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New from Amazon’s A9.com Search – Yellow Pages on A9.com: “Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street.” Web Yellow Page Search Gets Image Boost: …
From Scientific American, Seeking Better Web Searches: “Deluged with superfluous responses to online queries, users will soon benefit from improved search engines that deliver customized results.”
About Google Video: “Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content…Right now we’re just testing this product, so you’ll find programs only from a limited number of channels, which we’ve been indexing since late December 2004.” These channels include PBS, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, Fox News, and four San Francisco Bay Area stations. …
Press release: “A new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that internet users are extremely positive about search engines and the experiences they have when searching the internet. But these same satisfied internet users are generally unsophisticated about why and how they use search engines. They are also strikingly unaware …
Via ReseachBuzz, this posting with news that Google Search now supports queries using up to 32 words, a significant increase over the previous 10 word limit. Thanks to Tara for this information, as there does yet appear to have been an official announcement from Google.
Almost a decade ago, PointCast was a cutting edge “push technology” that streamed updated, cutomized news feeds to your desktop. I sure liked it, although it routinely crashed my PC. Fast forward, and here is new twist on the application, from Yahoo. “The My Yahoo! Ticker (Beta) makes it easy to track your favorite information, …
Microsoft is done beta testing MSN search, and it is now “offically” live. Related news about MSN – Really Simple Syndication: Getting Started, is a useful guide to implementing news feeds on the My MSN service. See also MSN Removes Beta Tag from Search Site, which includes information on how this engine indexes content, as …
From This is London, via Om Malik and Andy Baio, important news that blinkTV has an agreement with the BBC, ITV, Sky and Fox to provide subscription access to a substantial archive of past content as well as programming from future broadcasts. Related reference: BBC Creative Archive pioneers new approach to public access rights in …
From Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch a quick, useful tool to search phone numbers in the U.S. using Google. The author notes that his site has no affiliation with Google, and that users may search by full name, or use first initial and last name, as well as reverse lookup (by entering the phone number).
Google press release: Google Releases Improved Photo Management Software to Organize and Share Pictures: “Google Inc. today released Picasa 2, free photo management software that makes it simpler than ever for people to organize, edit and share their digital pictures.”
“Yahoo! Finance is now offering company news feeds in the RSS format. Using the RSS URL Generator (located on this page), you can construct the URL you’ll need to subscribe to news about your favorite companies.”
Yahoo! Desktop Search joins the party alongside similar software recently released by Google, Ask Jeeves, and Microsoft. Details about the features of Yahoo Desktop search are discussed in this FAQ, and PC Magazine weighs in with a positive review, as does Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch.
