Book Lamp is a new service that aims to help readers find new books that they might enjoy. Once you’ve registered on Book Lamp you can enter the title of a book you like or the name of an author
Video Search Engine Qwiki Is Now Available To The Public
Qwiki basically reads heavily Wikipedia-sourced articles out loud with photo and video accompaniments. Heralding itself as an “information experience,” Qwiki has about 3 million reference topics at the time of its launch and hundreds of thousands of users according to
Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live
Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search engines for any topic, along with new features the company hopes will …
The Bing-Facebook Alliance: Six Things You (and Google) Should Know
Bing and Facebook just made search social. Will your online life ever be the same again?
http://www.fastcompany.com/1694805/five-things-you-should-know-about-the-new- bing-facebook-features
Neotake – An Ebook Search Engine
If you’re in need of some new reading materials for your classes, but you don’t have money to spend on new books, search for some free ebooks on Neotake.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/neotake-ebook-search-engine.html
Search, Google, and Life: Sergey Brin – Google
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Five Real-time Search Engines for You to Try
Real-time search engines draw their results from popular social media services like Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. What makes real-time search results different from standard search results is that the most current links are given priority over older links. Real-time …
The 5 Most Advanced Search Engines On The Web
Search engines are internet encyclopedias that allow us to find and filter out relevant information. More advanced search engines will meet you halfway, by providing forms for advanced searches, better interpreting your queries, suggesting keywords, or finding unusual context. In …
3 Smart Visual Search Engines To Find The Images You Want
Searching for images has long been a neglected feature in common search engines. You had to rely on good tags, otherwise it was difficult to find just the right image. Tracing images across the net was out of the question. …
EyePlorer – Visually Explore Wikipedia
EyePlorer is a reference search engine that takes your original search term then displays related terms in a circle around your original search term. Clicking on each related term reveals more information from Wikipedia about that term. If the information …
Find Top Internet Searches In Your Niche With Google Insights
Today, I’m going to provide a brief overview of some of the coolest advanced features of Google Insights for Search that let you identify not only the top Internet searches, but it’ll let you isolate the top searches within your …
5 PowerPoint Search Engines To Seek Out Publicly Available Presentations
Some estimates put the number of presentations on the web close to 30 to 50 million. But we have to search them out. Using a general search engine with PPT as a filetype query is one way. But if you …
Need Math Help? Try Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting search engine because of the unique tasks it can perform. Wolfram Alpha has a function that will walk you through the steps of solving an equation. To use this function, enter your equation then click …