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Friday, January 29th, 2010If you are on the Web, I will find you. I know I’m not the only ‘friendly stalker’ out there. If you are looking for a long lost love, forgotten family member or are just curious if your first grade teacher is still alive, here are some tools to help!
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How to Remove Your Most Embarrassing Moments from Google
Thursday, January 14th, 2010The mighty search engine has allowed us to do so many things. “Mighty” is the operative word, as these same search engines can also curse us all.
If you think about it, any schmuck can find out more about you than you’d like by typing only your first and last name.
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Google Gets Personal with Everyone
Friday, December 11th, 2009Google has rolled out a dramatic new feature called “Personalized Search.” This new feature impacts all users, even if they are logged out, on the most popular search engine in the world.
Google’s Personalized Search attempts to tailor the search results for a query to each individual based upon the information Google has previously collected for [...]
Google Launches Real-Time Search
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.
Amit Singhal, Google fellow, introduced the real-time section during an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. “We are here today to announce Google real-time search,” Singhal said, [...]
The Ultimate Toolkit for Searching the Social Web
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Social media has created an explosion of information online. People are writing on blogs, tweeting, bookmarking, sharing, commenting, etc.
You no doubt want to tap into this wealth of information and learn what people are saying about you, your business, your competitors and the topics you’re interested in.
The challenge is: how to find, filter and process [...]
Google Users Can Find Data on Themselves with New Dashboard Feature
Monday, November 30th, 2009Ever wonder what information Google knows about you? With a click or two, now you can find out.
Google released a feature Thursday that lets users see and control data that the web giant has collected about them. Called Google Dashboard, the service provides an online summary of a user’s Google files — Gmail, Google Docs, [...]
Beyond Google: Top Search Alternatives
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Have a question for the Web? For most surfers, that’s a job for Google (GOOG), which claims 64% of online searches. The site has become the go-to reference for hundreds of millions of queries every day.
But there is a growing field of upstart search sites—each with its own bag of tricks. From Microsoft’s (MSFT) new [...]
Creative Commons Launches Education Search Engine
Monday, November 9th, 2009Creative Commons has announced the launch of DiscoverEd, a search engine of “open” educational resources. Open as in as having a CC or other license that makes them more available for use. DiscoverEd is available in beta at http://discovered.creativecommons.org.
The materials in the search engine were not gathered from an open Web crawl; [...]
What Are the Most Dangerous Search Terms on the Internet?
Thursday, September 24th, 2009If you like to search for “music lyrics” or “free” things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And “free music downloads” puts 20 percent of web surfers in harm’s way of malicious software, known as “malware.”
A new research report by U.S.-based antivirus software company McAfee has identified the most dangerous Internet search words that [...]
Six Twitter Search Services Compared
Thursday, September 10th, 2009With developers rushing like wild dogs to build and launch applications to make your Twitter experience more productive, how can you choose which is the best tool to use if you’re running queries on your company name and competitor’s product line, or references on small-town bakeries or Red Sox pitchers?
Thankfully, there is no shortage of [...]
