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Google Special Search

August 11, 2006

One problem of extensively using the Google Toolbar (Browser Toolbar) for search is that you will miss some of the customized search features that Google provides. I just happened to stumble upon Google’s Special Search feature. The special search allows you to narrow your search based on a specific topic. Currently the following specialized services [...]

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Find Sounds !!

July 31, 2006

I am sure very few people know about the existence of this site. As the name suggests, this site helps you in finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. Snapshot of different search engines and their [...]

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Colibri

July 12, 2006

One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer. But there were other reasons for me not using Google Desktop in the first place. It didn’t work well in my office [...]

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Saarr Beta

July 10, 2006

Google as of today is undoubtedly the best/fastest search engine. Its also a well known fact that for any search in Google very few people go beyond 2 pages of search results. Even though each search result in Google includes a “keyword related” excerpt, the data is always not enough to decide whether to click [...]

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Something Is Broken At Google

May 24, 2006

There is a post at digg which is worth checking out. An online privacy service portal Cotse.net found that one of the main keyword in google search that bought users to their portal was “privacy service“. In recent days they found that none of the search results for the keyword “privacy service” was pointing to [...]

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Yahoooo

May 18, 2006

Yahoo has launched its new home page at yahoo.com/preview. Currently the page works only with IE 6 and Firefox 1.5. There are loads of cosmetic changes and usage of AJAX is very much noticeable. Whatz New ? Personal Assistant – This is a preview area displaying recent messages from Yahoo! Mail, an online friends list [...]

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Riya – Photo Searching Redefined

April 20, 2006

Few weeks back I blogged on "Photo Uploading" portals. Flickr was the best, however there was a upload limit in the free version and the number of albums you could create also was limited to 3. At that same time, the google search had come up with a link to Riya. The portal boasted of [...]

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