Category: Online search tools and services

The Norway bombing and shooting shows us that there is a need for search solutions that let you follow foreign language news and social web streams in real time.

Larry Page, co-founder and new CEO of Google, has started streamlining the company, removing some of its less known offerings. Today saw the end of the Google Directory and the announcement of the closure of Google Labs.

Chances are, you’ve heard of crowdsourcing? And no, it’s not just a buzz word but rather revolutionary concept that allows peole save time and money, as well as to make a living working from home for tens of thousands of crowdsourcers. So don’t think of masses, mobs and crowds as something dumb, scary and unruly. Here are eight companies that chose crowdsourcing as their business model. Crowd in!

How do you pronounce English words and use them? A new video-based pronunciation dictionary offers pronunciation and use cases from videos of real people in real situations.

You can now keep up to date and learn inside tricks by browsing or searching links from over 100 SEO experts using trunk.ly. The links are aggregated from across their social networks — Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Pinboard, Tumblr, Posterous and more. Trunk.ly A couple of weeks ago, we shared the best bookmarking tools right now [...]

Pandia takes a look at how to use web feeds and twitter feeds to find the most relevant news, and at web clients and iPad apps that might help you do so.

Once you have found a great tool or important article online, you want to be able to find it again later. And anyone who works on more that none computer knows that using the browser’s bookmarking tool is more frustrating than helpful when that essential bookmark lies in the browser at work and you need it at home or vice versa. Enter online bookmarking — a friend to web heads and information professionals alike. But the online bookmarking scene is going through fundamental changes. What should you do to keep your knowledge stash safe?

Pandia relaunches its Radio search directory as a radio and music search portal.