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According to Matt Wells, owner of the search engine Gigablast, his site now supports boolean logic. “You should be able to do nested boolean queries using the traditional OR, AND, OR NOT and AND NOT boolean operators.” See his help page here.
Tools to Dress Up The Web Browser. This brief article directs readers to several useful search engine toolbars and bookmarklets.
Press release from Overture: “Overture Services, Inc., a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, today announced the launch of the world’s largest search index of approximately 3.2 billion documents. The index was developed by the former Web search unit of Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), which Overture acquired in April.”
Consumers Rate Online Search, Portals, and News: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: “E-businesses are getting better overall in the view of their customersbut performance varies widely from company to company, according to the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) study released today. The report, which includes measurements of search engines, portals, …
Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait. Congrats to Tara Calishain whose book Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools receives much deserved recognition in the beginning of this article that focuses on advanced search features specific to the major search engines.
Internet Search Companies Could Face Fight on Ads: “Some of the biggest Internet search services (Google and Overture) could be setting the stage for a legal battle with companies that object to the way these sites are using their trademarks.” (thanks Donna)
This article is reprinted from the August 18 WSJ: Google Is Most Popular Search Site, But Others Sometimes Do It Better. Has Teoma surpassed Google’s technology? Give it a try and make your own determination.
From the Google press release: The Google Toolbar is out of beta, and available for download at http://toolbar.google.com. Google’s free browser utility enables users to search from any page on the web and offers pop-up blocking, web form filling, and a new Blogger button that makes posting to Blogger.com weblogs quick and easy.
Google Web Search Features – Calculator: “To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you’d like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units …
From Reuters: “Google, the No. 1 Web search engine in the United States….announced eight customers for its enterprise search appliance (Google Search Appliance)…that helps companies and organizations search for products and information within corporate intranets and Web sites. The company, seen by many in financial circles as an ideal candidate for an initial public offering, …
From Research Buzz: “Google is finally offering news alerts, which may finally fill the giant hole left in my life by the demise of Northern Light News and THEIR alerts. You can get to ’em at http://www.google.com/newsalerts. Apparently you will not have to have an account for this. All the site offers is a space …
Search query saving tips, by Gwen Harris: “Saving a search query for resubmission later is standard practice among users of for-fee information services. With some tweaking, this can also be done on the open Web. Saved searches can be used to watch for pertinent news stories on the major news search engines — Google, Alltheweb …
