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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Bing
You may have heard the speculation. It’s true: Microsoft will overhaul its approach to search. Live.com, according to Wired’s Epicenter, garners only 10% of all searches. Still, Microsoft thinks it has something to offer and may unveil Bing (code name … Continue reading
Collecta: Real-Time Search . . . Coming Soon
Caught wind of the upcoming launch of a real-time search tool called Collecta. You must enter your email and sign up to be notified when the site offically goes “live”. Check out these sample search results on the query Obama. … Continue reading
Taking Wolfram Alpha for a Spin
Wolfram Alpha would like you to know the following: again, it is not a search engine! Take a look @ their FAQ, and you’ll see that the tool is a “computational knowledge engine“(now that’s cerebral, is it not?). What’s the … Continue reading
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Visual Search
Pandia ranks and rates its top 5 visual search tools. If you’re tired of text-based results, give the likes of Ujiko and SearchMe a whirl. Best excerpt from the Pandia post: ” . . . it is necessary to explore … Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha Launch WebCast
Nothing better to do on a Friday eve? Tonight Wolfram Alpha will host a webcast regarding its launch.
Google Search Options
Watch this video about some new Google features — “Google Search Options”: New ways to slice and dice as well as refine search results . . . by facets, content type, etc. The video says and illustrates it all; what … Continue reading
More on Wolfram Alpha
This New York Times piece puts Wolfram Alpha into perspective. In short, it will exist alongside Google and not supplant it. Interestingly, creator Stephen Wolfram dislikes the hype and comparisons of his tool to Google. How come? Wolfram Alpha is … Continue reading
Google Supplements?
CNN announces a new era of Web search in this article; it’s a good sketch of existign and up-and-coming technology – – from semantic tools such as Twine and Hakia . . . and the much-hyped Wolfram Alpha, which is … Continue reading
The New Invisible Web
Joyce Valenza, Ph.D. discusses the New Invisible Web in School Library Journal. It is comprised of content from wikis, blogs, video, and microblogging tools. Valenza blazes a trail by highlighting tools to scour this trove. “These days, when we search, … Continue reading
Google Public Data
Google unveiled a new feature – public data search — on the same day that Wolfram Alpha held a webinar about its computational knowledge engine that will be available to search this May. By the way, BBC has an interesting … Continue reading
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