Tales from the Terminal Room, June 2005 – Issue No. 63 The latest issue of Tales from the Terminal Room is now available. If you are a Google Desktop Search fan, you might be interested in the article “That darn Google Desktop cache“
Search Strategies for the Internet: Search Tools Summary and Comparison An updated version of the comparison chart covering Yahoo, Google, Exalead, MSN, Giigablast and Teoma is now available as an HTML file and as a PDF. I’ve given up trying to restrict it to just one page. There are so many search engine features that … Continue reading Search Strategies for the Internet: Search Tools Summary and Comparison
AskOxford: Collective Terms for Animals A useful section of the Oxford Dictionaries site for settling arguments and checking your pub quiz Q&A. We were having a heated discussion regarding the correct collective noun for a group of hippopotamuses. Yes, sad, isn’t it? We had a laptop and mobile coms but a Google search came up … Continue reading AskOxford: Collective Terms for Animals
Yagoohoogle, mentioned in a posting on April 7th, has becomeTwingine. Same features (compares Google and Yahoo side by side) but the title and URL are much easier to remember!
Official Find – The Official-Site Searcher This site claims to make it easier to find the official web sites of top brands and companies. Type in your brand name or company into the search box and you should find the official site at the top or in the top 5-10 search results. For major brands … Continue reading Official Find – The Official-Site Searcher
Swoogle Just heard about this tool at the Prague Inforum 2005 conference. Think of it as a sort of Google for the semantic web.
Dogpile Missing Pieces A neat little tool from meta search tool Dogpile that compares the top 10 results from Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. The graphic shows how many results are in only 1, 2 or in all 3 search engines for a particular search and includes sponsored links from the top of the pages. … Continue reading Dogpile Missing Pieces
YaGoohoo!gle An interesting tool that runs your search on both Google and Yahoo at the same time. It displays your results in two fames alongside one another in your browser so you can view both sets at the same time. Actually – its better to look at them one at a time; I started to … Continue reading YaGoohoo!gle
Gigablast Related Pages This is not like the Google related or similar pages where you start with a single relevant page and ask Google to find other pages similar in type and content. The Gigablast offering works at the search level: you type in your search strategy as usual and near the top of the … Continue reading Gigablast Related Pages
BananaSlug Another gem from Phil Bradley’s blog (I don’t know where Phil finds these sites!). You put in your search strategy and then BananaSlug adds a random search term. Alternatively you can select a category for your random word – e.g. animals, great ideas, random number, themes from Shakespeare. The idea behind this site is … Continue reading BananaSlug