Tag Archives: search engine

TinEye Reverse Image Search

Posted on 9 August 2009 by Rick Mason

TinEye is an image search engine with a twist:  you provide it with an image, and it returns a list of websites utilizing that image. I can quickly think of a few really good uses of this service: You have … Continue reading →

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Feedmil

Posted on 18 May 2009 by Rick Mason

Feedmil is a search engine for RSS feeds.  It does this specific task very, very well.  Search for feeds relating to any keywords you wish, and modify your results using a set of slides that emphasize/de-emphasize words that show up … Continue reading →

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Wolfram Alpha

Posted on 16 May 2009 by Rick Mason

Wolfram|Alpha is a new type of internet resource that has just gone “live”.  Many are calling it a new type of “search engine”, which it technically is, but it isn’t a search engine in the way we are used to … Continue reading →

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Library Books in your Search Engine

Posted on 22 January 2009 by Rick Mason

Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine is an article in The Guardian.  It is a good overview of the broader issues surrounding the OCLC Licensing problem, and is written for the general reader (i.e. this … Continue reading →

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Transcribe Dewey and the Gang

Posted on 18 December 2008 by Rick Mason

Unshelved is having a transcription party, and we all are invited! Bill and Gene have installed the ohnorobot comic search engine, and all that remains to make every Unshelved comic searchable by character, quote, or topic is for everyone to … Continue reading →

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2008 Presidential Election Search Engine

Posted on 9 October 2008 by Rick Mason

The 2008 Presidential Election Search Engine is a Google Custom Search Engine created by the University of Kansas Library. It is a great resource in that one can find the needles of information in the haystack of campaign rhetoric. found … Continue reading →

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Presidential Primary Results

Posted on 9 January 2008 by Rick Mason

I am a bit of a political junkie… and it generally won’t spill over onto this blog. However, one resource that I have found very interesting when examining Ohio and New Hampshire results has been Google Maps coverage of the … Continue reading →

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Wikia Launched

Posted on 7 January 2008 by Rick Mason

Wikia, the search engine designed around the concept of wikis, has been launched in alpha.  This means that a) it isn’t going to work as well as anyone wants, and b) no fair comparing it to Google et. al., except … Continue reading →

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Libraries, Internet, and Generation Y

Posted on 30 December 2007 by Rick Mason

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report (Pdf here) that you should read. Really. It will likely challenge assumptions that we make regarding who uses libraries and why. Here are a few of their findings as … Continue reading →

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LibWorm

Posted on 9 September 2007 by Rick Mason

LibWorm is a fantastic resource for those who are interested in libraries and blogs.  It is a search engine for library-related blog content, drawn from 1400 RSS feeds.

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The Right Way to Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles

Posted on 7 August 2007 by Rick Mason

The Right Way to Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles is the title of a Search Engine Land post by Durova, a Wikipedia administrator. Not only is it an intersting read, it allows one to see how those who help manage Wikipedia view … Continue reading →

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Google Product Chart

Posted on 9 July 2007 by Rick Mason

If you want to be, um, whelmed by both the number of Google products that exist, as well as how they are interconnected, check out this organizational chart from Zorgloob.  Clicking on an icon takes you to a page with … Continue reading →

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Google Custom Search Engine

Posted on 27 June 2007 by Rick Mason

The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) has just been made easier to set up and use. The brief summary: create a page of links to web resources you feel are useful and appropriate for a given topic. Via Google, you … Continue reading →

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Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft

Posted on 27 June 2007 by Rick Mason

This isn’t directly related to libraries, and even the indirect aspect only applies to larger libraries, or libraries within larger institutions, but I thought there were some points of interest in this blog post from an anti-Google blog. Of special … Continue reading →

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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest

Posted on 3 June 2007 by Rick Mason

Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading →

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Pipl

Posted on 29 May 2007 by Rick Mason

Pipl is a search engine geared towards finding people, but it casts a wider net than other people search tools. It searches social networking sites, job sites, and blogs. As you might guess, there are usually a lot of results … Continue reading →

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eTools.ch

Posted on 31 March 2007 by Rick Mason

eTools.ch is a search engine with a couple of interesting twists… It is a meta-search engine, meaning it doesn’t do its own crawling and indexing of web pages, it sends your search to 10 other search engines, then sorts the … Continue reading →

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MasterKey

Posted on 2 March 2007 by Rick Mason

MasterKey is an interesting prototype of a new meta-search engine.  I like search tools that generate metadata (in the form of subjects, authors, etc. to narrow one’s search) on the fly.  Vivisimo was the first of these that I encountered, … Continue reading →

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LibraryFind

Posted on 31 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Wow… library blog land is abuzz tonight with the release of LibraryFind… and it does look fantastic! It is an open source federated search engine that is fully customizable, and the price is right. Check out the Oregon State University … Continue reading →

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U.S. Schools Search

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

As part of their real estate search area, Yahoo has debuted a School Search feature that provides information and reports on schools throughout the country. from Search Engine Land

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