NEWS: INFOAXE - SEARCH THROUGH VISITED SITES
December 5th, 2008
Did it ever happened to you wanted to come back to some extremely interesting / important webpage you visted and you did not add it to your bookmarks? Many times? Definetely too many. Now it looks like there is something for you - InfoAxe, the plug-in geared towards searching through the history of visited sites.
To start using InfoAxe you have to download its toolbar, after adding it to your browser you can start saving visited sites. In InfoAxe it is the user who decides when browsing pages are being saved, or rather indexed - you can do it by clicking on Record on/Record off buttons. This option can be used when we do not want the record to follow, or it can help to improve / organize the search results for the query conducted in specific periods of time.
While doing a query we can see the InfoAxe window, that is displayed at Google’s search results page - it contains the sites we previously visisted, after clicking on them we can use the option named - pivot, which works as time axis for our visited sites - we can track back the pages visited after or before particular page.
-mw
NEWS: DELVING INTO SOCIAL JAR
October 29th, 2008
PeopleJar was built around idea “search and be found”. It is not typical search engine for seeking people but rather a social service to connect people of simmilar interests. This blog is not a place to write about social services, the reason why I’m writning about it here are search tools that we can use in this service - network search and custom search. Both are quite advanced and give exact results.
Network search is a tool to search among members of particular network in the service, these networks are divided into many categories like for example Sport is divided into disciplines and Services into various jobs. Using the network search we can mark attributes like gender, age, years of experience, skills level, location and many many more.
Custom search tool enable us to make a very detailed query, we can look for the person of specific age/gender/location with specific music taste, speaking particular language and with specific interest at the same time. What is more, if there would be nobody in results, we can save the query and be alerted, when person matching our demandings will join the community.
-mw
