Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category

EPIC 2014 – “The Googlezon video”

Monday, August 27th, 2007

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news?

If you have not seen this yet, have a look.. quite amusing;

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

Create your “own” search engine with Google..?

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

As we know Google are very good at making people work for them for free and they’ve done it again. You can now create your “own” search engine searching only your topics of interest and with your look and feel and even “tags”/filters.. I created one to test it and it searches Java resources… my link is;
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009593767841622448699%3Aejcfp_zyjty

Don’t remember the name or artist of a song?

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Just tap it!!  http://www.songtapper.com can recognise song names by you tapping it with a key on your computer! Its online, free and worked for me – twice! (and everyone knows I don’t have a musical bone in my body)

Cool Marketing Initiative

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Those marketeers at Sensis has some great ideas every now and then;

www.searchforcleanerair.org

Idea: for every search you perform using the search engine, the company will donate money to clean 100 grams of Co2 – which equals the emission from running your refridgerator for 12 hours .

CitySearch is live!

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

CitySearch, Australias second largest entertainment portal, which I spent a long time being the architect for, has finally launched. Go to CitySearch

Great idea – find similar sites

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

This site is very interesting;

http://similicio.us