Monthly Archives: October 2008

Twitter Search

I just learned a cool Competitive Intelligence (CI) tip or trick: Use Twitter Search to get the skinny or the goods on companies and their products . . . as well as people and their reputations.  Those of you familiar with … Continue reading

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Blog Search Tools

Search Engine Journal has a nifty profile of blog search tools. The usual suspects are covered: Technorati and Google Blog Search. However, I totally overlooked the fact that an RSS reader such as Bloglines can be used to search for not … Continue reading

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100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Websites

How did I miss this? – – PC World’s  collection of cool tools. You can display the resources by category - – e.g., “Learn Stuff”. Also, you can display an A-Z list. Compiler and writer Mark Sullivan describes these websites as “indispensable”. No … Continue reading

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Ask.com . . . Back in the Game?

Last time I’d heard about Ask.com they had laid off a hero, Gary Price, and switched their focus entirely. Barely any mention of them – – save for a diss or two – – @ the recent Web Search University … Continue reading

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Google Image Search Features

Just noticed that Google Images has some cool advanced search features. Specifically, searchers and users can limit by “content type”. Currently Google is offering the following options: any content news content faces photo content

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