Google - the king of search

Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.87, 7.98 and 3.41 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.68 percent of U.S. searches.

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What is Google trying to do ?

What is Google trying to do here ? Suggesting a search somewhere else ?

Trying to help competitors ?

See the Try your search on Yahoo, Ask ...

Search engines and privacy

CNET makes a comparison of how the search engines handle privacy. Big boys Google and Yahoo retain your data even after 18 months.

Gmail Search Power Tips!

Search on your Gmail like a pro with these power tips! Ofcourse you could use the search options to do these, but learning the "keyword" options is plain faster and little more powerful especially when you want to find mails between particular dates.

There are few keywords that you can use in the search box you see above (appears when you load Gmail)

from:
to:
subject:
label:
after:
before:
in:
is:
has:

For the above, you could provide the following options as below

from:

from: {email address}
from: {name}

to:

to : {email address}
to : {name}

subject:

subject: {subject}

after:

after: {date in any known format} - For example : March 25, 10/10/2006, etc

before:

before: {date in any known format} - For example : March 25, 10/10/2006, etc

in:

in: inbox (Searches Inbox)
in: chat (Searches Chat)
in: drafts (Searches Drafts)
in: spam (Searches spam)
in: trash (Searches Trash)
in: anywhere (Searches All the Mail including Trash & Spam)


is:

is: starred (Searches Starred Mail)
is: sent (Searches Sent Mail)
is:read (Searches Read Mail)
is:unread (Searches Unread Mail)

has:

has:attachment (Checks for mail with Attachment)

label:

label: {label_name} (Checks in mail with Label name)

Other general options include

{search_keyword} and - {search_keyword} which means search for {search_keyword} or doesn't have {search_keyword} in your mail


Example:

Find all mail which was addressed to techflock before 19th Dec 2006 and After 1st November 2006 and has networking but not basic in the mail with IMP as label

Your search query would be

before:2006/12/19 after:2006/11/01 to:techflock label:IMP in:anywhere networking -basic

I use these filters to re-label (or delete) old mails. You could create Filters too... however, Google doesn't have the option to use before: after: keywords in your filter.

Wikiasari - the search engine

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is preparing to launch a search engine. The Times of London reports that the new search engine will be called Wikiasari, combining the Hawaiian word "wiki" which means quick with the Japanese "asari," which means rummaging search.

Wales is basing Wikiasari (which Techcrunch reports had initially been billed as Wikisearch) as an improvement upon the traditional search engine method. Sites like Google rely on computer-based algorithms to determine which search results are most relevant to your query. Wikipedia is based on a million trained monkeys (that'd be you) constantly updating an online encyclopedia. Why not apply that method to search results?

The search engine will be open source, and the index will be available under a GFDL.

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OpenSearch Plugins for Firefox

If you are using Firefox 2, you can add your own Search Engine plugin to the Search Engine List by defining a OpenSearch based xml file

See more on Opensearch Plugin for Firefox

Digg Torrents through Google!

Search for torrents or lyrics through Google's custom search engine API

Digg Torrents!

Read about Google Custom Search Engine

Gotapi - the AJAX technical reference

Gotapi lets you search technical references of various languages through an AJAX interface.

Handy! Go here

Qunu - expert people service

Qunu is a search engine for people. We use instant messaging to connect -- in real time -- people who have (for now) software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help

Check more on Qunu

Google Custom Search engine

Google has launched a customizable search engine. Both corporates and individuals can sign up and tailor the search engine to index sites & prioritize results. Google Adsense has been integrated with the customizable search engine as well.

Jump to custom search engine!

Give me back my Google

Givemebackmygoogle strips all the sponsored links that you get from google searches.

Retrevo - the amazing Electronics search engine

Retrevo, a Alloy Ventures backed company is a exclusive consumer electronics search engine. See the images and test it out - Its neat.

SearchMash - From Google ?

Searchmash is a new search engine which is apparently started by Google. Has a rather simple interface - Have a look at the features here

Best Mobile Video Content

Where do you search for the best mobile content ?

Mobunga is a community driven site designed to help video fans find the best mobile videos on the web. There are different of formats for iPod, Phones and PSPs and plenty of categories too.

Check it out