OUTLOOK SEARCHES

There’s a new utility being developed that might be your new best friend. X1 indexes Outlook e-mail and contacts, as well as all your files, and does lightning-fast searches for words in them. Some of you have just had adrenaline shoot into your body. I did when...

A9.COM SEARCH

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...

MSN SEARCH

If you use MSN’s web search for “linux windows,” it returns sixteen web pages with both those words on them. Try it! If you use Google for the same search, it returns almost nine million web pages. What’s going on? This author makes a mistake and argues that it...

PHONE BOOK SEARCHES ON GOOGLE

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...

80-20 RETRIEVER

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...

SEARCH ENGINES

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...