Category: Search Engines

  • Yahoo! buys Upcoming.org

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    Tom Raftery
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    Upcoming.org is the site for managing your upcoming events and Yahoo! has just announced that it has purchased Upcoming.org. One of Upcoming.org’s founders, Andy Baio, adds more here. This adds to the increasing stable of purchases (Flickr) and innovations which Yahoo! has made recently. To get an idea of Upcoming.org’s functionality – see upcoming events…

  • Google to release Google Office?

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    Susan Kuchinskas of internetnews.com, eWeek, Scoble and a bunch of others are all reporting that a Google-Sun alliance is set to announce a Google version of Microsoft’s Office suite of applications. Sun bring their much vaunted StarOffice codebase to this partnership while Google bring their experience of running massively trafficked web apps. Google Office is…

  • Yahoo! releases Site Explorer

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see that Yahoo! has launched its Site Explorer (Beta). Site Explorer allows you to explore all the pages in a particular site – when I did a lookup on this site, it found over 800 pages! I must be a lot more prolific than I thought! Some observations – by exploring on this site,…

  • Lawrence Lessig backs Google Print

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    Tom Raftery
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    I read recently on Google’s blog that Google is being sued by the Author’s Guild for “massive copyright infringement” because of Google’s Google Print project. Google Print aims to index book content from publishers and libraries so that they can be found in your Google search results. Sound like copyright infringement? Well, Google justifies it…

  • Yahoo! launches Instant Search

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written recently about Yahoo!’s extremely shady business practices (working with the Chinese government to help jail journalists, building spyware into their IM client, and funding spyware developers) but today they launched an innovative search recently called Yahoo! Instant Search which appears to be quite good! Built with AJAX – the search box attempts…

  • More about Google Blog Search

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    Tom Raftery
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    An important feature of Google’s new Blog Search to be aware of is, as Niall Kennedy and Damien Mulley have noted, it is not really a Blog Search – it is a Feed Search. This may sound like semantics but there is an important distinction – many bloggers only publish summaries of their posts in…

  • Google launches flawed blog search

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google’s long anticipated blog search was launched overnight (I guess that means they’re not buying Technorati then Tom!). Google have made a faq about their blog search available where they say: There are a few different ways you can get to Blog Search: * blogsearch.google.com (Google-style interface) * search.blogger.com (Blogger-style interface) * The Blogger Dashboard…

  • Yahoo! now employing Spyware tactics!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I read with interest a post on Angsuman’s site this morning that Yahoo!’s new Instant Messanger application, when installed using the default settings on your system, will change your systems settings and install various applications on your hard drive unasked. A News.com article on the new release lists the changes: By accepting Yahoo’s “typical” installation…