MSN Search Beta Release
Following up on the previous test technology preview release, MSN has launched its new, unique search engine database at beta.search.msn.com. As opposed to the previous tests, this version has advanced...
View ArticleYahoo! Adds Wayback Links to Cache
According to Gary, Yahoo! has expanded its cache option by providing links to old versions of Web pages via The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The link is in the header of the Yahoo! cached page...
View ArticleWikipedia as Source?
An interesting posting today first claimed that the U.S. Dept. of State shamelessly stole text from the Wikipedia: At this point some of you may ask just what the heck the US Dept. of State was doing,...
View ArticleWhy Search More than One?
Here is another example of a search I ran today where several search engines failed to give me the answer I needed. In particular, I was looking for a cached copy of a Web page, since the page was...
View ArticleNew Exalead Interface Launches
Exalead has launched its new interface that has been in beta and preview mode for the past month or so. They also report indexing over 8 billion pages (they had initially stated they would meet that...
View ArticleHereUAre, Gigablast, 10 Billion, and Spam
Ever heard of HereUAre, which has “Over 10 billion pages indexed?” Try a search and you may recognize the results as coming from Gigablast. So what’s the connection? This leads to a rather strange...
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A Russian Cache
I do not usually spend much time with country-specific search engines, especially those in languages I do not speak. Even with English-language country-specific search engines, the general search...
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More Caches: Japan and China
So after learning yesterday that the Russian search engine Yandex (Яндекс) cached pages, I started looking at a few other well-known, non-English search engines. Baidu, the Chinese search engine has...
View ArticleHow to Find Bing’s New Cache Link Location
I love cached copies of web pages for many reasons, but with the consolidation of search engines, the number of sources for a cached page has been decreasing. So imagine my dismay when I noticed the...
View ArticleCache Keyword Highlighting Disappears When Logged In
Google Operating System reports in Bring Back Keyword Highlighting to Google Cache that logged in users have lost the ability to have search words highlighted when looking at Google's cached copy of a...
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