Have you ever been frustrated with your corporate portal search engine ? or worse still, been wondering why your company doesn’t offer any search engine for corporate information ? One of the excuses used by the IT department has always been cost, cost of software license being the main problem. Well, that excuse is [...]

Have you seen the new Google Search within Search feature ? Google has updated its Web Search so that when you search for certain sites (Wikipedia, Nytimes and a number of others) a search box is presented along with the standard results to allow you to search within the site right there and then [...]

When it comes to basic dictionary definition lookup for words, Web users are spoilt for choices. Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, heck Google even provides a definition link after you do a web search and do the word lookup for you without you telling it! I guess it’s there just in case you don’t know what you [...]

It’s been a while since Google came up with any innovation around their main search offerings (in fact, I can’t remember what has ever changed since I started using Google search other than some re-arrangement of the results page). On one hand it is a testament to how good Google Search is, on the [...]

ChaCha.com has an interesting spin on the whole idea of search. It thinks that part of the problem of searchers not being able to find the contents that they are looking for is the searchers themselves. In another words, they don’t know how to look for it.
I tend to agree with it after seeing [...]

The launch of the highly anticipated Wikia search engine has received unprecedented coverage on the Internet. The general consensus around the web is that it has been a disappointment and even a “Complete Letdown.” considering the sister site that it evolved from Wikipedia was such a huge success. My brief personal experience with it [...]