Instant Search With Windows Vista
Microsoft's Windows Vista website describes a desktop search feature called Instant Search. Instant Search looks more visually pleasing than the old Windows search. From Microsoft's description it sounds like the performance is also much improved over the Windows XP desktop search.
Windows Vista introduces Instant Search: enhanced desktop search and organization that helps you locate files and e-mail messages on your PC. If you remember anything about a file—the type of file, when it was created, or even what it contains-Windows Vista can quickly find it for you.Windows Vista just arrived in stores today. Here are some links to resources about the new operating system:
With Instant Search, you are never more than a few keystrokes away from whatever you're looking for. This feature, which is available almost anywhere you are in Windows Vista, enables you to search for a file name, a property, or even text contained within a file, and it returns pinpointed results. It's fast and easy. Instant Search is also contextual, optimizing its results based on your current activity-whether it's searching Control Panel applets, looking for music files in Windows Media Player, or looking over all your files and applications on the Start menu.
Posted on January 30, 2007
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Top Search Stories of 2006
10e20 has a post listing the 101 top search-related web stories of 2006. On the list are obscure stories like Ms. Dewey, Yahoo's Bix.com acquisition and the KinderStart Google lawsuit. The big stories are there as well including Yahoo's video site launch, the Wikipedia founder's search engine plans, Netscape's Digg competitor, AOL's data leak, Widgets and Yahoo reorganization. The #1 story on the list is hard to argue with -- it's the Google YouTube acquisition.Posted on January 2, 2007
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Yahoo's Top Searches of 2006
Yahoo has released its list of the top searches for 2006. Here are the lists for the top overall searches and for the top news searches.
Top Overall Searches
- Britney Spears
- WWE
- Shakira
- Jessica Simpson
- Paris Hilton
- American Idol
- Beyonce Knowles
- Chris Brown
- Pamela Anderson
- Lindsay Lohan
- Steve Irwin death
- Anna Nicole's son dies
- Iraq
- Israel and Lebanon
- U.S. elections
- Fidel Castro stroke
- North Korea nuke
- JonBenet confession
- Saddam Hussein trial
- Danish cartoon
Posted on December 8, 2006
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Google Trends Launches
Google has announced the launch of Google Trends, a new tool that lets you track the popularity of Google searches. A Search Engine Watch blog post points to some example searches like a google,microsoft,yahoo search and yankees, red sock. Our Bloggers Blog site looks at the trend in blogging. There is no limit to what Google Trends users can compare. It is a powerful tool that offers an inside look at what websurfers are searching for. Posted on May 11, 2006
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2005 Finds of the Year Winners Announced
Yahoo UK's Finds of the Year awards have been announced. The awards celebrate the most original, humorous and useful sites. One of the websites called Net Disaster allows you to target a website you hate with coffee spills, meteors, nuclear bombs, worms and other disasters. Here is a list of all the winners.
Best Community Website: Treasure My Text
Best Educational Website: Woodland Grange Primary School
Best Entertainment Website: Liveplasma
Best Innovative Website: Net Disaster
Best TV Website: Derren Brown
Best Travel Website: Transport for London
Best Weird and Wonderful Website: The Cloud Appreciation Society
Best Celebrity Website: Greeting the 500
The people's choice award will not be announced until February 2nd. (Via News.com)
Posted on January 25, 2006
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Google's Year-End Zeitgest
Google has listed the Top Searches for 2005 in a special section on Google.com. The site lists the top overall searches for the search engine as well as special categories including World Affairs, Nature, Movies, Celebrities and Phenomena. Here are the top 2005 search from Google.Posted on December 22, 2005
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AOL's Top 2005 Searches
At the end of the year search providers start to release their top search results for 2005. Here are the top search results from AOL this year:AOL Search Year in Review AOL has also listed the top results for other categories including people, politicians, athletes, tv shows, cars, gadgets, fashion trends and diets. (Via Search Engine Watch)
Posted on December 19, 2005
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Yahoo's Top Searches of 2005
At the end of the year search providers start to release their top search results for 2005. Here are the top search results from Yahoo:Yahoo Top 2005
- Britney Spears
- 50 Cent
- Cartoon Network
- Mariah Carey
- Green Day
- Jessica Simpson
- Paris Hilton
- Eminem
- Ciara
- Lindsay Lohan
Posted on December 16, 2005
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