Posts Tagged ‘Search Engines’

Google v Bing : So lets have it out

Much has been said already about Bing, the new SE from Microsoft and the $100 million dollars being used to promote it. The bottom line is this – is it helpful in exploring our chosen corners of the web?
Maybe we no longer have to all choose the same one (more or less) for all queries [...]

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Another attempt at an EU Google-Killer

At a time when Google holds 90% of the search market in Germany and Spain, and almost 75% in Britain and it is generally acknowledged that European companies in spend far less on research than those based in other parts of the world, one of the many fragmented ‘EuroGoogle’ efforts is about to receive [...]

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Exalead – not throwing in the towel

I’d like to share in some of the optimise shown by …?… (alarm:clock euro posts are never signed apparently) on the subject of Exalead the French Search Engine. I would. But I can’t.

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Mr Twingly & Oscar Torrents

Two Swedes in the Net news.
Twingly pulls in blog RSS feeds from all over the world, showing them accumulate in pillars on a rotating 3D globe. Post titles scroll by; click on any title to display the post and have the globe flip to the blog’s physical location.
Hackzine calls it “Fun eye candy for a [...]

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The widget wagon rolls on…

French start-up Criteo, the distributed recommendation service, is dishing out their ‘collaborative filtering technology’ for use in the blogosphere with the AutoRoll widget.
The idea is a dynamic blog roll made up of similar sites that the people who visit your site have an affinity with. It’s a community thing I suppose, a kind of MyBlogLogs [...]

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