Synata Offers A Better Way To Search Through All Your Online Stuff
One of the most common actions done online by anyone is searching. Here is a free Web app and Chrome extension that wants to make this endless search easier. Synata searches everywhere in one go.
Beats Music Reviews, DoD BlackBerry Love, Winning Windows Phone [Tech News Digest]
Beats Music reviews, Yahoo Search is made secure, Department of Defense chooses BlackBerry, saga of Banned Bluebook is revealed, Twitter expands its targeted ads, and Windows Phone is beating the iPhone… sort of.
Use Map Your Representatives To Find Information On Your Legislators With A Click [U.S. Only]
Public servants should be open to scrutiny and dialog. This new web tool helps U.S. citizens touch base with political representatives in their area. It answers the basic question – who represents me?
Bing Improves Search With Klout Verified Snapshots Of Social Profiles
Bing has now taken a page out of their rival’s social book by integrating Klout “Snapshots” alongside search results, which bring up LinkedIn public profiles and other connected information.
TorSearch Aims To Be The Google For The Deep Web
Tor is a hidden service and part of the Deep Web. TorSearch is a new anonymous search engine that its founder Chris MacNaughton wants to make the “Google of Tor”.
How To Add Speech Recognition Capabilities To Your Website Search Engine [Chrome]
These days, the buzzphrase on the streets of cyberspace is "voice recognition". Everyone is going totally bananas about it. Google is racing to integrate speech recognition into as many of their products as possible.
How To Find Someone's Real Email Address With Gmail
Need to email someone but don't have their address? Here are some common sense to come up with solutions that will help you figure out most people's true email addresses.
Bing Video Search Adds Streamlined Navigation & Hi-Res Video Previews
The Bing video search experience gets better this week, with a redesigned interface that brings in high-resolution video previews, more sources, and filters. The changes hopefully will lead to not only a better video searching experience, but also a better watching experience. One of the underlying changes enables you to watch the videos on a lightbox overlay without leaving your collated search.
8 Google Search Tips To Keep Handy At All Times
Figures don't lie, and the figures suggest that the majority of Internet users choose Google over the rest of the competition. With that in mind it's important to make sure all of those Google users are utilizing all that Google has to offer when it comes to its search engine. Everyone knows how to conduct a normal search by typing some words and/or a phrase into the box provided and following the links that emerge from the overcrowded fog. But Google Search offers a lot more than just the basics.
The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From
The Web is a maze and you need more than a few standard operators to wade through it. To come out successfully on the other end, you need to power search. Your weapon of choice – Google Advanced Search. The homepage itself has a lot of Google Search tools which we don't use much, but if you want to get your hands dirty, you need to know the secrets of Google Advanced Search. Here are a few places where you can learn all about the inner workings of advanced search.
Google Algorithm Fail: 3 Examples Of Really Bad Google Results
At this point, there have been over 25 Panda updates, with the latest reportedly occurring on July 18th. Some great websites we all know and love have suffered traffic loss, but at the same time, so have numerous content mills we've all grown to dislike. Are Google search results as high quality as they should be after so many algo tweaks? In this article, I'm going to take a close look at the results of three common search queries and see just how quality the results really are.
Open Source Matters: 6 Source Code Search Engines You Can Use For Programming Projects
Open source projects need all the help they can get. If not with funding, then with volunteers contributing to open source programming and free tools they can brandish. Search engines tuned with algorithms to find source code for programming projects are among the tools for the kit bag. While reusing code is a much debated topic in higher circles, they could be of help to beginner programmers and those trying to work their way through a coding logjam by cross-referencing their code.
Can SEO Companies Really Guarantee a Top 10 Google Result?
SEO is one of the most misunderstood aspects of web design, it is also a primary target for scam artists that prey upon unsuspecting website owners, willing to do anything for a piece of the search engine pie. Want to know the crazy thing about it? They aren't lying. They really can get you listed in the "top 10" of Google results. I'm going to show you how they do that, and why it's an outright scam.
How To Make Good Use Of Google's Search Operators
With operators, you're able to display results that pertain only to certain websites, search through a range of numbers, or even completely exclude a word from your results. When you master the use of Google's search engine, finding the answer to nearly anything you can think of is a power that you have right at your fingertips. In this article, let's make that happen.
Pause Google: 8 Alternative Search Engines To Find What Google Can't
We probably know all the Google search tricks, but there are still things that Google can't tell us at first glance. Google's a Hercules, but we shouldn't be shortsighted not to spot the midgets. Yes, if you really want to go into those little hidden lanes of the web you need to keep a roster of alternative search engines close by. Here's a roll call of some search engines which can grab for you what even Google can't.
Keeping Children Safe In An Online World: 8 Ways To Set Up Kid-Friendly Search
The Internet can be a dirty place and you have to take steps to stay safe online, but it can also be a wonderful world where kids can let their creativity and imagination run free. Fortunately, there are a few ways to prevent its two sides from merging. Whatever your reasons, there are ways to set up kid-friendly searches.
Google Doesn't Rule The Entire Internet Just Yet [Search Trends]
When you examine Google search trends over time, it's amazing just how much it reveals about the public sentiment, and the rise and fall of various brands, service sand popular apps. It's really amazing to watch these trends and compare them between companies, products, websites and more. Sometimes, you can even predict which brands are going to win the war over the minds and hearts of the general public.
The Archie Search Engine - The World's First Search!
Written over two decades ago and with no updates since then, Archie provides a very different search experience than we're used to today. So how is it different, and could it still be useful today? I'll take you on a tour of this pioneering search engine and give you a perspective of how things have changed over the past 23 years.
5 People Who Might Google You & What They Might Find
It was only 15 years ago that the best you could do to find a person online was look for him on ICQ and hope you find his name. If you managed to do that, you were actually nowhere nearer to knowing anything about this person, except for the fact he owns an ICQ account. If you were very brave, you might have requested to add that person to your contacts, just to see what happens.
Become Better At Finding Stuff With Search Engines: Boolean Search Logic Explained
It only takes Google's thousands of servers half a second to query approximately 50 billion indexed pages, it takes you significantly longer to scan only the first page of search results. On top of that, you are likely to digress and open irrelevant sites. Why don't you do your constantly distracted and easily overwhelmed brain a huge favor and learn how to properly construct a search?