MetaFilter posts tagged with search and brokenlink

The search engine is dead! Long live the search agent!

davehat — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:02:26 -0800

blinkx is a new contextual search agent that seems to be causing some excitement. Unfortunately, it is not available for Macintosh or Mozilla at present.

corn is king

JohnR — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:56:35 -0800

I found these images, one, two, when I typed in “tent” in the “search all fields” field and selected image as resource type. The site is OAIster, which is a digital library, which has 3,273,233 records from 301 institutions. Its my new magic eight ball. (via)

milkshake

squirrel — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:24:56 -0800

Restaurant Industry Warns Members to Beware Strip-Search Hoax. "If anyone requests a manager or other employee to order someone to disrobe, ignore their request because it is a privacy invasion." Anyone want to supersize their sexual assault?

Spears Reigns Again on Internet

Blake — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:22:46 -0800

Spears Reigns Again on Internet . Lycos, America Online and Yahoo! all have their top ten of '03 lists out. Google Zeitgeist wasn't mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter Article, but it's always worth a look.

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait

Blake — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:18:25 -0800

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait. [NYT] It's nice to see the NY Times take a stab at helping normal folk become better at searching the web. They point to Gary Price's resourceshelf.com, Greg R. Notess's searchengineshowdown.com and Danny Sullivan's searchenginewatch.com and Tara Calishain's researchbuzz.com.
It's just nice to see a story that's not All About Google for a change. Somewhat related articles: One over at O'Reilly On How To Build Your Own, and one at CNET on Nutch, an open-source web search engine.
Anyone have any favorite search engine tricks to share?

voyoogle

pizzasub — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:28:28 -0800

Google as voyeur Interesting use of Google technology. Anyone find anything really interesting? Pretty addictive... [via MilkAndCookies]

DragonBoy — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:36:30 -0800

Teoma takes on Google?
Ask Jeves launched its new search engine yesterday aimed at challenging Google for the best search engine on the web. Teoma offers options to narrow your search using "subject-specific popularity." For example, if someone searched for the name "Bill Clinton," Teoma offers ways to refine your search, showing links to topics related to your search, such as "Clinton Scandal" and "Monica Lewinsky." Will this search engine replace Google as the SE of choice for the Internet savvy? Also, what other search engines do you use?

ryanshepard — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:26:29 -0800

newsnow.com search. here is a link to a search run through News Now (UK) for "terrorist" - lots of information streaming in from all over the globe.

endquote — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:26:36 -0800

Interesting sellout. About.com has changed the "o" in their name to a Life Saver throughout the site. That's some desperate advertising.

Aaaugh! — Fri, 09 Feb 2001 20:34:02 -0800

It's become second nature for many of us to head straight to Google when trying to find something, and more people seem to be discovering the site all the time. These days, savvy New Yorkers are Googling for love.

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:27:26 -0800

At 21,000 gigabytes of HTML, the web isn't all that large. (?) Is there anything which you can't find somewhere on the web? An entire Yahoo category for Potato cannons?

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:36:04 -0800

Isn't this how the IMDB got started? Maybe this guy will eventually be able to sell out. (But to who?)

metrocake — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:39:14 -0800

Search Engine Northernlight Donating Ad Revenue to Hospital One of my favorite search engines, Northernlight.com, is doing some benefit work -- during the week of October 14th through October 20th, searches on Northern Light will benefit the Duke Children's Hospital. Pretty cool -- and they're a good search engine, too.

triptych — Sat, 06 Nov 1999 22:24:52 -0800

A perfect complement to MetaFilter - a weblog metasearch tool. Found this on Scripting News.

mathowie — Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:02:48 -0800

Here's a screenshot of a new graphical search engine. Although the interface looks complicated, I have high hopes that this is better than all the attempted visual (usually 3-d) search engines in the past. Hopefully, it will help people find things easier.