The tool, known as Krugle, is all set to make a difference in Search domain. Till now developers use Google, Yahoo etc. search engines to search for source code which we all know is not too convincing search. Krugle is a search engine for source code and code-related information. It is designed to deliver easy access to source code and other highly relevant technical information in a single, convenient, clean, easy-to-use interface. Here are some of the features Krugle is aiming to focus on: (more…)
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Search Engine for Source Code
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006Google’s Personalized Homepage on Mobile
Sunday, January 15th, 2006Google recently launched personalized homepage service for Mobile handsets after its success for desktops. This was announced soon after google made its mark in telecom industry by alliance with Motorola and being the default search engine with Opera Mini browser. The mobile homepage like for PC, will provide personalized information on one page with options to access Gmail, local weather and handpicked RSS feeds.
So what next in the line —> Is it Google in IPTV !!!!!!
Google on Motorola handsets
Saturday, January 7th, 2006Days after Google announced to be default search engine with Opera Mini, Google has announced its alliance with Motorola handsets to enable easy access to search engine. Motorola will integrate a Google icon onto select devices so that users can connect directly to Google anytime, anywhere at the click of a button. These mass-market, Internet-optimized handsets will be distributed from early 2006 to select Motorola customers worldwide.
Google’s Mobile Search
Thursday, January 5th, 2006Google, after proving on the Search front in Internet domain is all set to become default search engine on mobile phones. Google Inc.’s search features will be included within the Opera Mini as a default search engine, a new browser for cell phones due to launch this month. It will help Google gain more traction with wireless Web users.
Lets wait and watch how Google does on this front.
Welcome 2006
Thursday, January 5th, 2006Year 2005 had been a happening year in Portals and Content Management domain.
Google emerging and standing out from rest of the world growing many folds and exploring in different domains. We saw products like Google Talk, Google Desktop and side bar, Google earth etc. It has really picked up itself from now just being a search player but growing in portal space.
AJAX buzz word that took the world by storm, though its not something new in the market. Google has been pioneer in this as well with the products like Google mail and Google home customization. There have been lot of talk about security aspect and drawbacks but AJAX has come a long way.
Blogging is another area that really gained popularity across the world. There has been many more blogging sites then previous times. Its becoming more of a habit for people to blog and put forth the ideas.
This year there has been a tremendous growth in area of Usability. This has always been on chart for a pretty long time but this year saw a drastic change in the approach towards it.
Year also marked with lots of mergers with companies like Oracle , BEA , IBM etc buying the emerging smaller players which might emerge as a potential threat in future. These merger did lead to lot of overlapping with their existing products. So lets wait and see how these mergers really help companies. Example: IBM acquiring BowStreet though it has RAD which is on the lines of Bowstreet.
Open source products also proving their point with Liferay, OpenCms, Alfresco standing out in front. Also bigger players are moving towards open source trend like Websphere Application server with community edition etc.
Collaboration is another buzz word for the year where many products aimed to become a “whole” product. For example, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, has Instant Messaging, Content Services and Workspaces for collaboration. Also Web Clippings/URL scraper has gained popularity for faster and better intergration.
Portlet world has seen a lot of stretch on standards with JSR 168 being incorporated by most of the vendors moving out from proprietors stuff. Also JSR 286 has been submitted which will align portlets specification with J2EE 1.4 . JSR 170 Content Repository has laid standards for content repository access.
Indian markets are making tremendous progress with government itself promoting portals market. Nabh’s String Bean 3.0 is another example in that direction. Many financing institutions like IDBI have already launched portals.
Google’s flight Search
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Google’s new search feature let people quickly get airline flight information. Type in two different cities, or airport codes, in the Google search box and it will bring up two boxes to enter departing and returning flight dates. Below those are links to the travel Web sites Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Clicking on one of those links leads directly to flight options for your selected itinerary on that site.
Click here to check out the feature.
I tried this search feature on Google India but no luck. Looks like it is still in testing phase. But surely another revenue stream for Google.
Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) Search Version 6.0
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Verity recently announced the availability of newest release of its specialized search application platform, the Verity K2E Version 6.0. Version 6.0 includes :
- New Business Console which enables administrators and business managers to view search trends, react quickly to changing search patterns, and provide targeted results to end-users. It can also be integrated with Verity Collaborative Classifier, a K2E capability that distributes taxonomy management to the people who know and use the content with knowledge engineers who specialize in classification.
- New User Interface Building Blocks which deliver a robust set of out-of-the-box widgets for basic and advanced search, as well as attribute and category browsing that greatly reduce the amount of application development required. In addition, with the new User Interface Building Blocks, administrators can now deploy Faceted Navigation user interfaces that provide an intuitive and relevant end-user search experience that combine taxonomy browsing, attribute browsing and text search.
- New XML query capabilities that fully leverage the structure of XML documents, improving search relevance.
- Extended content support – Outlook Emails and attachments, PST archives, individual files within Zip file, can be indexed and searched.
- New Web crawling feature, Ultra Spider, which enables indexing to be configured through a Web -based wizard interface.
Jux2 search engine for sale on eBay
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
We are know about eBay and here is an interesting deal on eBay. Jux2, a meta search engine which let you compare results across major search engines, is for sale on eBay. Jux2 came into picture as a comparative research tool to determine how different are the various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves and is anyone better than other?
With Jux2 you can:
- Get much more relevant information then using only one search engine.
- Get a combination of results that best suit the search from the best search engines. Example, the results that make the top 10 on both, say, Google and Yahoo, are probably great results that should be closer to the top of the results list… which is exactly where jux2 puts them.
- Save time by searching both your favorite search engine and your backup search engine at once.
Google Reader
Monday, October 10th, 2005Google just released a web-based RSS client called Google Reader enabling users to find and subscribe to online feeds and organizing the information. The product features a clean, easy-to-use interface and includes a comprehensive feed finder, multi-media feed displays, and algorithms that can assist users with automatic content prioritization, plus easy sharing capabilities with email and ‘blog this’ features.
Again google mastered the Ajax framework and the same can been seen. Like Gmail it provide short cut keys for next, previous, page up page down etc. which is pretty cool.
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Googlize Google
Monday, September 26th, 2005Now you can personalize Google’s Search engine page by placing your own Google style logo. Just enter the text that you require and your personalized Google Search will be ready to use. Check this out
http://google.topmasala.com/
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Bixee.com
Good news for Indian Job hunters, check out Bixee site that offers search across various Job portals like Naukri, TimesJobs, JobAhead, JobStreet, Monster India etc. Though it does not have any formal tie up with these job portals as of now but soon they are planning to have one. Apart from Job search it also provides Interview Questions Search and Resumes Search.