LostInTechnology

What is Google Social Search?

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Arpit.

Google Social Search is an experimental search tool recently introduced by Google. This tools lets you search for relevant public web content from people in your social circle. For example, I searched for “Google Docs” and got the following results from the web contents published by my contacts.

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60 Search Engine Alternatives to Google

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

When it comes to search engines, Google is the first one that comes to our minds. There seems to be nothing it can’t find. Okay, except for the meaning of life and other important questions, perhaps. But mostly it can find everything that inhabits the Internet. “Are there alternatives?”, one would ask. Just like children ask their parents, if they can find their recommended amount of B vitamins anywhere else than in spinach.

Well, yes there are. Even if it sounds impossible that there are websites that can do something better than the praised search engine that invented a verb, they exist. At least 60, as a matter of fact. Of course, Google is able to help you with music, photos, shopping, movies, videos and so on, but other services can do it more efficiently.

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5 Great Flickr Search Engines

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by srikanth.

Flickr is the hub for some stunning, beautiful, unusual, pleasing, scary(sometimes) and fabulous pieces of photography. Though Flickr search is fine, it might not always lead you to the exact image you were looking for.

Here we present 5 Flickr search engines which are powered by the Flickr API to help you navigate and explore Flickr in a better way.

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Search Engine Aggregator Katapulco!

Posted on 04. Jun, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Recently, I ran across a new search engine called Katapulco! I know that search engines aren’t anything new these days, but this site is more than just a regular search engine. It is a search engine aggregator.

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