The Ultimate Insult » Search Engines

Behind the scenes of a Google logo

Paul — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:46:22 +0000

I was playing with the IMAGE ZOOM firefox addon today and decided to use it on the Google logo (found on top of search results page, not Google home page). Well, when I zoomed in and out, I saw the “items behind the curtain”. they are essentially icons used in the search results (arrows are for rating website when logged into your google account). Neat, but that’s about it…

Google Image Labeler

Scott — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:48:10 +0000

I know that using the Google Image Labeler only benefits Google, but damn it all, they made helping them addicting.

Who’s afraid of Google?

Scott — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:36:34 +0000

An interesting read from The Economist: Who’s afraid of Google?

Natural Language & Miss South Carolina’s (Miss Teen USA 2007) Statement

Paul — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:20:07 +0000

Powerset, a new yet-to-be-released natural language search engine just posted their work on “parsing and indexing…the hardest corpus [they] could find: Miss South Carlolina’s response to the question, ‘Recent polls have shown that a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a map. Why do you think this is?’ ”

If you are curious about Powerset, here are some Powerset news clippings

Alternative Search Engines

Scott — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:58:05 +0000

Check out the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines as picked by a website I’ve never heard of before. Still, it’s a nice list.

SideKiq

Paul — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:16:23 +0000

I rarely write about new search engines since they are pretty much a dime a dozen these days, but SideKiq not only has meta-bility searching (has several traditional and vertical search engines, including Ask.com’s AskX), but also has a great unique layout.