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Halloween Blogs, Links and Resources

You can find an enormous amount of Halloween information online. Our BloggersBlog.com website has in-depth coverage of what the blogosphere is saying about Halloween in its Halloween Section. Yahoo has a large collection of Halloween links. Thousands of photos tagged as Halloween can be found on Flickr. The latest Halloween news can be found with a quick Google News search or a Yahoo News search. Other great resources include Halloween.com, Halloween Online and Halloween Online Magazine.

Posted on October 28, 2005
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Create Your Own Personal Search Engine

Rollyo recently launched a beta version of its new user-created search engine tool. The site allows you to create your own searchrolls, which are search engines that search only the websites you want. For example, a Rollyo user could create a sports searchroll that searches only their favorite sports websites or a news searchroll that searches only MSNBC.com, BBC, ABC News and CNN.

Posted on October 27, 2005
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Kaboodle Enters Crowded Social Bookmarking Marketplace

A Reuters news story says Kaboodle has entered the crowded collection of websites offering bookmark tagging and sharing.
Kaboodle (http://www.kaboodle.com/) -- short for "whole kit and caboodle", a collection of lots of objects -- allows users to create Web pages to manage personal research, do comparison shopping, make wish lists or plan travel.

"The process is pretty clunky of trying to look at a whole bunch of information by going from site to site," said Manish Chandra, Kaboodle's founder and CEO. "Each Kaboodle page represents a custom search result you have created," he said.

Kaboodle joins a host of rivals in an area known variously as collaborative search, social tagging or social bookmarking, where people point out interesting sites and help put the information found on them into meaningful categories.

The shared search craze recently reached a pinnacle on Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), a site that has struck a chord with users keen to know where others are surfing on the Web. Other examples include diversified Internet companies such as Yahoo, with its MyWeb service, MyJeeves from IAC's AskJeeves and newer players such as Wink and JetEye.
One of the unique features of Kaboodle is that it allows users to create web pages of multiple bookmarks and then share these with others. An example is this Christmas Presents for Me page that someone created.

Posted on October 26, 2005
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Del.icio.us Adds Keyword Search

Del.icio.us, the popular bookmark sharing tool, has now added a keyword search feature. Del.icio.us also has seen a ton of new competitors launch recently year including Shadows, SearchFox and RawSugar. A recent article at PCmag.com takes a closer look at a few of the tools. (Via Search Engine Journal)

Posted on October 25, 2005
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How to Become UnGoogleable

Wired has an article about people who are UnGoogleable and it isn't an easy status to attain. If you blog, email, chat, IM or are listed in the phonebook the chances are that you are probably already googleable meaning that a quick search on Google will turn up information about you.
These unGoogleables don't post online, blog, publish or build web pages using their own names. They're careful about revealing information to businesses, belong to few organizations that can leak personal data, and never submit online resumes -- all common ways that Google captures your data. They spoke to Wired News only on condition that their names be changed for this story.

Agalia says she visits online poker sites, but always enters false data not tied to her true identity. She limits online purchases and favors websites vetted by Truste and other privacy-monitoring groups. Presented with a sweepstakes offer at Legoland, Agalia said she backed out when she was required to submit personal information.

"I try to protect myself from identity theft," says Agalia, who says a would-be thief tried to use her credit card number a few months ago but got the expiration date wrong. "I shred bills, I don't give out information and I don't talk to telemarketers."
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse director Beth Givens offered some more advice:
"If you don't want to be found on Google, don't use your given name if you participate in chat or newsgroups, and for all of your e-mail addresses, don't use any part of your true name," advises Givens. "And for heaven sakes, have an unlisted phone number. Basic tip No. 1 to keep off Google is don't be listed in the White Pages."
One other trick is to have a very common name. For example, it would be difficult to narrow down information about a John Smith or a Jennifer Wilson.

Posted on October 24, 2005
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Find Spooky Events With GooGhoul

Goo Ghoul is an events database that helps you locate Halloween events in your area. To find events your just enter your zip code into the search box. You can also limit the search to specific events like haunted houses, hayrides, yard displays, halloween parties, festivals, radio programs and more. (Via Lifehacker)

Posted on October 21, 2005
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Gada.be Search Engine Launches

Lockergnome founder Chris Pirillo and developer Shayne Sweeney have created an interesting search engine called Gada.be that lets you control the search keywords by including them as part of the domain name. The launch press release explains how Gada.be works.
Try the search box on the main page (or at the top of any gada.be page). Notice how your keywords are separated by a dash when you look at your address bar? We do this for a reason: your keywords are infused with the site's results! You might be visiting Seattle, in need of good sushi. So, enter http://seattle-sushi.gada.be/ in your address bar or enter "seattle sushi" into the search box.

You can use dashes or dots to separate your words. Dashes imply that you're searching for both of the words (together or apart), whereas a dot implies that you're searching for a term. This way, you can carry the URL with you wherever you go (or link to it) and the results will remain intact. You can even combine them, dashes and dots, in the URL. http://technology-cool.stuff.gada.be/ would yeild results akin to: technology AND "cool stuff" (go ahead, give it a shot).
More examples try search-engine.gada.be">search-engine.gada.be or cool.websites.gada.be.

Posted on October 20, 2005
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Surfing for Hurricane Wilma Links

Hurricane Wilma is strengthening in the Caribbean and looks poised to threaten Florida and possibly the east coast of the U.S. We have set up coverage and a links section on our BloggersBlog.com website to make it easy for websurfers to find Wilma's links and news coverage. Links to blogs, charts, graphics and news resources can be found in our special coverage Hurricane Wilma section on BloggersBlog.com.

Posted on October 18, 2005
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New Ways to Find Blogs and Podcasts

Yahoo finally entered the blog search game by incorporating blog search into its Yahoo News search engine. The launch followed shortly after Google launched its Blog Search beta. Both Yahoo and Google will compete with existing blog search tools like Technorati, BlogPulse.com and IceRocket.com.

In directories, Yahoo has launched a podcast directory that will compete with the many existing directories like Podcast.net, iPodder, iTunes, PodcastAlley.com and Podcastdirectory.com.

In blog directories there was the recent launch of BlogFlux.com, which used to be known as Eaton Web. We have also added a growing list of blog network links at our BloggersBlog.com website.

Posted on October 17, 2005
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Inquisitor Launches as Ajax-based Search Tool

Inquisitor has launched a beta-test of its new search technology. Inquisitor provides nearly instant results as keywords are typed into the search box.
Inquisitor is an instant search technology that takes the waiting out of searching the web. It is an AJAX-style web application that retrieves web results and suggestions as-you-type.
The website says the beta test of the search engine works best in Firefox, Safari, or Opera browsers. More information about the search tool can be found on the company's blog. (Via Micropersuasion.com)

Posted on October 15, 2005
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Google Adds Tagging to My Search History

InsideGoogle blogs that Google has added tagging to their My Search History feature. InsideGoogle suggests that Google could open these bookmarks up to the public so everyone could see what the most popular tagged bookmarks and searches are.
Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you've visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.

To bookmark a page, just visit it through Google Search, get to it in your Search History, and click the star icon. Then click "edit" and type in any tags under the "Labels" heading. You can even add some notes in the box underneath that.

Once you've saved a bunch of sites, you can view them by clicking the Bookmarks heading in the left sidebar. You can show multiple tags at once by clicking all of their check boxes.
It was only a matter of time before Google started to compete with social bookmarking websites like del.icio.us and Furl.net. Yahoo also has one called My Web 2.0 -- it launched in June. Many more social bookmarking tools can be found here

Posted on October 13, 2005
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Searching Inside Forums

There is no way to crunch through all the forums online but there are some tools that can help you search some of them. Search Engine Watch reports a search tool called Board Tracker that allows you to search some of the many forums found on the Internet. Lycos also offers a forum searching tool called the Lycos Discussion Search. And ForumFind.com will help you search all the ezboard forums. There are also searches inside the "gated communities" like Delphi Forums, About.com, MSN Groups and Yahoo Groups.
Many forums exist in "gated communities," where you're free to browse, but must be a member to participate. These communities include oldtimers such as the Delphi Forums, and others at large sites such as About, MSN Groups and Yahoo Groups.
Google Groups is also good for searching old Usenet posts. They have some new recent entries and groups there as well that can be quickly searched.

Posted on October 11, 2005
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Placeopedia Matches Wikipedia Articles With Places

Placeopedia is a service that connects Wikipedia articles with places by pinpointing their locations on a Google Maps overlay. Surfers can search for a specific location or press the random button to be taken to a random place. There is also an option to add a new location to Placeopedia. (Via B2Day)

Posted on October 9, 2005
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Yahoo Buys Upcoming.org Social Calendar Site

Yahoo has acquired Upcoming.org, a social calendar service where people can list and update events and share them with others. Upcoming.org competes with other social calendar and evite services like Zvents.com, WhizSpark.com, Evite, SocialWeb.net and MyEvents.com. It will be interesting to see if the switch to Yahoo goes as smoothly as the recent Flickr acquisition by Yahoo.

Posted on October 6, 2005
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FoodieView Launches Recipe Search Engine

FoodieView has launched a search engine which allows visitors to search over 150,000 recipes from dozens of food websites. We tested a search that would make Garfield proud. Our lasagna search brought up results from recipe sources like allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, recipezaar.com and many others. The search results can also be narrowed down by ingredients, types of dish, cuisine, famous chefs and special considerations like low carb and vegetarian. By narrowing our results down to Martha Stewart we found this vegetarian lasagna dish on marthastewart.com. FoodieView also provides a free recipe box to store favorite recipes for easy later retrieval. The only downside with the website is the yellow and oranges used on the website need to go.

Posted on October 4, 2005
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