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For those of you not aware of it, Yes, Google does offer a Blog Search product. Is it any good ? depends on your definition of what a good Blog Search Engine is supposed to be.

For me, when I use a Blog Search Engine as oppose to a general web search engine, I want to hear what bloggers are saying about a particular topic, I want it to be relatively recent and most importantly, I want it to be highly relevant !

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I am a fan and heavy user of Google Desktop Search but have always been curios about Windows Desktop Search and wanted to do a comparison between the two. Well, the guys at Download Squad have beaten me to it and done a good job in comparing the latest offerings from Microsoft and Google.

They looked at a number of factors that are important from a user’s point of view including:

• Indexing options available
• Automatic categorisation of documents
• General Ease of Use

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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 Well, that excuse is no longer valid !

Whilst there are companies such as Autonomy which sells their enterprise search software for millions of dollars, there are plenty of FREE legitimate alternatives when it comes to enterprise search software now!

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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 !

You have always been able to limit your search within a site by using the (”site:”) operator (as discussed in a previous post), so there is nothing new here. However, this is one of those small things that can:

1. Help those people who DO NOT know about the existing site specific search functionality
2. Saves you the trouble of typing out the “site:” operator if it is your intention to site within the site

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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 are searching for and Google trying to be the end to all search experience.

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