PubSub Search Down; PubSub Too?

March 23rd, 2005 PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time.

October 21st, 2005 It appears to me full content RSS feeds are actually helping and compounding the splog (spam blog) problem. Splogs or spam blogs are blogs which are created by using syndicated content of other blogs, automatically aggregated, to increase their PR and AdSense dollars.

June 12th, 2005 With the rapid proliferation of RSS Feeds and offline aggregators it is presumable that virus writers will try to exploit this avenue to spread the virus. But the question is whether it is feasible? In short technically a resounding YES.

July 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.

February 23rd, 2008 Simple Thoughts blog now boasts a new and improved search facility, thanks to Google customized search. Now you can get the search results on our site with our look and feel, without having to go to Google.

November 18th, 2007 By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above.

March 1st, 2005 Too bad their sample request url's do not work! Their width of services is more than google - image, news and video search capability in addition to standard web search. They seem to think that location based search is a separate category.

October 26th, 2006 I have been in an interesting discussion with a very high profile client when Google Search came up. One recurring thought which came up was how the apparent strength of Google search, that made it the number one search engine, is its very weakness in several industries.

October 25th, 2005 If you, like me, has been the victim of Yahoo Spyware aka Yahoo IM then you may notice that in the firefox location bar if you type in a keyword, it takes you to Yahoo preferences page. Previously it used to perform a Google "I'm Lucky" Search and take you to the first page of its search results automatically.

November 10th, 2006 Opera Browser is the best in terms of search engine integration. It allows you to easily add your own search engines, access search engines by a single alphabet and finally set any search engine as the default.

February 28th, 2005 Another feather in their search engine cap! Microsoft always claimed that it loves competition, looks like finally it got one. I wonder when Microsoft will go for purchasing Google...

January 13th, 2009 Are you a Mac-buff and looking for a Google experience. Obviously you know Google is best for online searches.

December 14th, 2004 Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it. This makes me nervous.

June 19th, 2006 Google Inc. unveiled a search site today to help you find U.S. government information.

November 10th, 2006 You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines.