Category: Search oriented sites and forums

Search has gone mobile. Smart phones with large screens, decent keyboards, and wi-fi connection finally makes it fun to surf the web from a hand held device. But still, the browser window is rather small. Entering a query and browsing the search results in Safari is cumbersome. Web search apps make this easier and many of them integrate multiple search engines and services. I have tested iPhone web search applications and reviewd our five favorites.

Those of you who follow the search engine scene regularly know that you need to keep up with what search engine guru Danny Sullivan and his friends are doing over at Search Engine Land. Now SEL gives more room to the main stories.

Here’s an introduction to Google videos presenting the company’s products and services.

Pandia celebrates its 10 year anniversary. Here is the strange story about how Pandia was born out of an act of the Norwegian parliament. In Web time Pandia is ancient. It was born in December 1998, a couple of months after Google was incorporated. At that time AltaVista was the best search engine around, and a large number of search engine companies competed for the number 1 spot.

There is a new site presenting search engines and tools, with its own directory and discussion forum.

PicLens is a Firefox addon that makes image search fun and easy. It is as easy to install as any other Firefox addon. Once you have restarted Firefox, you are good to go. Set out for your favorite image search site. In the search results, an icon will appear in the images. Click it, and the rows of little thumbnails is transformed into a 3D slide show, filling your entire screen.

AltSearchEngines would like us to make April 1st a day without Google.

On Stephen Arnold’s new blog on knowledge management and search engine technology.