Category: Search oriented sites and forums

Top 5 iPhone search apps

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.

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Search Engine Land gets a facelift

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.

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Posted on Tuesday 23 December 2008
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Learn more about search and SEM from Google videos

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

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Posted on Tuesday 23 December 2008
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The strange story about how Pandia was born 10 years ago

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.

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Posted on Sunday 21 December 2008
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Search1.x - new blog covering search tools

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

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Posted on Monday 8 September 2008
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PicLens improves image search

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.

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Posted on Wednesday 16 April 2008
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A Google free day?

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

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Posted on Monday 31 March 2008
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Beyond Search, a blog about search technology and the search engine industry

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

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Posted on Sunday 9 March 2008
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