Ajay on November 5th, 2008

There isn’t much that you can say about Iconfinder other than it does its job.
Iconfinder is a simple site that helps you find icons that various icon designers have on offer.
You can search by entering a keyword and Iconfinder pulls up the relevant results for matching tags from its database. Alternatively, you can browse through [...]

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Ajay on October 29th, 2008

Google is growing and growing super fast. What started out as a simple search engine today offers tonnes of services, some of which are released rather silently in their labs.
So, how do you keep track of them? Simply Google is a roundup of every search and service on a single page.
Neatly arranged in various categories, [...]

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Many bloggers and site owners have Google Adsense for Search installed on their blogs. This ensures that you can provide relevant results to your blog users while simultaneously making some money on the side.
While, there is no issue with other users using the search box, however, the question arises on the legality of you using [...]

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Ajay on September 13th, 2008

In 12 Free SEO tools to check complete site stats and not just page rank or SERP ranks, Mani Karthik takes a look at 12 tools that you can use to check your site stats, gauge their popularity and more. Many of these can analyse backlinks, links from other sites, search enginer rankings etc.

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Ajay on August 29th, 2008

In DIY File Index, Tim Fehlman teaches out to create your very own file index using a simple command prompt to create an index of your entire computer and then search for files. Can somebody convert this into a tiny program?

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Ajay on July 22nd, 2007

While searching Yahoo!, if you needed help in figuring out the exact query, then you’re requests have been granted. A feature that existed in the Yahoo! Toolbar in Firefox is now available on Yahoo! Search.

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Ajay on March 6th, 2007

The Google Webmaster Central Blog has an indepth article on Using the Robots Meta tag to instruct Google and other search engines about your site.

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Ajay on January 23rd, 2007

With a change that is bound to effect millions of sites, all links on en.wikipedia.org articles will contain the rel=”nofollow”.
This was stated in an email from Brion Vibber to the Wikipedia mailing list.
rel=”nofollow” is used to tell search engines to not follow the link. This was an attempt to thwart link spam. However, this has [...]

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Ajay on January 9th, 2007

Citing a brand new “tack” of returning and displaying results on mobile devices using the same old search technology, Yahoo! has launched oneSearch, which is a search engine service for your mobile phone.
What is different about oneSearch (as the name suggests) is that in addition providing relevant links to web and mobile web sites, oneSearch [...]

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Ajay on December 20th, 2006

Polar Rose, a Swedish firm, plans to make it possible for users to search through photos of people online.
It relies on a combination of face recognition algorithms and the collective intelligence of users for the same.
Originally developed by CTO Jan Erik Solem, the software is unique in that it is able to extract 3D information [...]

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