Google Does Shakespeare Et tu, Google? Google has added full text of every Shakespeare play as part of Google Book Search, Explore Shakespeare with Google. All plays are nicely divided into Comedy, Tragedy, Romance, and History; in addition, Google Earth is prominently featured with the opportunity to search Shakespeare landmarks such as the Globe Theater. Eventually, I would love to see Shakespeare sonnets, critical essays, quotes, etc. indexed here as well....
RSS - Things That Make You Go Hmmm Why doesn't the new Yahoo Spark Blog publish an RSS feed? Of any kind? Not even an "add to my Yahoo" button? Why can't I subscribe to the Technorati Hot Tags widget that's (supposedly) updated hourly? How come eBay has RSS feeds enabled on the Announcement Board, the eBay Discussion Boards, or listings from specific eBay Stores, but I can't subscribe to searches in YouTube (thereby denying...
"Secret" Google Products Via Google Operating System, Tony Ruscoe has an interesting post on secret Google stuff. More from GOS: "Tony Ruscoe has found many interesting Google services, using an automated tool that fetches URL addresses like https://www.google.com/ accounts/ Login?service= [GoogleService]." "Google LH2, a service that for the moment redirects to http://lh2.google.com/lh/invitationRequired. That means it's a closed beta. The name might suggest it's Google Lighthouse. Google RS2, Google SSD, Mobile Download Console - SSD might...
AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email First, a bit of background from InfoWorld: "For the first time in its history, AOL is displaying ads along with e-mail messages to its paying subscribers, to increase the delivery mechanisms of its online ad inventory, an AOL spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. This practice is common in free Webmail services but generally not in fee-based e-mail accounts, where the absence of ads is normally considered a perk of being a paying...
Yahoo buying into GMarket And no, it's not a new Google product (but wouldn't that be a weird news story!). According to ZDNet,"U.S. Internet firm Yahoo is buying a 10 percent stake in South Korea's No.2 online retailer Gmarket, giving it a foothold in one of Asia's fastest-growing e-commerce industries." More from the story: "Gmarket is fast catching up with eBay, and it seems to be on track to rise to the top position as early...
Google Spreadsheets Google Spreadsheets is (semi) up and running today; it's in a limited beta test at this point, so you can't actually use it, but you can sign up to be one of the invited few. More about Google Spreadsheets from the official Google Spreadsheets Help Page: "Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and...
New Search Tab at Bloglines From Bloglines News; there's a new search tab within the Bloglines interface that's the "first big mashup with Ask.com." More from the story: "Behind that fancy search tab is our all-new “Blog & Feed Search.†We created it by building a search index populated exclusively with Bloglines' human-selected subscriptions. We then applied Ask.com's world-class search technology to the index and supplemented the Ask algorithm with Bloglines subscription data and citation information....
Google TV? From The Business Online: "GOOGLE is planning a new Âversion of its search engine – designed for TV screens – that the company’s co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting. Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business: “At the most people currently have access to only around 500 television channels,†said Schmidt. “They should have access to everything – that is where we are heading.†And a search of Google Jobs seems to...
Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBay Just in the last five minutes, I've received a letter addressed personally to ME from the CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman! W00t! Well, not really personally..it's to my eBay ID and I guess it went out to like a million other people..but let's look at it anyway, shall we? "As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a request to get involved in a debate in...
Reasons Why You Should Try Gada.Be Chris Pirillo has written a lengthy manifesto presentation on why searchers should try Gada.be. He has divided it into Enthusiast, Mobile, Developer, Business, Casual, Researcher, Jobseeker, and Shopper; and given pertinent, compelling arguments for using Gada.be for each category: "(for the Internet Enthusiast)There’s no quick way to find the feeds for your favorite search term en masse. With Gada.be, every search renders results inline - with the RSS feed for...
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