Tag: Search Engines

  • Google to launch PayPal killer?

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    Forbes is reporting that Google is planning to launch Gbuy – an online payment system which would be a direct competitor to PayPal. If recent Google launches are anything to go by, PayPal doesn’t need to worry too much just yet. Google has proven very effective at getting the hype out there for any new…

  • Brief blog search engine review

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    I have been trying a number of blog search engines recently. I have subscribed to searches for the same terms in Technorati, Ice Rocket, PubSub and Sphere. Sphere is the newest player on the blog search engine block, only coming out of beta last weekend. The search is adequate – I searched for “technorati blocked…

  • Google Calendar reviewed

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    I recently decided to re-visit the online calendar issues I wrote about previously. Since writing that piece, Bernard informed me of a site called iCal Exchange which allows publishing and subscribing of iCal calendars. This service was ok but I had connectivity issues with it from time to time plus I didn’t want to have…

  • Why doesn't PodZinger provide transcriptions back to the podcasters?

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    PodZinger is a search engine for (audio and video) podcasts. It listens to the audio content of podcasts, transcribes the content and makes it searchable. This is quite a useful service because transcribing podcasts manually would take waaaay too long. I published an interview I conducted with Alex Laats, president of PodZinger, yesterday on the…

  • China blocks Technorati

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    I received an email this morning from Ken Carroll of ChinesePod telling me that China has blocked Technorati at the great firewall – it would appear that Technorati will no longer be available to anyone to use in China. Co-incidentally, when I interviewed Technorati’s CEO David Sifry on the PodLeaders show a couple of weeks…

  • Technorati tag search broken?

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    I did a couple of tag searches on Technorati this afternoon – but they came up empty – I wasn’t so surprised with one or two of the more obscure ones I tried but when my search for the tag Google came up with the following message: There are no posts with that tag yet.…

  • Mobile phones mean privacy is an illusion

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    SFGate.com is running a story on how Google’s plan to give San Francisco free wi-fi will mean that Google will be able to track the location of anyone logged into its wi-fi network. Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.’s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calling the company’s proposal…

  • Don't optimize article titles for search engines alone

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    There’s an article in today’s New York Times which claims that journalists are now writing their article headlines with search engines, not human readers, in mind! The search-engine “bots” that crawl the Web are increasingly influential, delivering 30 percent or more of the traffic on some newspaper, magazine or television news Web sites. And traffic…