Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you want to meet new people. Twitter’s own people search lets you search for people you know by en...

Google owns Blogger is one of the best online blog services available. Blogger is not very search engine friendly, though, and the Blogger team even managed to block Google’s search engine crawlers from indexing some of the Blogger blogs. Pandia takes a look at the Blogger/Google relationship ...

Here are some search engine relevant articles from the web this week: Twitter’s ’suggested users’ get mammoth boost from new feature A feature launched last month, called “suggested users,” contributed to the spike, explained Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-founder an...

“Semantic” is a word with a magic ring to it in search engine circles. The way it’s hyped makes you suspect it is the second coming of search. Hypes make me skeptical and I have been biding my time, waiting for the technology to mature. Now the time has come and I’m glad to p...

Ask is determine to fight the search engine battle with the big three, which is good. But then it goes and does something stupid as framing search results. This week Ask.com announced that it is moving into a new data center. The company would not have invested that kind of money if they didn’...

It is still difficult for search engines to exactly pinpoint your identity as a user, but by using various techniques they can learn a lot about you. Should you be worried about your privacy? Ixquick thinks so, and is no longer recording your IP address. Using IP addresses (the code that identifies ...

If you spend a minute or two following Twitter’s public timeline, you’ll quickly discover that a large percentage of what people twitter about is of little interest to anyone but them selves and their closest friends. But you’ll also find tasty morsels of up-to-date information dir...

Google might be closer to launching the Google Web Drive, allowing you to store your files on a virtual hard drive online. In 2006 we reported on the rumors of Google launching a virtual hard drive in the cloud called Platypus: “The Gdrive is not public and you cannot use it yet. But the Googl...

Yahoo! has a new boss, and her name is Carol Bartz. She is the former chief executive of software company Autodesk Inc. “She is admired in the Valley as well as on Wall Street for her deep management expertise, strong customer orientation, excellent people skills, and firm understanding of the...

The Inside Google Book Search blog has announced that it is closing down its Google Catalog Search Product. If you have never heard about it, don’t worry, it was never really meant to become a popular product. Its real use was to help Google conquer the world. The Pandia Post presented Google ...