Google’s added a slew of new features to its Search Appliance, making it even more attractive to companies.
Yahoo Local Search Added To GPS Device
A new GPS manufacturer is the first to add an in-car local search engine to its features, and the umpteenth millionth company to issue a rotten press release. But let’s stick to the good news. Dash Navigation’s soon-to-be-released GPS device will feature Yahoo! Local search.
Google Updates Search Appliance
Last month, Yahoo and IBM announced a Yahoo optimized version of OmniFind, an enterprise search utility. Less than three weeks later, Google is now offering up new features found within its own business search utility.
Dreaming Of Search In 1994
Around the time the World Wide Web was being opened to users of AOL for the first time, and 9600 baud was a massive upgrade in speed for modems, some clever people made predictions about the future that held up pretty well over the years.
Search Engine X Too Powerful. Just Open Source It?
Skrenta explains what many of you already grasped about Google’s growing power.
Saddam Searches Flood Search Engines
As news of Saddam Hussein’s execution made its way around the web (rather quickly), people flocked to the search engines looking for video, images, and any other pertinent information about the hanging.
Search Wikia Will Drive By Users
The same wisdom of crowds that has propelled Wikipedia to prominence could be the key to remaking the search engine; we have to admit that it’s an idea we’ve seen already.
The Dilemma of Socially Driven Search
In a December 23rd posting, Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales announced the re-focusing of efforts geared toward developing a socially driven search engine. Wikiasari (or Wikia for short) is poised to take a competitive posture toward the larger search engines such as Google and Yahoo, but is this really good for the industry?
Google Custom Search: My search, My results
Wouldn’t it be great to use a search engine that shows results tailored to what you want and what you need?
Ask Tests Advanced Search UI
Richard MacManus stumbled on AskX.com, a testing user interface for Ask’s search engine.