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.
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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 [...]

SearchReviews: StumbleUpon rankings for search engine results

Published at October 23, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   0 Comments  

Stumbleupon is a great site for driving traffic to blogs, i prefer stumbleupon over digg. Digg traffic will spike up for 2 days but stumble will send you traffic for few weeks.
StumbleUpon launched a new feature called SearchReviews. It will allow users to see stumbleupon reviews beside the search engine results. It will add stumble [...]

Yahoo Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration

Published at October 2, 2007   Filed Under Internet, Yahoo   5 Comments  

Yahoo Search added some useful features today, Yahoo search assist, videos and photos integration in search results. Videos, photos integration is similar to Google’s Universal search, the more striking feature in today’s announcement is the Yahoo search assist.
Search assist offers suggestion for search queries, and shows related topics related to the search term. Its [...]

Yahoo improves Yahoo Go! for Mobile with global expansion

Published at June 20, 2007   Filed Under Yahoo   0 Comments  

Yahoo announced on tuesday its improved version of Yahoo Go for Mobile, the new veriosn will be introduced on Friday. Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 will launch in fully customized versions on Friday in other countries including Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesian Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, Thailand and Vietnam.
Yahoo! Go is now [...]

Google Video Now a Video Search Engine

Published at June 14, 2007   Filed Under Video   4 Comments  

Google Video finally turned in to a video search engine, now it shows a frame similar to image results when you click on a search result. Google video now searches all major video sites like YouTube, Metacafe, vimeo.com, Yahoo video etc.
The frame above the video lets you rate the videos, share them with friends and [...]