Internet News

On a wing and some glue by Will Doolittle, Globe and Mail (Nov 21) Sometimes there is good news. A couple in New York State nursed a monarch butterfly back to health and repaired its damaged wing t...

Yasni: People Search, Stephen Arnold, Beyond Search (November 14, 2008) Yasni - another people search that searches across wide variety of resources. "yasni a people search engine, just launched in...

How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management: Three Predictions by Silver Oliver, FUMSI (Oct 2008) Semantic Web means adding structure - making the web of unstructured data more accessib...

Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch (Nov 12) Microsoft Live went social. "It’s now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and conte...

RefSeek says this about itself - "RefSeek (r?f-sēk) is a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches mo...

Yahoo Brings “Glue Pages” To The US by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Nov 20) Sounds interesting -- "Glue Pages are essentially structured search results, pulling content on particular queries ...

Wikipedia gears up for flood of video and photo files by Rafe Needleman, Webware (Nov 19) Plans afoot at Wikimedia (Wikipedia, WIkinews, Wikibooks) to have video. "With the more aggressive support ...

Why Google Must Die by John Dvorak, PC Magazine (Nov 17) Strong words from John Dvorak about search engine optimization practices and consequence. "By reverse-engineering the way Google operates, S...

Win A New Car! Live Search Offers Canadian Searchers Prizes With “Big Ticket Search” by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land (Nov 20) "Ars Technica reports Microsoft is now trying a new way to incent...

Truevert - vert means green in French - and this is a "green search engine". " From the about page: "All searches are done from the point of view of environmental and social concern. The results ar...