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...

“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’...

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 ...

As the saying goes: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Here is a tool for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves. Your friend asks you a question he could jus...

Pandia argues that Google’s deal with US publishers and authors may lead to a new revolution in book dissemination — one that can be compared to the importance of the printing press. This week the Official Google Blog announced that Google has made a deal with US publishers regarding the...

The Live Search Blog reports that Microsoft is abandoning its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. We argue that this might be a sign of a greater cultural weakness of Microsoft. Microsoft will keep the current Live Search Books and Live Search Academics databases, and the data will ...

Microsoft has redesigned its new search engine, and Pandia likes what it sees. This week Microsoft launched a news version of its news search engine. Actually, for us it was a bit hard to notice the changes at first. We live in Norway, and our Live insisted on delivering the old news search home pag...

Kosmix is a different kind of clustering search engine. Their spider crawls the web and works hard to categorize the web pages it gathers into algorithm generated topic pages. Their ambition is that every topic should have a “home page” — a page that serves as a doorway to all the ...

Yahoo! has decided to join Google’s OpenSocial . OpenSocial is a common API (coding standard) for web site plug-ins that makes it possible for them to work on multiple websites. The tremendous success of Facebook has made such standards increasingly important, as owners of social web sites wou...