Browser’s address bar or Search bar which one you prefer?

Published at July 18, 2008   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Marshall had a nice post on Readwriteweb where he discusses about people entering URL’s in the search bar rather than in the address bar of the browser.
Google’s search share is growing like a weed, Latest [...]

Boss: Build Your Own Search Service with Yahoo Technology

Published at July 11, 2008   Filed Under Yahoo   0 Comments  

Yahoo announced BOSS today, a service that allows developers to build their own search service using Yahoo search technology. Boss stands for “Build your Own Search Service”, the goal of the Boss is to faster innovation in search industry, Yahoo says.

TimeTube: Youtube Video Search Mashup

Published at May 10, 2008   Filed Under Video   4 Comments  

Timetube displays youtube videos in a timeline format. You enter keywords for videos and the search results will be organized in a timeline format. Most popular videos will appear with bigger thumbnails, you can click on video to watch it.
It is an impressive mashup of the youtube video search, you can quickly find videos [...]

Yahoo Glue Pages: Mashup of Search Results, News, Videos, Images

Published at May 8, 2008   Filed Under Yahoo   1 Comment  

Yahoo India Search is now displaying a mashup of search results combining, text, image and video results in one search results page (Screenshots at the end of the post). Yahoo News Release says that they have chosen India for the beta test for search results. These new mashup search results pages are dubbed as “Glue [...]

Improved Live Search News

Published at April 16, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft   0 Comments  

Microsoft Live Search has improved its Live Search News. I do see the new page morning, but now it is not showing. The UI looks like something similar to techmeme.

Blogged: Human Edited Blog Directory

Published at February 26, 2008   Filed Under Blogging, Internet   1 Comment  

Blogged.com is a blog directory and a tool for discovering new blogs. Unlike other directories like Technorati Blogged is human edited. Users can rate the blogs, comment and submit their favorite blogs.
Each blog is ranked in relevant categories with a score, this score is assigned editorially by Blogged.com. Users can also rate blogs, you [...]

Wikia Search Launches

Published at January 7, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched the alpha release of much waited search engine Wikia. Everyone is reporting that it is bad, of course this is just an alpha release so things may change later.
As of now the search results are poor, search wikia agrees with it. As of now there is nothing great about this [...]

Voting for Google Search Results

Published at November 29, 2007   Filed Under Google   5 Comments  

Today Google Operating system posted about a personalized search experiment Google is doing with the search results. This experiment will allow you to personalize the search results by adding, moving or removing the order of search results.

In the search results page there are two buttons, one up arrow and one “x” button, you can [...]