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2006 Yearend Google Zeitgeist

January 2, 2007

Do you know the difference between a “bebo”, “rebelde” and a “mininova”? Google has just published their list of the top ten searches of the year. If you have any interest in pop culture, you owe it to yourself to explore these search terms: 2006 Yearend Google Zeitgeist .

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Default Browser Search Engine

July 11, 2006

Many people do not realize that their browser address bar can act as a search engine. For example, instead of a URL, you can enter a search query, such as “Who is Barbara Feldman?” Here are instructions from Google on how to change your default search engine. Of course, these instructions assume you are changing [...]

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ESP Game

May 23, 2006

How do you teach a computer to categorize and label photographs and other images? Identifying objects in a picture is easy for a person, but very difficult for a machine. A graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University has a found a way to solve the problem by garnering the help of hundreds of thousands of [...]

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Finding Short Answers

February 14, 2006

When you are looking for a single fact or an answer to a simple problem, here are three sites to search in addition to the usual Google and Yahoo. Answers.com delivers definitions and explanations on over one million topics. Amazon.com Search Inside the Book delivers millions of pages from print books. And Wikipedia which is [...]

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To Improve Search Results

February 7, 2006

To improve search results, try using more than more keyword, use quotes around exact text such as the title of a book, and use the “+” sign for important keywords. More search engine tips can be found at Google Help: Search Features and Yahoo! Shortcuts .

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Official Search Engine Blogs

October 11, 2005

Want to get to know your favorite search engines a little better? Try reading their official blogs. Here are a few of the biggest: Google Blog, Yahoo! Search Blog, MSN Search WebLog , Ask Jeeves Search Blog. If you prefer a feed format, all are available in RSS.

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Yahoo! Instant Search

October 4, 2005
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DoubleTrust

June 28, 2005

A meta-search engine is one that submits your search query to multiple search engines simultaneously. DoubleTrust is one that combines results from the two most popular search engines: Google and Yahoo! It has some cool features, such as allowing you to indicate which engine you trust more, and the listing of “orphans” (sites which only [...]

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Google’s Cache

June 14, 2005

Because of various hiccups along the information highway, not all websites are available all the time. The next time this happens to you, you might be able to find what you need (perhaps a phone number or an important date) by looking at an archived (or cached) version of the site. Simply look up the [...]

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Google Desktop Search

March 14, 2005

Google has officially launched Google Desktop Search for Windows. It is a free download, and easy to install. After it has indexed your computer (which it does in the background, whenever your system is idle) it provides a desktop search tool to find keywords in email, documents, spreadsheets, PDF files, audio files, images and videos. [...]

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