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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Friday, November 6, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 27, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
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 [...]
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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