DocMazy is a novel kind of search engine exclusively dedicated to finding documents. Instead of returning websites, it digs up PDFs, DOCs, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and text files. DocMazy was designed to find information that gets buried in other search engines because documents often don’t score well in search engine algorithms, or aren’t indexed by [...]
There are plenty of places to go looking for definitions on the Internet. One I like to refer to is MetaGlossary, which tries to extract matching definitions from other web pages.
Enter a term and MetaGlossary returns a list of URLs that provide insight and a definition from the page’s text. It’s usually quite accurate and [...]
The real-time search arena, fueled by the popularity of Twitter, continues to heat up. Collecta is the latest and most visually appealing stab at getting real-time search right. It draws on images, articles, blog comments and microblogs for data, and refreshes automatically. The layout is a cool three-column affair, with filters on the right, live [...]
Android users can now search Google Maps using voice commands, and access Google Transit info from their mobile devices. To use the voice seach, just speak an address or a search term while you’re using Google Maps for Android. Google says it currently understands American, Australian and British accents. They’ve also added store hours, prices, [...]
The last time we talked about the uproar over Bing’s live video previews including some explicit material, Lee was reporting that Microsoft had changed the default safesearch features to block porn. A week later, they’ve taken one further step to reassure concerned customers that they’re not going to accidentally see XXX videos. Potentially explicit videos [...]
There’s some speculation over at the Google Operating System that Google is planning a microblogging search engine that will work a lot like Google Blog Search does now. gOS found some text on one of Google’s help pages describing the format for a microblog search: entering “recent updates about” in front of a search term [...]
Microsoft may be branding Bing as a “decision engine” rather than a search engine. But as far as web-based decision engines go, Bing’s got nothing on Hunch, a new web tool which emerged from private beta this morning.
Hunch basically lets you ask any question and get a pretty decent answer… after answering a bunch of [...]
When Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post back in 1801, he probably had no idea that the paper would eventually be turned into a sensationalist tabloid by Rupert Murdoch. Similarly, when Rupert Murdoch purchased the Post in 1976, he probably didn’t think the paper would ever try to cover tech news.
The same paper [...]
Late last year, Google added the ability to customize search results by promoting or removing items. These “SearchWiki” features also let you share, comment on, and add results to a page. Although the promote and remove buttons appear next to every site in a Google search, most of us either ignore them or are a [...]
First off, don’t worry - if you were using Bing to preview naughty videos in thumbnail-sized awesomeness, this doesn’t mean the fun is over.
In a post on the Bing blog, the crew has announced that they have tweaked search settings in response to concerns from corporate customers. The changes should now allow Bing to play [...]
