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Google search by date: sign me up

by Mathew on April 24, 2008 · View Comments

I know it’s a small thing, and maybe not worth a huge amount of noise — but I have to say that I hope TechCrunch is right and Google is going to roll out default search that includes sorting by date. I don’t know why they haven’t added that as a default feature by now. [...]

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Jimmy “I invented Wikipedia” Wales gave a demo of the latest version of Wikia Search tonight, at the Social Media Marketing conference in Long Beach, and there is a new alpha site that you can play around with — if you don’t mind a page that yells “Beware!” at you in red type, and throws [...]

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Yahoo makes search results delicious

by Mathew on January 19, 2008 · View Comments

Mike Arrington says that Yahoo has started integrating shared bookmarks from Delicious (which it now owns) into its search results, which is an interesting move — you can see an example here. Underneath each search result, it tells you how many people saved that page as a bookmark in their Delicious account. It doesn’t seem [...]

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Wikia Search: Let’s give it a break

by Mathew on January 7, 2008 · View Comments

I’m generally in favour of bashing those who need to be bashed, and I definitely like taking the wind out of the Web 2.0 windbags (you know who you are), but I think the blogosphere is being a little hard on Wikia Search. Mike Arrington says that it’s a letdown, Allen Stern at Centernetworks says [...]

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Is Google crowdsourcing? Not quite

by Mathew on November 29, 2007 · View Comments

As described by Phil Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped and at Google Operating System — and apparently first spotted by Haochi at Googlified — Google is experimenting with a customized search function that allows users to “vote” search results up or down, or even suggest sites that match their search better than the ones Google has [...]

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