Starting Monday, we will be tackling one of the most vexing questions in Search:
What  is  a  Search  Engine ?
Monday: Staring the discussion off will be Nitin Karandikar (The Software Abstractions Blog), and the Big Question: “What is a Search Engine?”
Tuesday: Kaila Colbin of VortexDNA looks at things from the opposite angle:  “What is Not a [...]

Thanks to the Alpha Doggs from Network World for this one! It’s not molecular as in a tiny search engine, its a search engine that searches for molecules on the Internet - like CO2, for instance. ChemxSeer can even tell the difference between the “He” in helium or as a pronoun.
It may take [...]

Here are four very interesting financial search engines:
Search Hedge Funds; InfoNGEN; Market Simplified; and PuzzR.

SearchHedgeFunds is a vertical financial search engine designed solely for the hedge fund industry. This alternative search engine is an interesting development in the world of advanced search engines and is the first of a number of products planned [...]

Hakia announced several new features this week. Let’s take a look at a few of them:

After I downloaded the new hakia toolbar, I typed in my search query as a question.
Note: hakia wants to know how it did; well, it found the following page and the new highlighter feature highlighted the relevant section, and placed [...]

Our Alternative Search Engine of the Day today is PiciShare from flickr. And since it’s an image search engine (it only seaches through flickr’s database), then I think we’ll tell the story in pictures!

Here’s the homepage.  And here are the Sort By: Options
Below are the Search Results.
 And since it’s Powered By flickr, when you click [...]