection of IA links and info without any spam or junk Read More...

Yotophoto: Find free photos by color

08/Nov/2006

Yotophoto is a search engine specifically for free-to-use images. Most of the images it indexes have been released under Creative Commons, GNU FDL, or similar licenses, and a smaller percentage are in the public domain. This means you can use any images indexed by Yotophoto without feeling subversive. And if you don't want to go to the trouble of visiting the Yotophoto web site, there's a search plug-in available for Firefox.

Now, are you ready for the really cool part? Yotophoto allows you to search by color. Need an image that matches your site's color scheme? Either use the Javascript color picker to choose from a palette of over 16 million colors, or enter a 6-digit hex code. Yotophoto will find images containing the color you specified. Read More...

Gegerka - FTP Server Search Engine

02/Nov/2006

Gegereka is a new FTP server search engine and indexer. You can search for .mp3, .wav, .jpg, .gif, .avi, .mpg, .zip, .rar, .gz, .exe, .doc, .txt, .pdf, .xls, .ppt and just about any other type you can think of. I tried both psd and wmv formats, of which it found many (screenshots after the jump). Gegereka looks oddly like Google, but so does everything these days. The scary thing is Gegereka finds files on FTP servers, and the owner of the server may not even have a clue that their files are being scanned. This is a cool idea for a web application, and I like the "search within results" feature as well, but I can see this tool being sorely misused by the RIAA and others like them. Read More...

Google to Offer News Going Back More Than 200 Years

01/Oct/2006

Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the launch of the Google News Archive Search.
The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles and more recent online content, spanning the last 200 years.
click the T-shirt to go to the BBC article Read More...

Social Media Shopping With Wize

26/Sep/2006

Ahh, the power of collective wisdom has finally been utilized as a shopping tool. Sure, sites like Amazon have always had reviews, and sites like Pricegrabber have always compared prices. But nobody has harnessed the power of social media (yay!) and online shopping quite like Wize.com.

click the pic to check it out, or read more... Read More...