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Pandia Post 30

(October 2006) Here are the latest news headlines and articles from Pandia. Go to www.pandia.com/searchworld for the online version of this news service.

5 great blogs on search and research

5 great blogs covering Internet searching, search engines, and search tools for searchers, researchers and librarians.
Pandia top five blogs on searching
In our Pandia Search Engine Detective collection of search engine intelligence sources we now count over 90 search engine marketing oriented blogs (!).

An alien from another planet could be led to believe that the search engines were created to serve the marketing people and not the searchers. There are not that may blogs out there that look at search engines and search tools from a searcher’s perspective.

Do not despair, though, because here are a few gems:

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Live Search adds LinkfromDomain operator

Using Windows Live Search you may find the web pages a specific site is linking to.

The Live Search’s WebLog reports that Microsoft has added a new command to its new search site, namely LinkFromDomain.

Using LinkFromDomain in your search includes all sites that are linked from a given domain. This complements LinkDomain (which includes all sites that link to a given domain) that was introduced back in June, 05.

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On the way to Google world domination

Docs & Spreadsheets, Google for Educators, and the Google Gdrive: It all adds up to a complete web based Office toolbox and PC, Pandia argues.

The Google plan for world domination get clearer every day, and those that are still in doubt should probably reflect on a few recent search engine news events:

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

First, last week Google launched Google Docs.

There is not much new about this service, it is essentially a combination of the online word processor Writely and the Google online spreadsheet.

Google Docs has its bugs and it does not have the features necessary to make us abandon Microsoft’s office — yet. This why so many bloggers and online experts find it hard to believe that this constitutes a threat to Microsoft. But believe us, it does!

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Pandia welcomes three new sponsors

The Pandia sponsor program we launched on October 7 has attracted a lot of interest, and we are glad announce our first three sponsors: Axandra, Text Link Ads and SEO Inc.

Pandia is a family run non-profit adventure. Still, running a large portal like Pandia entails some expenses. We would therefore like to thank our first three regular sponsors for their support. Their help is making it possible for us to continue this work.

The three sponsors are:

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Online search trends - sites and sources

Find out what people are searching for right now, and learn something about the culture you live in.

The search engines have become an integrated part of our lives. Each and every day billions of searches are made all over the world, reflecting stories of work and leisure, strife and passion, and the interests of millions of Internet searchers.

If you could tap into this enormous amount of data, you could draw maps of fashion, cultural trends, political shifts and anything people are concerned about right now. You could use these statistics for social research or search engine marketing. The opportunities are endless.

And indeed, some data is available. Pandia has made a collection of sites and pages presenting search and web trends.

Go to Pandia Web Trends and read more about online search trend resources.

Zimbio - new guide to the web

Zimbio allows users to make their own open topic portals and private extranets.