Category: Online search tools and services

How the iPad will change the way we read and search

Pandia takes a look at the next generation of online magazine publishing, including the iPad, and looks at the consequences for search.

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Posted on Sunday 21 March 2010
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Top 5 mobile search engines

Search is going mobile. The number of people accessing the web on their mobile phone is skyrocketing and searching on your mobile or cell phone is different than searching on your computer: The screen is smaller and typing can be a hassle. To make your mobile searching fun and easy we present five great tools for mobile web search.

If you have an iPhone, you have probably already seen our Top 5 iPhone search apps article. But whether you are surfing the web from a regular cell phone, a smart phone or a web enebled PDA, searching is bound to be important to you. The five tools presented here, work on all platforms.

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Posted on Wednesday 3 March 2010
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Google adds Nearby search option for local search

Google has added a local search option to its search option panel. The Nearby option only works for google.com searches in English.

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Posted on Sunday 28 February 2010
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Surf the web anonymously with Startpage.com

Most search engines and all of the “big three” of search — Google, Yahoo and Bing — store several kinds of private data related to searches. Startpage and its EU brand Ixquick has long been among the search engine industry’s leaders when it comes to protecting your privacy. These services do not record the IP addresses of legitimate users and abolished the use of Unique ID cookies already in 2006. They now take privacy one step further and offer anonymous browsing of your search results through a proxy service.

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Posted on Wednesday 24 February 2010
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Yahoo! switches to Bing search results

This week Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission.

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Posted on Sunday 21 February 2010
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Google celebrates Sami national day

In Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland Google is celebrating the Sami national day with a special logo today.

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Posted on Saturday 6 February 2010
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Why the Kindle and the iPad may change the way we search

This week saw the birth of the Apple iPad. In spite of initial skepticism Steve Jobs has decided that the tablet has a future, and he is right. It will also change the way we search. Pandia argues that publishers should support at tool that lets tablet users safe the web and subscription based content at the same time.

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Posted on Sunday 31 January 2010
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Test the search engines up against each other

Hakia has launched a site where you can enact your own battle of the search engines and find out which one you like the best

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Posted on Sunday 24 January 2010
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