Qwika is a new search engine that lets you search the Wikipedia. Pandia takes a closer look at the online encyclopedia. 
Trexy.com remembers the search trails of previous searches, helping you to get back to that page you know were relevant, but cannot seem to find again.The butler has left the building. Search engine Ask Jeeves is now to be known as Ask.com.
Gary Price of Resourceshelf reports that Ask Jeeves has changed name to Ask, following in the footsteps of European Ask sites.
Posted on Wednesday 1 March 2006
Google adds web site creator
The new Google page creator lets people set up their own web sites in minutes.
Google has added a new tool to its formidable arsenal: the Google Page Creator.
Like similar services offered elsewhere (see for instance Apple's .Mac service) the Page Creator lets users design their own web pages without having to know any HTML and without having to upload the pages to a separate host.
You design your pages online using a regular web browser and Google will host the pages for you on their servers.
Pandia has tested the service and can indeed confirm that it works in the way Google says it will.
Posted on Sunday 26 February 2006
National Archives and Google to offer historic films online
Friday the National Archives of the United States and Google announced that they are launching of a pilot program to digitize historic films from the National Archives and make them available online for free.
The project aims to enable both researchers and the general public to access a collection of historic movies and documentaries from the National Archives. The movies will be available both via Google Video and the National Archives website.
Posted on Sunday 26 February 2006
Duplicate Content - Penalize Me, Please
If you reproduce an article published elsewhere on the Web, will the search engines punish you? No, that would not make much sense, Richard Keir argues in this article.
By Pandia Guest Writer Richard Keir
Building sites is an interesting thing to do. If you really enjoy having a bad time. No, actually, I love all this stuff, but I'm unable to figure out just what the search engines are doing.
However, I have decided that it really doesn't matter. Not because it doesn't matter, but because it's nearly impossible to keep on top of the changes and still do anything.
Posted on Wednesday 22 February 2006
Advanced search made easy with MsFreckles
MsFreckles is an online search service, which offers an easy way to make professional searches for the ordinary internet user. The sites uses features from Google but makes them extremely easy to use, just drop, drag and click.
The home page is good looking, even charming, and easy to use. It consists 16 boxes and each box gives you access to a search feature. Among the features at Ms Freckles you find blog search, thematic search (news, sports, shopping and more), and search within a domain in addition to regular web search.
Posted on Friday 17 February 2006
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