Posts Tagged ‘search’

TweeterSearch: Firefox Custom Search to find your friends on Twitter

Corvida from SheGeeks was looking for a custom search to Twitter earlier, so I thought I’d knock one up for her. It’s not tremendously difficult to do, and I might post how to do it on AskOwen sometime soon, but in the meantime, TweeterSearch is available for people to download,...

Microsoft heading towards Paid Search

I posted a couple of weeks ago how you can earn cash from searching the web and it seems like Microsoft wants to head down in this direction too. They’re rolling out a new feature called Live Search Cashback which allows you to earn cashback from items you purchase after...

Technorati and the Wind of Change

Technorati‘s home page looks very different today and it’s thanks to the introduction of Technorati Topics. (On a sideline, the search is still pretty messed up, try running a lawyer search or blogger search and you’ll see what I mean). The new? functionality is described in more detail on the...

Google makes Microsoft change Vista

Interesting news today about how Microsoft is having to modify Vista to make it easier for third parties to deploy their own desktop search products on their flagship operating system. This will be part of SP1 for Vista and should be ready to be released through their normal software distribution...

Google CodeSearch

Ohh .. just noticed that Google have launched a new service that allows you to search code Public Source Code on the web *Chuckle* It was interesting to see my name on some bits of code floating around the web. Seriously, if you’re looking for any sample code around a...

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