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Zimbio allows users to make their own open topic portals and private extranets.
If there was any doubt: the world has definitely discovered the power of online social networking as a tool for generate content and guidance.
Take Zimbio, for instance, a site that in many respects are similar to the old About site.
Like About it presents topic sub-sites with articles, links to relevant sites and discussion forums. Hence these sub sites are more than plain web directories, but less than complete web sites. Their main function is to guide people to relevant information on the Net.
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The Firefox browser is increasingly popular, and no wonder; It’s secure, easy to use and easy to customize. There are thousands of Firefox extensions out there. Pandia has selected the top 5 search related extensions — add-ons that will change the way you search the web.
We know that a significant percentage of Pandia’s readers use Firefox. However, if you are new to Firefox, here is a short intro: It has a simple, user friendly interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and pop-up ads. It is really fast, it’s easy to install and it woks on Windows, Mac or Linux. Firefox also lets you import your favorites from other browsers.
Once you have Firefox up and running on your computer, it’s easy to add extensions. Go to the Tools menu and click on Extensions. This opens a window showing your current extensions. Click Get More Extensions in the bottom right corner and Firefox takes you to a page featuring top downloads and extensions by category. When you find something you like, each extension has an Install button. The installation takes seconds and when you restart Firefox, your new extension is active.
Here are our 5 favorite web search extensions.
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What the online community says about the Google YouTube purchase.
Google bought the YouTube Inc. for US$1.65 billion Monday.
YouTube lets people upload and watch videos world wide. The site has become immensely popular, not at least because of the arrival of broadband. Google already has its own video sharing site called Google Video, but that site has never really caught people’s imagination.
1.65 billion US dollars is a lot of money, and many commentators have asked themselves why Google has done this.
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AOL is testing a new version of its Google based search engine.
AOL may not be a major player on the search scene any more, but the company has still enough clout to merit some interest.
At the moment the company is redesigning its Google based search engine at a separate beta test preview site.
So what can AOL offer that Google doesn’t already deliver?
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Most people think that Google is a search engine. Think again! The search engine is how the Google empire started and even though the search engine is hugely popular, it is just one of 60 services offered by Google. Here are the top 5.
Gmail
Google’s email is free – like all the best things in life. Gmail has an uncluttered user interface and mails are retrieved on the basis of tags in stead of folders. This way a single email can have several tags and consequently belong to several categories. Very handy.
You get over two gigabytes of storage, a contacts system and integration with Google Calendar and Google Talk. And how does Google pay for all this? Well, text ads are included.
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What Pandia has been reading lately:
India’s First Local Search Engine Launched Today
It’s called ‘Guruji’ (Hindi version of ‘Master/Teacher’) and the domain name is www.guruji.com (Kichus Oct 13 2006)
Ten Sad Signs Your Writing is Web-Influenced
Thanks for inviting me to dinner Friday night. The lasagna you made was del.icio.us. (SEOMoz Oct 13 2006)
Yahoo! Will Now Support the NOODP (No Open Directory) Tag
Yahoo follows Google in helping webmasters stop the search engine from using the ODP description i search results (Searchrank Oct 11 2006)
India court accuses Google's Orkut of spreading hatred
News.com on Indian complaints about Orkut sub site (Oct 11 20069
Google Launches Teacher Training Program
The Google Teacher Academy is a pilot program designed to help K-12 educators (Stepforth Oct 12 2006)
Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese
Maybe Wordpress strict policy vis-a-vis the Chines has paid of (SE Journal Oct 13 2006)
Crunch, Click, Touchdown!
Yahoo Search Blog on the new Yahoo Jumpcut video making site arranging a commercial competition (Oct 13 2006)
Create your own search engine (an update to Live Search Macros)
Live Search Blog on building personalized search engines for any topic area of interest (Oct 11 2006)
Get out of my dreams. Get into my phone. Ask.com Mobile is here.
A brand-new service specifically designed for searching the web from your phone (Ask Blog Oct 12 2006)
Google Gdrive Client Leaked
The Google Gdrive for online file sharing is real and goes under the name of Platypus (Blogoscoped Oct 13 2006)
How Google Should Monetize YouTube With AdWords & AdSense
You could alienate the viewership by suddenly tacking 30 second ad spots at the beginning of every YouTube video (JenSense Oct 11 2006)
A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
Every piece of website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious (SEOMoz Oct 11 200&
Google launches classroom project
Google has started courting K-12 teachers with a resource guide on how to use its applications in the classroom. (CNET Oct 11 2006)
Better together: Docs & Spreadsheets
Google took Writely, the Web word processor, and integrated it with Google Spreadsheets. The result is Google Docs & Spreadsheets (Google Blog October 11 2006)
Google Blog for Mac Users
SE Journal on Google's approach to Apple Macintosh users (Oct 10 2006)
Google Docs joins word processor with spreadsheet
Google to present information-sharing software that combines the company's Web-based Google Spreadsheets with online word processor Writely (Reuters Oct 10 2006)
Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion
It is a rumor no more (CNN Oct 9 2006)
Google to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock
Deal leapfrogs Google into a leading role in a burgeoning Internet marketplace (MarketWatch Oct 9 2006)
Google's source code search gives hackers a field day
Google's new search engine can be used to search for software bug (Inquirer Oct 9 2006)
Publishers wary on Google archives
Google entry to news archive market could improve consumption of news archive information (IWR Oct 9 2006)
Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
Danny Sullivan is tired of all the talk about "natural search" (Oct 5 2006)
Publishers: Google Scan Plan Actually Helps Book Sales
Publishers are speaking up to say that Google Book Search has actually helped increase book sales. (eWeek Oct 6 2006)
Google Personalization Methods
This last week, Google published six new patent applications that look at personalization (SEO by the Sea Oct 9 2006)
Google Puts Lid on New Products
Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has. (LA Times Oct 6 via SEW)
Official Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security
Cracker posts anonymous message saying that Google's click-to-call project had been cancelled on Google's blog (SEW Oct 9 2006)
Wetpaint : social network wikis
Wetpaint is in the vain of Hubpages, fanpop, squidoo, and zimbio...basically create your own topic page. (LibraryClips Oct 6 2006)
Completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor
TechCrunch on the Wall Street Journal story (Oct 6 2006)
PureVideo.com : Meta Video Search Engine
Search Engine Journal on new metasearch engine for video (Oct 6 2006)
Worm automates Google AdSense fraud
Click-fraud menace spreads using IM (The Register Oct 6 2006)
