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Yahoo Local Maps is now providing real-time local traffic updates, noting incidents (minor, moderate and severe), road work (along with estimated duration), as well as speed of traffic (0, 35, 55+) for major cities as well as for selected locations, to be expanded in future.
Following upon the heels of Microsoft’s desktop search suite announcement, interesting details of another entrant to be launched on Wednesday: First Look At Ask Jeeves Desktop Search. According to the article, Ask.com’s utility addresses the privacy protection issues raised as concerns with other desktop search tools.
From the press release: “…Google Inc. today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google…Today’s announcement is an expansion …
Features include [See this link for more details]: Three search toolbars make searching quicker and easier Desktop Search finds things on your computer, fast Automatic form fill manages personal information and passwords Pop-up Blocker prevents bothersome advertisements Highlight helps skim through result pages Related Articles: Microsoft Launches Desktop Search, Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray, and …
Press release: “Google Inc. today launched the next generation Google Groups… Google Groups can be found by clicking on the ‘Groups’ link on the Google home page or visiting http://groups-beta.google.com. This enhanced product enables users to create, manage, search and browse web-based groups, as well as subscribe to and track favorite groups. Building on the …
Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching of library materials
From the FAQ About Google Scholar: “Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly …
Exclusive: MSN Desktop Search Revealed includes screens shots of the new utility that will be released in December as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite. (via Slashdot)
By Tara Calishain, this PC Magazine article reviews a number of options, provided by individuals and services, to obtain Google search results via email.
MSN Search (beta) About MSN Search Microsoft Unveils Its Internet Search Engine, Quietly Microsoft Web Searcher Isn’t as Good as Google, But in Time It Could Be
This morning the Google homepage indicated “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.” From the Google Blog: “The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep …
Tuning up your Skills in the Web Search Garage, by Chris Sherman. Web Search Garage, by Tara Calishain
