What happens when you put together a popular blogging platform, a customizable search experience and a flexible search API? You get a Search Box widget for Blogger, built using the AJAX Search API, and powered by a Linked Custom Search Engine (CSE).
Configure this widget on your Blogger blog and you can immediately search not just [...]
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Now I love Google Desktop at work. I use it daily trying to find one customer’s file or another. Now I love its search, I’m not totally huge on its sidebar because it makes my work machine slowly stagger to a stop at work. But at home I also use the Google [...]
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Now I read a couple hundred feeds, rarely do I bring the post count down to zero. But this is amazing.
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the [...]
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I’ve read the Zeitgeist reports each year and found them sometime boring and sometimes intersting/boring. Well this year they posted on the Official Google Blog on how they come up with the idea. And made a little more sense on why some search results made #1. So go ahead and continue reading [...]
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[Matt Cutts]
If you’ve never read my blog before, welcome. I’m the head of the webspam team at Google. And I have a blog for days just like this.
Okay, first off you should go read this post. It’s entitled “Me Against Google” and the author is unhappy that talkorigins.org was nowhere to be found in Google [...]
Eureka! Your own search engine has landed!
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could easily build a search engine on your blog or website tailored to the topics and areas you know and love the most? You’re not alone if you’d like that — we’ve heard from partners large and small, and users across the web [...]
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WPopac: An OPAC 2.0 Testbed « MaisonBisson.com
First things first, this thing probably needs a better name, but I’m not up to the task. Got ideas? Post in the comments. For the rest of this, let’s just pretend it’s an interview.
Official Google Blog: Finding easy-to-read web content
Like most of you, when I search the web, I want to find relevant information with a minimal amount of distraction. But because I can’t see and I use a device that converts web text to speech, I’m even more in tune with the distractions that can sometimes get [...]
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New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches
New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago and has also announced a $3.75 million round of venture financing. In addition to covering the launch of Sphere here, we have a podcast interview with CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni Schneider over at TalkCrunch.
Sphere, which follows in the footsteps [...]
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