Scour: The Social Search Engine that Pays Users
Jul 14, 2008 Technology
Scour is many things. It’s a search engine aggregator which displays search results from different and popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. It’s also a social networking site where users are allowed to rate give comments to the search results. Think of it as a Digg style search engine. Lastly, Scour is also a web service that rewards its users for using the service.... Continue Reading
Tags: Google, msn, rank, scour, search-engine, Social Networking, social voting, Yahoo
Archive your IM Messages Online Using Dexrex
Jun 20, 2008 Tips N Tricks
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Tags: dexrex, google talk, IM, IM extension, sms, Yahoo
Powerset: The Natural Language Search Engine
Apr 26, 2008 Technology
How many times have you searched Google or Yahoo using a phrase or a sentence and returned a search result of a page with just a bunch of keywords related to your search and not the real context that you want? Sometimes you’ll end up browsing the second or third page of the search results just to find what you are really looking for. This is why most people agree that the Google page ranking system is losing its relevance. Given this, most people still use the first page of Google search results as their primary resource of information. Low ranking pages with relevant content still loses the battle in the page ranking system Google has devised. Google’s reliance on keywords in their search algorithm doesn’t entirely mean that all the search results they are providing are totally irrelevant. Sometimes it just takes more time to find what you are really looking for in the Google search pages, especially for novice and average users.... Continue Reading
Tags: Google, google search powerset, search-engine, searching, web search engine, Yahoo
Ecocho: The Green Search Engine
Apr 20, 2008 Cool Sites
Ecocho is an eco-friendly search engine that promises to grow up to two trees for every 1000 searches made using their site. The green search engine team claims that using Ecocho will not alter or slow down their search. It allows you to search between two search engine giants (Google and Yahoo) who have given their support to the Ecocho project.... Continue Reading
Tags: carbon cycle, carbon offset, ecocho, environment, Google, search-engine, web search engine, website, Yahoo
Yahoo CAPTCHA Cracked By Russians
Feb 1, 2008 Technology
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart), is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. For example, humans can read distorted text as the one shown below, but current computer programs can’t:... Continue Reading
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