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Search for “Desktop Search”

June 2, 2007

The other day I was reading about the popular Desktop search tools on a popular technology site. The 3 tools featured were Google Desktop Search Microsoft Desktop Search Yahoo Desktop Search I was immediately keen to know as to how Google, Microsoft and Yahoo display their respective desktop search products on their search engines. Search [...]

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Search Result Link screwed by Google Personalized Search ?

May 17, 2007

Google Personalized Search which was out of Beta this February was enabled by default for every Google account. Once you login to your Google Account, your entire “Web History” is being recorded by Google. The recording is not just limited to Google Search; in fact searches across the various Google services such as Image Search, [...]

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Technorati Favorite Exchange

April 25, 2007

Kawaiikuma at DoshDosh has been running a interactive experiment from some time called as “Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange“. (Thanks to Garry for pointing me to this programme) After I left a comment in DoshDosh’s post 100 people have add this blog as their favorite. (Before I “enrolled” for the programme, the count stood at 7). [...]

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Krugle – Another code search engine

February 19, 2007

Koders is a code search engine which enables developers to easily search and browse source code hosted on thousands of open source repositories. Krugle (which sounds like Google) is yet another search engine focused on developers and intends to make code search easier and faster. One of the nice features about this search engine is [...]

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SearchMash

February 12, 2007

SearchMash as the name suggests is a mashup of a Search Engine and is created and maintained by Google itself ! Surprisingly you don’t see any Google logo in the index page or the search result page. Only the TOS page seems to confirm that the site is maintained by Google ! When it was [...]

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Searching in Digg

January 19, 2007

Digg is one of the best sites to look for quality content and hence is one of the places I “search” (other than Google) when I need to find quality links for a particular keyword. However more often than not, when I search in Digg, I end up with this screen ! First of all [...]

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Definition Search in Google

January 7, 2007

If you are searching for a meaning of a word or a term, the Definitions feature of Google Search should come in handy. Till now if I wanted to quickly lookup a meaning for a word say preposterous, I used to search in Google with this keyword preposterous+meaning To see a definition for a word [...]

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Google Search does math too

December 21, 2006

I was talking to my brother the other day on phone and I had to quickly convert 4lbs to Kg’s. I was about to search in Google for a unit converter and he reminded me that I could do this easily in Google Search itself ! I just had to enter “4lbs in Kg“ in [...]

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Search Patents with Google

December 14, 2006

Now you can search/find full text of U.S patents via Google Patent Search. Phil points out that Unites States Patent and Trademark Office does have its own search service and its not that really useful. The first keyword I searched was “Google” and I ended up with this result !! Sanitary Device for Repelling Mosquitoes… [...]

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Tracking Comments

September 10, 2006

User A leaves a comment on a blog User B (can be another user or the author of the blog) responds to the comment There is no reponse back from User A on User B’s comments ! This might happen due to 3 reasons User A saw User B’s response, but was not interested in [...]

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