MSN’s Search Engine Preview is Back At the end of July I reviewed MSN’s first tech preview for their new search engine. I wasn’t impressed. (Man, I’m getting crabby. Hey you kids, get off my lawn! Where’s my Geritol?!) Now there’s another preview available at http://techpreview.search.msn.com/ and the relevancy is much better. The query box [...]

IceRocket Adds Blog Search to New Features IceRocket, the search engine that has been hailed by many for their approach to “pioneering commercial search by putting the interests of wants and consumers before advertisers” has recently added some new features which are sure to increase their buzz – but not as much as having Mark [...]

My Yahoo Embraces RSS Feeds I started using RSS in January 2000 after Blake Carver sent me a exasperated e-mail asking why, for heaven’s sake, I wasn’t using it. Surely, he noted, I could see that RSS was the greatest thing since sliced soap. (He may have used slightly different words.) So when I see [...]

Google Books and GMail Plans Google has not had anything big for us since it went public some time ago. Now, it is back with some news that could worry biggies like Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It has decided to get into book selling business. The service is called Google Print and would be [...]

User-Guided Search Refining in Google Despite the fact that the Google API hasn’t been updated in over two years, people keep doing Cool Things with it. The latest Cool Thing I’ve seen is the very nice MyGoogleSearch ( http://www.mygooglesearch.com ). The idea behind this hack is that you can take the returned search results and [...]

Clush Offers Option for Meaning-Based Search It’s sorta clustering, but it looks more to me like the old “concept” or meaning-based searches for the late 90s, ala Oingo and Simpli. The engine is called Clush and the location is http://www.clush.com . What color there is on the front page is red, ruining a perfectly good [...]