Archive for the “Search Engines” category
Yahoo.com redesigns homepage. Puts back centered logo
by AJ on March 25, 2008
In case you haven’t noticed, Yahoo! recently had another redesign of its homepage. Placing the logo at the center just like the old times. (March 25, 2008) (October 17, 1996) Seems a lot cleaner than the previous ones. Do you (…)
Stumpedia launches human-powered search engine, inserts Friendster’s antique image
by AJ on March 7, 2008
Stumpedia recently launched and claims to be a human-powered search. Initial use proves that the search engine is fast (not super fast but OK fast). However, it still lacks content. Probably due to the fact that users might have to (…)
Crgslst: It’s Craigslist multi-city search + AJAX
by AJ on March 6, 2008
There’s a newly launched website called Crgslst (mind you, without the vowels). What is it? It’s an ajax-powered search tool to search items in craigslist. They also claim to scour multiple cities quickly – a feature craigslist doesn’t yet have. (…)
Learn more about your site’s status in the Google index
by AJ on January 31, 2008
Most website owners and webmasters wonder if the site they’re managing is on Google. We often search our domain, our company name, or even our own name and some specific keywords to see if the website we’ve done a few (…)
Yahoo! OpenID service now available as public beta
by AJ on January 30, 2008
Yahoo! just launched their OpenID service. 248 million users will now have the ability to login to any website that supports OpenID 2.0 authentication (link) and that my friend, is a huge boost to OpenIDs initiative. Here’s Jeremy Zawodny and (…)
Yahoo! Fire Eagle is coming!
by AJ on January 17, 2008
Yahoo! has a cool new project. Fire Eagle. According to their site, Fire Eagle is a new way to share your location with friends or with other websites and services. It’s built on open APIs so that developers can build (…)
Anatomy of a Google search result
by AJ on November 27, 2007
I know I’ve been away (almost a week) from blogging. Been very busy so far with a startup and a conference. Anyways, I’d like to share this video “Anatomy of a Google Search Result”. I hope you learn something new (…)
Friday Madness: Early adopters roundup
by AJ on October 19, 2007
Microsoft Aquisition Plans: 20 Companies Per Year “Not to be outdone by Murdoch and his slew of MySpace announcements, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made some pretty big announcements today at the Web 2.0 Conference, speaking on Microsoft’s plans to (…)
Demonoid blocked in Canada
by AJ on October 12, 2007
Demonoid a BitTorrent tracker, supposedly set up by an anonymous Yugoslav known only as Deimos is now blocked in Canada. The website indexes torrents uploaded by its members. These torrents can then be searched and the content shared using the (…)
Friday Madness: Early adopters roundup
by AJ on October 5, 2007
Zune 2 Launches Fact: 25 iPods for every 1 Zune sold. Still a long way to go huh? But at least iPod has a competition. It’s always hard without one. Zune 2.0 Social Network, anyone? More scoop here Google Reaches (…)
