New Media + IT

I find this quite cool…
Found via Digg.

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[ categorized as: Google, Mac, Search ]

Vaibhav (who as posted some comments on this blog) has posted about Google Alerts at his own blog:
Go to http://www.google.com/alerts and login with your Google account credentials. Now let’s say you want to be notified whenever there is something new on the web (or at least the part that Google monitors); let’s say this something [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

I just saw this at the Google Blog: Google has now started to include YouTube videos in the video search results.
YouTube still remains independent, though:
YouTube, as we've stated previously, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google, and will continue to operate separately. Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

Many of you have do doubt seen this before, but I think it deserves to be posted again.
A Google Image search for "tiananmen" clearly shows how the Chinese authorities are censoring the web.
Google.com image search
Google.cn image search

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

Last year France and Germany proclamed, that they would create a competing search engine to take on Google and Yahoo. The new project was dubbed "Quaero", latin for "I search".
But according to The Guardian, Germany has now left the coorporation.
»The project soon ran into difficulties and now the German economics and technology ministry has confirmed [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

According to The Register Google overtakes Technorati.
I'm afraid I have to agree. Lately Technorati hasn't been doing so well with a lot of searches returning in a "error — please try again later" message.
Maybe it's time to consider Google's blogsearch?
Update 1: TechCrunch has a more thorough post on the current state of blog search engines: [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

I've just created a Firefox plugin that enables you to search directly in my blog from the search field in Firefox' upper right corner.
Link to installation, you're done in a jiffy :-)

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[ categorized as: About this blog, Search ]

A week ago a friend of mine asked me to try out PubSub.
But that day the site was offline, and today it still is. Anyone who knows why and for how long PubSub.com is offline?

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[ categorized as: Search ]

It's apparently time for the search engines to publish their list of topsearches.
BBC News has a story of the top 10 searches on Google in 2006.

1. Bebo
2. MySpace
3. World Cup
4. Metacafe
5. Radioblog
6. Wikipedia
7. Video
8. Rebelde
9. Mininova
10. Wiki

To me that looks a bit more…eh…geeky than the top Live searches. Hhhhmm……

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[ categorized as: Google, Search ]

On the Live search blog, the Live team has just posted the list of top searches in Live Search in 2006.
Don't know if you can make anything out of that list or not. Sure would help to see how many times the different queries had been searched for.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Search ]