Category: Search Engines

Google to Digitize Historical Newspapers

Earlier this month, Google announced that it is partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. From the announcement: You’ll be able to explore this historical treasure trove by searching the Google News Archive or by using the timeline feature after searching Google News… Not only will you be able to …

Microsoft Closes the Book on Digitization

From Microsoft’s Live Search blog: Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes. This also means that …

WisBlawg Finally Listed on Technorati

After several years of trying to get WisBlawg listed on Technorati, I think that I can finally do so. For some reason it was inadvertently marked as spam. Technorati is a search engine for blogs and other user generated content. They also track statistics and trends throughout the blogosphere. Here then is my claim to …

SearchMe, A New Visual Search Engine

Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for alerting me to a neat new visual search engine called SearchMe.com. It is currently in beta. As you enter your search, categories appear across the top which you can click to just view results in that category. Or, you can search all and see all results. Results are …