Category: Search Engines
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Intelligent photo searching coming soon!
Michael Arrington, of TechCrunch, has the first review of Riya on his site. What is Riya? Riya, formerly known as Ojos, is facial recognition software – basically, if you upload you photos to Riya, it will ask you the names of people in the photos, and quickly start to recognise them in more of your…
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Microsoft follow Google into Book Search
I had a much longer post prepared about this but I lost it when I had a server crash (due to my playing around with my .htaccess file!). Anyway, according to the BBC, Microsoft are following Google’s lead into the Book Search arena. MSNBC’s report states that Microsoft are teaming up with Yahoo! and the…
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Video search via rss
Yahoo! have posted a nice instruction set on their blog, detailing how to subscribe your copy of iTunes to video searches of interest so that you are constantly fed relevant updated video casts! Basically, to do it you simply use the RSS url generator to generate the RSS feed for your video search, add that…
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Developments in search
Two search announcements overnight: Chris Pirillo announces a new search engine – Gada.be and Yahoo! builds blog search into its News Search service The Yahoo! blog search engine is disappointing – from a user interface point of view – the blog search results are hidden away in a sidebar of the main results on the…
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Yahoo! attacks iTunes podcast monopoly
Yahoo! have just rolled out Yahoo! Podcasts – a service which lets users find, listen and subscribe to podcasts. PodTech has an interview with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo!’s Chief Product Officer about the new offering where he says: We want this to be as open as possible on both ends. We want to work with every…
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Google launches online rss feed reader
In case you missed it, Google launched their online feed reader application Google Reader (in Beta) on Friday. Google Reader has an amazing interface built in Ajax and uses a “Lens” analogy for reading feeds. I can’t help but think though that the interface actually sacrifices usability for looks. The interface seems, almost, to get…
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What exactly is RSS?
Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…