Here are some selected articles from Pandia from the last couple of months. Go to www.pandia.com/sew/ for the online version of our news service.
Innovative metasearch from LeapFish
LeapFish is a relatively new metasearch engine with a click-free search interface that delivers search results as you type: Instantaneous results as each character of a search term is entered.
You don’t need to click the search button, then wait and click it again after you have refined your search. The innovative interface saves time by eliminating clicks and keystrokes.
Semantic movie search engine Jinni (get invites!)
Jinni is nothing like IMDB. You don’t use it to find facts about movies and actors, you use it to find movies to watch — movies that are right for your mood and your taste. Jinni’s recommendations are based on semantic search technology developed through the Movie Genome Project.
The Movie Genome is an ongoing project where the Jinni team works with the Jinni community to map aspects of movies and TV shows. The Movie Genome powers the search, recommendations, taste types and more on Jinni.
123people search engine adds national sites outside the US
Deep web search engine adds British, German, Austrian, French, Swiss and Spanish sites.
Learn pay-per-click advertising at the PPC summit
Pandia sponsor PPC Summit arranges new workshops on online text advertising in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
Google delivers ads based on your personal profile
Google starts delivering ads based on a profile of your personal interests.
88 great people search tools
Tools for finding people online, including People search engines, Email search engines, Global search tools, Paid search tools, Metasearch people finders, Education search tools for finding classmates etc., Biographies, Social web search tools, Genealogy search tools, Public records, Missing persons’ directories, Home pages, Celebrities and Dating
Microsoft learns from Ask.com. Ask.com doesn’t.
Microsoft may be on the right track with the next incarnation of Live Search, for the time being called the Kumo search engine. Kumo does, for instance, copy some of Ask.com’s best features, features Ask has — alas — abandoned.
Internet literacy for parents, teachers and young people
How about a one-stop-shop that offers technical know-how for parents and teachers who want to teach internet literacy to young people? The Council of Europe offers an extensive handbook for free.
The content is devided into 25 fact sheets on themes such as searching for information, spam, chat, games, creativity, privacy, security, social networking, Web 2.0 and becoming an active e-citizen.
Each fact sheet contains a general introduction to the theme, ethical conciderations, best practice examples and links to further information.
The 5 best online bookmarking services
You probably browse the web from home, at work and possibly on your smartphone. If you do, storing bookmarks in the browser can be annoying and counterproduvtive.
You need an online bookmarking tool to have easy access to all your favorite web sites regardless of which device you use to get online. Here are Pandia’s top 5 social bookmarking services.
Top 5 iPhone search apps
Search has gone mobile. Smart phones with large screens, decent keyboards, and wi-fi connection finally makes it fun to surf the web from a hand held device. But still, the browser window is rather small. Entering a query and browsing the search results in Safari is cumbersome.
Web search apps make this easier and many of them integrate multiple search engines and services. I have tested iPhone web search applications and reviewd our five favorites.
Test True Knowledge semantic search
True Knowledge is not a regular search engine. It is a semantic search engine that answers questions based on an index of 129,498,414 facts about 5,112,422 things.
An example of how True Knowledge works is the question “Is the koala bear a bear?”. The answer to this question is no. How True Knowledge reasoned to understand the question and provide the answer?
Top 5 Semantic Search Engines
“Semantic” is a word with a magic ring to it in search engine circles.
The way it’s hyped makes you suspect it is the second coming of search. Hypes make me skeptical and I have been biding my time, waiting for the technology to mature.
Now the time has come and I’m glad to present the top 5 semantic search engines.
How to tell the search engines about duplicate content
If you have several versions of the same page or many pages with the same content, tell the search engines about it with the new canonical tag!
The search engines really don’t like to find the same content on several web pages. The main problem is for them to determine what is the “primary” page. Now you tell them.
All-in-one portal for search engine and SEO research
If you have followed Pandia for some time, you might be familiar with Pandia Search Engine Detective, our one stop shop for search engine intelligence. This useful collection of links to all kinds of search engine and SEO information is now updated with new categories and links, so take a look!
Can the search engines tell who you are?
It is still difficult for search engines to exactly pinpoint your identity as a user, but by using various techniques they can learn a lot about you. Should you be worried about your privacy?
Ixquick thinks so, and is no longer recording your IP address.
Find free images with visual Flickr search
Flickr is an image sharing social network with billions of photos. A lot of these photos can be used for free and many are of high quality. But how do you find out which Flickr photos are free and how do you sort out the best one?
Multicolor Search Lab is a free tool with easy to use visual interface that lets you browse the best free photos on Flickr and find the one you want.
A lot of new search tools in Pandia Powersearch
Pandia has updated its all-in-one collection of search tools.
The updated reflects the new trends of search. Tools searching social sites like Facebook and Twitter are on the rise.
Really easy organic SEO
If you’ve been following Pandia for a while, you know we are great believers in organic SEO: If you want plenty of visitors, make your web site really useful for the kind of readers you want to attract, don’t fret about your page rank and definitely don’t waste much time tweaking your tags to please the search engines.
Here is a short and easy guide to organic SEO for all you busy bloggers and web site owners out there: Watch a short video, click through a slide show and memorise the five essentials for good organic SEO.
VisualWikipedia
VisualWikipedia puts knowledge in context. It contains the same information as Wikipedia, but presents the information differently, more visually. This way it is easier to navigate the huge amounts of information.
My favorite feature is that each article is followed by a tag cloud and often a mind map detailing how the subject of the article relates to other concepts
3 easy ways to make a customized search engine
Returning visitors are an important part of a sucessful web site. And if you give them something special, some boon that your competitors don’t offer, chanses are they will come back.
Chances are that building your blog or web site and researching your topic you have developed competencies that your users could benefit from. Why not offer them a customized search engine that draws on those competencies?
Here are introductions to three great tools for making a customized search engine. They are all easy to use and embed. Find the one that meets your needs and get cracking.
Find the best airlines and airports
If, like us, you travel a lot, you know that the quality of the airline and the services and amenities of the airports make a huge difference. In fact, these are among the things that distinguish a good journey from a bad one.
But making the right choice is not easy. After all, you don’t want to gather first hand experiences with all the bad airlines and airports before you learn to avoid them.
Luckily, there are people out there that gather these kinds of experiences and use them to review and rank airlines and airports. We have written a post on some of the best online search sites for this kind of information.
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