Apr 17, 2004 | Amazon, search, web_services
Amazon.com has unveiled its own search engine, www.a9.com. Search results are drawn from Google as well as Amazon, and include search results from inside books indexed by Amazon. If you sign in with your Amazon account, you can store your search history, annotate web...
Apr 29, 2003 | Google, search, security
Google has added a new service that will make you go, hmm. Do a Google search for your home phone number. Type in the number like this: 707-xxx-xxxx. If the number is listed in the phone book, you’ll instantly get back your name, your address, and links to maps that...
Apr 20, 2003 | search, software
I have a lot of information stored in my Outlook folders. Maybe you’re in the same position – dozens of subfolders, or 5,000 messages in your Inbox that you plan to organize as soon as you have time. 80-20 Retriever is a $49.95 program that indexes your Outlook...
Mar 13, 2002 | Google, search
This article starts out by explaining the different approaches chosen by Google, Yahoo, and AltaVista for indexing the Internet – and makes it easier to understand why Google is so scarily accurate. It drifts a bit at the end, but the first half is interesting...
Nov 27, 2001 | Google, search
Google is experimenting with different ways to rank web sites when it reports search results. Here’s an interesting article about search engines and the extraordinary things done to increase site rankings on Google and the other search engines.
