Received a tip from Anjali about a new web based service that they have released.
Titled FoundIt, it enables a user to get a birds eye-view of all of one’s local files; these include Word, powerpoint, images, web history, email, etc. One can then search within a certain file type or globally and by keywords or [...]
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Live Search’s Weblog today announced an application which brings local search, maps, driving directions, and live traffic information to your mobile phone.
You can browse through news, maps and Windows Live Spaces by visiting the search page from your mobile phone.
You can also access these features via SMS, very useful for those who don’t have GPRS [...]
Netvibes Blog announced this feature today.
You now have the option to filter your search results or search the web. Unlike the traditional search methods, the filter option just goes through all the content in all your tabs and displays which results match your search term.
The modules this can search in are:
Feeds
All Digital Life Assistants [...]
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Have you been wondering about the small window that pops up whenever you hover a link on this blog?
It is called Snap Preview Anywhere and is a free service offered to you by Snap.
Snap is a different kind of search engine. It provides you with the results in the left pane with a preview of [...]
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This definitely is good news for all webmasters. Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined Google in supporting the Sitemap Protocol.
If you are new to this, Sitemaps is a good way to tell search engine robots which pages in your site you definitely want indexed.
While not a guarantee that they will be indexed, it definitely [...]
You can now add Windows Live Search Box to your website.
When the user enters a query, the search box dynamically builds a floating DIV on your page to display the search results. You can customize the query in the first tab to search your site, your macro or anything else, while the second tab will [...]
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Liew has written a short tutorial on using OpenSearch technology for the auto discovery blog search.
The tutorial is written keeping in mind a WordPress blog. However, with little modification it can be made to work with any blog, forum or website which allows search functionality.
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