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Clicker’s TV Guide For the Web Opens Up

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Clicker, the search engine for TV shows on the Web that was announced a couple of months ago at TechCrunch50, is now open to the public. I like the idea, the interface, and many of the features, although it’s still rough around the edges in places. The site’s mission is simple enough: It wants to help [...]

5Words: Wolfram|Alpha, Now on Bing

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Bing and Wolfram|Alpha collaborate. Twitter explains new retweeting feature. Microsoft: Windows 7 imitates Mac. Google makes SafeSearch even safer. Dislike YouTube ads? Skip ‘em! Microsoft disconnects Xbox game pirates. iPhone app developers get tracking. Tour Bill Gates’ house: $35K. Vimeo videos, now on iPhone. Snow Leopard update dislikes Atom. Gizmodo loves Nikon’s projector camera. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Google Magazines: Now Actually Findable!

Friday, November 6, 2009

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I keep writing about the wonders of Google Books’ archive of scanned magazines–most notably, the utter delight that is the complete LIFE. Every time I do, I pause to wonder why it’s practically impossible to find a magazine unless you know it’s there. Problem solved, mostly: Google Books now has a page with thumbnail images of [...]

5Words: Can’t Stop the Google Music

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Google search launches music feature. Once again, Google-FCC correspondence. Google navigation for iPhone, maybe. Netflix coming to the Wii? Windows 7 as Wi-Fi router. Apple Stores to dump Windows. Color e-ink in the works. Sneak peak at iPhone Lala. Surprisingly sensible dual-screen laptop. Windows 7-XP battery tests. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Google Previews Social Search, Talks Twitter

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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More news from the Web 2.0 Summit: Search honcho Marissa Mayer just previewed Social Search, a feature the company plans to launch as a Google Labs experiment. It’ll place user-generated content–blog posts, photos, and the like–at the bottom of search results. And that content will come from your circle of friends, which includes both people [...]

Yup, Google is Getting Twitter Search, Too

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Did I just hear another shoe dropping? Shortly after Microsoft’s Bing launched Twitter search, Google’s Marissa Mayer has blogged that Google also has a deal to integrate Tweets into its results. Something will show up “in the coming months,” which could presumably mean either next week or sometime in 2010. Mayer didn’t have much to say [...]

Yup, Bing Gets Twitter Search

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Back in July, Bing added some not-very-exciting Twitter integration to its search results. Today at the Web 2.0 Summit here in San Francisco, Microsoft confirmed the news that All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher broke (and my colleague Ed Oswald wrote about): Bing has a deal with Twitter to provide a much more sophisticated level of [...]

TheFind’s New Take on Shopping Search

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Shopping search engine TheFind has relaunched with a bunch of new features. It claims to cover 350 million products, and I believe it–I got tons of results when I searched for everything from cameras to camera accessories to specific books to baby products to condiments. TheFind isn’t like a comparative pricing engine such as PriceGrabber, which [...]

Thirty-Three Web Tools for People Searches

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Last week I told you my story about how I found someone on the Internet (see Use the Web to Find Anyone in the World). This week I’ll show you the tools I used, the ones I recommend, and a few of the arrows aimed my way by subscribers. (As it turns out, many of [...]

Practically Perfect PDF, Courtesy of Google

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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This is very simple and very useful: Google is now using the Web-based PDF viewer that I’ve been enjoying in Gmail to make it easier to view PDFs that you happen upon on the Web. You know it’s available when you see a PDF in Google Search results with a “Quick View” link: Click it, and [...]

Google Gets a Better Sense of Time

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Google has added some new features to its Search Options feature, a list of search-refinement features that you can choose to turn on over on the left-hand side of search results pages. They include the ability to increase and decrease the number of shopping sites that appear in results; to filter for blogs, books, or [...]

Wize’s New Shopping Search: Wiser, Still Room For Improvement

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Wize, a shopping research site that attempts to be a one-stop resource for finding out what folks think about products of all sorts, officially unveiled a major redesign on Tuesday. It’s a useful upgrade to a powerful reference tool, although I encountered a number of quirks as I explored the wealth of information it contains. Wize [...]

Shouldn’t Every Day Be Google Doodle Day?

Sunday, September 27, 2009

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If you visited Google on Sunday–and odds are pretty good that you did–you may have noticed that its logo sports what seems to be a typo but is really a celebration of the company’s eleventh anniversary… The special logo is known as a Google Doodle, and it’s a tradition almost exactly as old as Google itself [...]

Goby, a Search Engine For Activities

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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Looking for something to do? Starting now, you can look to Goby, a new search engine that launched Tuesday night. Rather than trying to beat Google at its own game, Goby is trying to be really good at one thing: helping you find places to go and activities to participate in–whether they’re in your own [...]

Bing Search Gets Visual

Monday, September 14, 2009

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Here at TechCrunch50, Microsoft search honcho Yusef Mehdi just announced Bing Visual Search, a new feature which is supposed to be going live any moment now at http://www.bing.com/visualsearch. (Actually, it seems to have gone live and then stopped working again, at least for me–and oops, now it’s working again. Sort of. Okay, now it’s broken [...]

I Like Searching. But I’d Rather Sit Back and Not Search

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Once again, I’ve guest-blogged over at BingTweets about the future of search–or at least the future of search that I’d like to see. This post is called “What’s Better Than Searching? Delivery!” And it’s about the potential for services to get really smart about the things we’re interested in, and really good at delivering information [...]