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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 548 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
The past couple of weeks have been a busy period for science search tools. In this post we take a look at several resources that have been online for read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 548 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
For the second consecutive year The World eBook Fair is online with close to 750,000 titles online at NO CHARGE. Most are ready to download (PDF) or read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Sugarrae 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://skooiz-en.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
The focus group wasn't huge, but this is the first study/research/documentation I've ever seen about French Canadian search habits. Topics covered read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 547 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
In this post, we report on Payscale.com, a database with job salary info (both free and fee-based), raising nearly $9 million dollars in Series C ven read more »
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Posted By: Caydel 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.caydel.com)
Category: Other Searching
Barry Schwartz ranks highly for 'fat hairy naked man'. I happen to rank highly for 'kill people for money'. What about the rest of you? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.exalead.com)
Category: Other Searching
Some busy days at a search tool I like a lot, Exalead.
http://www.exalead.com

First, Exalead just won the 2007 Microsoft-ChinICT Award for the most innovative and fastest growing IT enterprises in Europe and China.
http://blog.exalead.com/200 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WesleyLong 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.twerq.com)
Category: Other Searching
As online searching evolves many industry experts are speculating that algorithmic search is beginning to see the end of its days. The new web (Web 2.0) is founded on user interaction and involvement in not only receiving information on the web but read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
I spent some time today compiling a bunch of articles that I've posted ResourceShelf and while working with Danny, Chris, et al. at SEW. They discuss content-based image retrieval, cameraphone search, and related issues.

If this is a topic of i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: sensebot 545 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Searching
I'd like to share with fellow Sphinners a very non-traditional concept of Web search results that we have at SenseBot. We think that by shifting the paradigm of what search results are, user satisfaction with search can increase dramatically.

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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 545 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Other Searching
Incisive Media has launched a vertical search engine for the mortgage industry. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 543 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
The Markets Data Center (MDC) from The Wall Street Journal is an one impressive resource. This compilation of databases (some with near real-time data), lists, and other data is a "must have" bookmark for both the business researcher and investor. A read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 543 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
More and more states are providing databases with prescription drug pricing information. Most recently, Vermont went live with their database. In this post a bit of background of what's available along with a growing list (we are updating daily) to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RhineStonne 542 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hubpages.com)
Category: Other Searching
You have heard of Yahoo. You have heard of Google. But have you heard of GahooYoogle? Yes. Its just that. Its a combination of Yahoo and Google. Google + Yahoo = GahooYoogle. It helps you to search both Google and Yahoo at the same time. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 542 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.indeed.com)
Category: Other Searching
The other day I posted about a category of search tools I call Search + Intelligence.
See: http://sphinn.com/story/114

I wanted to point out that meta/federated job engines, in this case Indeed.com, is doing some interesting stuff with their dat read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobWeatherhead 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.worldofsearch.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
My initial thoughts on the effect of the convergence of different results into the SERP. With the intorudciont of the new ask.com platform and Google universal search, what does this mean for advertisers? Open discussion welcome! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Other Searching
2 things here: placed javascript that allows for a visual snapshot of a website when hovering over a link and a company claiming to be building "the next great search engine." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Other Searching
Yesterday (http://sphinn.com/story/576), I posted about the cool chart from the Indeed.com Job Trends series illustrating the rise of the phrase "social networking" in job listings.

Today, I've updated that post with more Indeed news. The compan read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Other Searching
Released from Beta today, PeekYou.com aims to index everyone. The first true openly edited white pages, an open source directory of every individual online. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.indeed.com)
Category: Other Searching
You can search jobs anywhere in the UK using the familiar ‘what’ and ‘where’ search boxes. Location options include town, city, county, postal code and country (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).

Indeed.co.uk joins Canada.indeed.com and read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mjasra 540 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.findtechblogs.com)
Category: Other Searching
KnowledgeStorm launches New B2B/Technology Search Engine read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOish 539 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoish.com)
Category: Other Searching
There may be better ways to spend your time other than complaining about Mahalo. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 538 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Searching
While search engine representatives and light hatters (the whitest of the white hatters) say that having great, link-worthy content and links is enough to get high rankings, there are many sites with these traits that do not get listed for the words read more »
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Avatar Posted By: crimcheck 537 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetnews.com)
Category: Other Searching
A new service promises to fix and enhance your online reputation, using what the company calls a "proprietary system of search engine optimization techniques". read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Red5 536 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Category: Other Searching
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates both gave big keynote addresses in January 2007. So how did their messages compare? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 535 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
While most search engines say they return unbiased results, it's interesting to compare how well the services of a company perform in the search engine of the same company and other competing search engines. read more »
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