Sproose announced the launch of a Digg-like element to their video search engine. Users can now vote on video results at Sproose, which will have a direct impact on the rank of those video search results. The look is very similar to Digg, allowing users to click an “I like it” vote button, as well […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mike Grehan spotted Google testing a new feature that appears to enable you to add URLs of your choice to particular searches. Mike searched on “digital cameras,” and at the bottom of the results up came a message from Google that looked like this:
Technorati has relaunched today, and I’m on a short day, so I can’t dive in to play with it in depth. Below, I’ll recap what some others are saying. add a few off-the-cuff remarks on blog search in general, plus comment on how Technorati continues to be masterful in working its own pages to the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
The del.icio.us blog announced an upgrade to their Firefox extension that enables the easy bookmarking of pages. The changes include: Searching and browsing your bookmarks can be done directly in your Firefox browser You can edit your bookmarks within Firefox You can define which tags to display in the Firefox toolbar also For a full […]
Sproose is another social search engine where you get to vote for your favourite websites/pages, and to that extent it’s very similar to previous social search engines that I’ve looked at recently. It’s got the double ‘o’ in the name which always helps, and uses terminology that sounds familiar, such as ‘Knowledge Rank technology’. However, […]
Furl, a personal web-page clipping and sharing service that I reviewed several years ago, has a streamlined new look, and is also faster. Looksmart has also made it easier to create and find topics to help you organized your cache of saved web pages, and has improved the browser buttons and toolbar used to save […]
Boxxet is a new service which combines aspects of computer automation with community and social commentary and ranking systems to create “box sets” of web based content for specific topics. It’s an interesting idea—sort of a multimedia directory of links to web, news and blog content, photos, forums, online bookmarks and “stuff,” products available for […]
Yahoo’s Delicious has rolled out a new Tagometer allowing people to better bookmark your pages plus see how they have been tagged. In addition, it shows the number of others who have save a page — reminiscent of Digg’s Digg Count button.