launched today, WikiSeek is a vertical search-engine indexing only pages within the Wikipedia-domain(s), plus sites which are linked from within Wikipedia-pages (an attempt to minimize spam-results and deliver better results than Wikipedia itself). Search Engine Land thinks it’s poorly implemented.
remember Scrybe, the pretty-much-hyped Flash-based online-calendar/PIM with offline-capabilities, which went into pretty-private beta a few months [...]
according to Read/WriteWeb, Eurekster just upgraded their social search service swicki. a swicki is a user-created mixture of customized search engine (think Rollyo) and wiki, allowing its users to tag and promote search-results up & down, as well as adding their own results. sounds a lot like what Jimbo Wales is going to create [...]
if you’re bored of the ever same, sterile user-interfaces of common search engines, you might wanna try out Ms. Dewey, a Microsoft-owned experimental search-frontend to Windows Live Search. being distracted by hi-quality flash-video of librarian Ms. Dewey (played by Janina Gavankar, who – according to Valleywag – has been featuring soft-porn movies in her past [...]
superficial observation might suggest that blog-search & -indexing is a problem solved long time ago – after all we have specialised blog search-engines like Technorati, sphere and Icerocket. however, Technorati – blog-search pioneer and defacto market-leader – is afflicted by repeated technical problems (like randomly “forgetting” to index blogs for weeks – just google for [...]
years after the big search-players agreed on nofollow-directives and robots.txt-controlled exclusions, Danny Sullivan reports that Microsoft & Yahoo have announced to join Google’s sitemap-effort, an XML-protocol allowing webmasters to optimize the crawling of dynamic web-content:
Overall, I’m thrilled. It took nearly a decade for the search engines to go from unifying around standards for blocking [...]
in case you haven’t spent the day under a rock you probably already heard the news about Google Co-op. the freshly rolled-out service allows everyone to build customized frontends to Google’s search-index for integration on their own website, similar to established services like Rollyo but with greater flexibility. users can restrict search-results to their own [...]
Google has added some nice features to their Webmaster Tools recently. site-admins may now query extensive charts of Googlebot’s activity (see screenshot below) and are allowed to control how often the search-engines spiders visit a site (though only in rough levels like “slow/medium/fast”). an interesting new feature is the opt-in for Google’s enhanced image search, [...]
looks like Google ain’t going to slow down these days: Code Search – Google’s effort on indexing source-code on the web – was launched earlier today. Code Search offers developers powerful ways (read: regular expressions) to search for code-snippets in any particular language, under any specific license. a quick test-drive unveiled that Code Search suffers [...]
just subscribed to the Daily Search Cast (thanks to a recent post by Jason Calacanis). during his daily 30 minutes, Search-Engine-Watch-founder Danny Sullivan covers all the news on search engines and search marketing. yesterdays episode discusses the alpha-launch of ‘human-powered’ search engine ChaCha (I just gave it a try but was quite disappointed), Yahoo! Answers [...]
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