Posts tagged “search”

New application: Key Terms Search

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A very simple example of the new BOSS Key Terms API: enter a search query, and see the relevant words and phrases: Search Key Terms Some examples: perl “Dave Grohl” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

Write your own search engine: Hack event in London tonight!

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Are you around London this evening? Fancy learning how to leverage Yahoo’s new BOSS search API? BOSS – Build (your) Own Search Service is Yahoo’s new API which allows you to build a search engine based on our systems. It is one of the first steps to make Yahoo! much more open for you to [...]

My favourite Safari Extension

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Inquisitor is a fantastic search add-on for Safari, and it’s recently been updated to version 3. Basically, it enhances the Safari search box by suggesting results and allowing searches on sites other than Google. Pretty essential, I would say. Inquisitor

Search safely

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Yahoo search has now integrated McAfee’s SiteAdvisor into it’s search engine which means dodgy sites serving up spam and malware are flagged up: SearchScan – Search with confidence at Yahoo!

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Preview

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As part of Yahoo’s plan to open up their search technology to external developers, a new tool called SearchMonkey is now being previewed. SearchMonkey allows you to add data services that can be used to present richer, more useful search results. Sign up for more information: Yahoo! SearchMonkey: Oooh ooh oooh

Useless Mac Applications #1 : Sherlock

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Bundled with Mac OS 8.5 – 10.4, the Sherlock search tool became less and less useful as time went by. Apple claimed that Sherlock was “dramatically better than standard web browsers at retrieving and displaying some of the most practical and useful information available on the internet” without ever explaining why. The US-centric content was [...]

Monitoring your online presence with Google Alerts

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If you are interested in monitoring your online presence, or simply for a laugh, you can be alerted whenever your name is mentioned on a website. Here’s how: visit Google Alerts enter your name within double quotes in the Search terms box. e.g. “glen scott” enter your e-mail address in the Your email box Now, [...]

Yahoo! Opens up Search Platform

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This open search platform enables 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. There are a number of layers and capabilities that we have built into the platform, but our intent is clear — present users with richer, more useful search results so that they can complete their tasks more efficiently [...]

Search engine snippets, part 2

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This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Search engine snippets. My site has now got a meta description tag and Google and Yahoo have both picked up on it: Google: Yahoo: Google shows just the content of the meta description tag, whilst Yahoo also adds some content from the top of my blog.