The Windows Sidebar team blog has a tip for getting the Vista Sidebar Slideshow Gadget to use images based on a search, rather than all the images in a specified location. The trick is to take advantage of Vista’s powerful search functionality (which regrettably, is hidden and handicapped in the Vista Explorer UI) to get the Gadget to use a virtual folder (known as a saved search) as its picture source.
Search Blog Wrap-up
There were a number of posts from the search engine side of the blogosphere that may not have seen. Here are a few that caught my eye: MSN Updated Their Index During The Thanksgiving Weekend MSN’s search engine, Live.com, updated their search engine index this weekend… and just in time for the holiday shopping season, […]
Google Book Search: The Path To Dystopia?
Brewster Kahle isn’t happy with Google Book Search. As director and co-founder of the Internet Archive, he isn’t the least bit timid in his criticisms, either. “Google is trying to set themselves up as the only place to get to these materials; the only library; the only access,” Kahle reportedly said. “The idea of having only one company control the library of human knowledge is a nightmare.”
Yahoo! Explicit Search Results
Someone has found a way to integrate pornographic images into completely innocent Yahoo! search results.
AdWords Algorithm Effecting Paid and Organic Search?
The roll out of the new Google AdWords algorithm is supposed to be calculating the quality score of a landing page.
What Comes Next For Search Engine Watch?
Danny Sullivan had announced some time back that he will be starting a new SEO blog: Search Engine Land.
Google Merging Blogs Into Search Results
Andy Beal has quoted Andy Boyd on Google merging blog search with natural search results. Andy Boyd also has screenshot of a page in which blogs were shown as results after the Top 10. He says that:
Turkey And Black Friday With Search
AOL and Ask each have made an effort to draw attention to their search engines with very topical categories for this week: what to eat and where to shop.
Urban Mapping Turns To Local Search
Urban Mapping, a company that “prides itself on broad domain expertise,” has been around for a while – its maps have actually won several awards. It’s getting fresh attention, though, for what one person has termed its “natural local search.”
AJAX and Search Engines
In the light of the immense popularity AJAX has received and the emerging tools like Atlas and AJAX.NET, I thought it was the right time to talk about the implications on search engine behaviour on AJAX enabled websites.