March 7, 2010
- Surf Canyon
Don't let the name fool you, Surf Canyon was voted best search engine on the 2010 readers choice awards. The search results include images, audio, news and maps. (…)
March 6, 2010
- Blockwild.com
See what's happening in your neigborhood. Blockwild is an excellent blending of Google Maps and an announcement database.
March 2, 2010
- Collecta-Real Time Search
Twitter just opened their Firehose (access to the full stream of tweets) and Collecta.com was one of the apps chosen to receive this data. (…)
February 19, 2010
- Icurrent.com - Update
Icurrent.com is a must have tool for anyone following industry news. I received the update to the new Google Shopper App before it hit the Android forums. (…)
February 18, 2010
- Factual - Finding TED Speakers
I revisit Factual.com to find a great searchable table on TED Conference Speakers. Factual makes it easy to search for David Pogue, one of my favorite speakers.
February 17, 2010
- Zakta.com- 2010 Olympics Showcase
A great search engine got even better this week. Zakta.com introduced the 2010 Winter Olympics Showcase. (…)
February 16, 2010
- Google City Tours
Google Labs has released Google City Tours. Enter an address and Google maps brings up a tour. Good idea but not well executed. I compare it with Bing Maps
February 15, 2010
- Bing Maps- Double Yowza Rating
Bing maps gets even better with more functions. (…)
February 12, 2010
- Origin Of Emmy
Pop Quiz TST fans. Know the origin of "Emmy" from the Emmy Awards. The video below tells all and gives you an insight into 3 search engines I previously reviewed on TST. (…)
February 8, 2010
- Bing Visual Search-2nd Visit
I revisit Bing Visual Search to find 2010 Winter Olympic Events and 2010 Winter Olympic Athletes added to Bing's Visual Database.
January 30, 2010
- DuckDuckGo Part 3
DuckDuckGo.com, one of my favorite search engines has added Zero Click Info to its arsenal of weapons. Gallop, don't run to this site
January 26, 2010
- Kngine.com
Kngine.com is a 3.0 search engine that brings back fantasic results. The tutorial below shows the first result compared to Google and Zakta.
January 17, 2010
- Ginipic - Great Photo Finder
Ginipic came to the rescue when my wife asked me to find a picture of our grandson and I couldn't find the most recent picture on my hard disk. Ginipic searches 12 sources.
January 12, 2010
- Sency
Sency.com is a real time Twitter search that allows you to create your own personal content widget for your site.
January 11, 2010
- Vizband
Vizband is a "better than great" video search engine that searches music videos and Youtube. Easier searching plus a bonus of image, web, news and blog finds. (…)
January 6, 2010
- CES 2010 - A Virtual Journey
I think everyone should go to the Consumer Electronics Show once in their lifetime. I physically traveled to Las Vegas in 2005 with my step son. (…)
December 30, 2009
- 6 Most Used Apps.
After 250 reviews I choose 6 web applications that I use everyday. (…)
December 28, 2009
- Smartphones
I search for smartphones using Kosmix, Icurrent, Zakta, Duck Duck Go and Topsy. Each search engine supplies unique information
December 26, 2009
- Topikality.com
Topikality is a great way to find information on the topics that interest you. Fill in a couple of key words and whamo Topikality brings back excellent information. Worth a long look.
December 10, 2009
- Juggle.com - 2nd Visit
I show how easy it is to find information about government and past sitting U.S. Presidents who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
