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Avatar Posted By: steff0219 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.freagair.com)
Category: Other Searching
http://www.BuildaSearch.com has released a new feature which allows any website owner, business or blogger to add a custom site search to their website. A site owner could have a fully functional customized search engine within minutes. BuildaSearch read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-theory.com)
Category: Other Searching
"The real search market share report is measured in terms of estimated unique U.S. visitors rather than number of queries performed. Because of automated rank-checking tools (and manual rank checking), Google’s estimated search market share based on read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JoshuaSciarrino 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Baidu get's sued. Would Google? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ChelseaBlacker 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Other Searching
Cyberchondria - leaping to dire conclusions while researching health matters online

**Study was part of Microsoft's effort to add features to its search service that could make it more of an adviser and less of a blind information retrieval tool. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pixelschieber 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Other Searching
After the Hype, what is left of the new search engine Cuil? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: zigojacko 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Other Searching
Google introduced SearchWiki, a search results customization feature, to the public last week. Naturally, there are comparisons being made with Wikia Search, one of the original roll-your-own search machines.

So we ask: Which is best? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Misscj 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://scienceforseo.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
There's a lot of talk about the semantic web, but not so much about the ubiquitous web. It is different to the traditional browser. It strives to provide you with the right thing at the right time in the right way. A knowledge and communication mod read more »
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Avatar Posted By: johnshehata 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.john-shehata.com)
Category: Other Searching
Inspired by Bill Tancer book 'click' I did some search myself on what are the top questions American do ask online. I used Google Keyword Tool and only got keywords that fit specific criteria. I believe that what we search for reflects not only who read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Searching
Ann Smarty writes, "Blog search tools are numerous; most of them are pretty much useless (per my opinion). Here I am looking only at the most helpful and unique ones that I do recommend trying and that offer some great features." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://twopieceset.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
Nick Gerner shares the lessons and experiences from building the new Linkscape tool from SEOmoz. Hard work and a must read. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: thejimgaudet 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Attention Google, you have made me smarter. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: deadsetchamp 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchblog.tamar.com)
Category: Other Searching
Barrie takes NeXplore for a test drive. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: HeadlandDigital 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Credible sources seem to be the new "in" thing on the web, and Hakia isn't too far behind. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: joehall 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jozsoft.com)
Category: Other Searching
This is my first attempt at video, where I showcase a new search tool that I have created. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: tamarisk83 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com)
Category: Other Searching
It sounds like everyone wants to beat Google these days. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: g1smd 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchme.com)
Category: Other Searching
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Now hear this. This is *way* better than Cuil, and it is still in Beta.

What do you think?

The "stacks" feature is very innovative, the UI is amazing.




It requires flash and a fast web connection. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Cybelle1 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Searching
Thoughtful post about research and education read more »
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Posted By: TomSeo 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Other Searching
Oriango.com is a Dictionary Style Search Engine. With Oriango you can perform searches, add and share the Web alphabetically. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seobrien 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fastcompany.com)
Category: Other Searching
Reporters and venture capitalists often ask me to name some of the top vertical search engines. Because I believe strongly that search will become a dynamic industry of very search specific sites and concepts, I decided to compile a listing of what read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theadminzone.com)
Category: Other Searching
Cuil - the latest supposed "Google Killer" - is having problems with its Twiceler crawler allegedly ignoring robots.txt, generating random URLs to crawl, and crashing large websites. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ggallucci 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.networkworld.com)
Category: Other Searching
Just when you thought no one could possibly launch yet another search engine along comes Viewzi. Viewzi, like several other new search engines, is actually a meta-search engine aggregating the results of searches from a number of primary search engi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ggallucci 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Other Searching
The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in question, it's been interesting to see how they've evolved to the point of replacing the address bar.

With more inf read more »
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Avatar Posted By: 1witness 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://crystalcoasttech.com)
Category: Other Searching
Wow, this didn't turn out like I thought, Wikia Search is in trouble. Great post Anthony! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: azakers 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.azakers.com)
Category: Other Searching
First introduced in May, Idée announced yesterday that TinEye, the revolutionary new image recognition & visual search engine is now in open beta. If you haven’t had a chance to mess around with TinEye yet, you owe it to yourself to head on over the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pbarnhart 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
I've been using Tineye (tineye.com) this for awhile now on closed beta. This is a pretty amazing search tool for images. There have been several write-ups recently - this one is excellent. No doubt a lot of photographers and graphics designers wi read more »
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