Tag Archives: search engines

Google and Microformats

Posted on 14 May 2009 by Rick Mason

Google has made the jump into supporting Microformats as well as RDFa, calling their implementation “Rich Snippets”! This is great news on several different levels. Semantic markup within web pages provides a way to target searches much more effectively.  TechCrunch … Continue reading →

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Intelways

Posted on 12 January 2008 by Rick Mason

Intelways is an interesting search site.  It isn’t a meta search tool, but it does harness multiple search engines to create an improved experience. As with many things on the web, the best way to understand it is to try … Continue reading →

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eTools.ch

Posted on 31 March 2007 by Rick Mason

eTools.ch is a search engine with a couple of interesting twists… It is a meta-search engine, meaning it doesn’t do its own crawling and indexing of web pages, it sends your search to 10 other search engines, then sorts the … Continue reading →

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Sugarcode the Web

Posted on 3 January 2007 by Rick Mason

For those who like the power that is offered by the command line, there is Sugarcode The Web!, a site that lets you build search queries using keyboard entries that access many of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.).  … Continue reading →

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