Category: Search software

Search innovation takes can be found in many places. You don’t have to try a new search engine. You don’t even have to leave the current page of your browser. Try these three great Firefox search add-ons.

A Firefox from the new search engine Duck Duck Go is now out of beta. It blocks 44 million spam domains, 28% of which are found in Google. If you have the toolbar installed and by mistake you type in yotube.com in stead of youtube.com, it will alert you of the mistake and ask “Did you mean youtube.com?” After a few seconds, it will then automatically redirect you to the suggested site.

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.

Google launched Google Latitude this week. It is a service that lets you keep track of where your friends are by tracking the whereabouts of their mobile phones. Pandia feels a little queasy.
The Official Google Blog puts it this way:
“Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device. It’s also an iGoogle [...]

I am a big fan of social bookmarking. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t add to my huge collection on Delicious. But recently my online research is not just for blogging but for academic papers. So I have taken a look at three great free tools for social bookmarking that will let me register a wide range of bibliographic information. These tools also facilitate online research collaboration and networking.

Quintura Site Search is a hosted site search, analytics and monetization solution for online content publishers. It provides visual-based search and navigation for site visitors. Among the users of this technology are the websites of the US magazines Maxim and Hilary as well as Russian Newsweek and Cosmopolitan in Russia. The launch of Quintura Site Search into the U.S. market on October 21 comes after the technology was awarded a U.S. patent. Quintura also raised new funding from Mangrove Capital Partners last month to scale the site search business.

Google presents its new Chrome browser in comic book form.

I do most of my work on Macs and most of my surfing I do in Firefox. One of the main reasons I use Firefox is that with its huge choice of add-ons it is highly customisable. But there are some valueble add-ons for Safari as well, for instance Inquisitor, a search plug-in.