Yahoo search is improving

Earlier I wrote about Sometimes yahoo is better is better than google in providing search results when I was searching for Installing latex on hostmonster. And now with its open search platform SearchMonkey its trying to close in to Google. SearchMonkey allows you to create data services to built search apps that can enhance your search results.

Yahoo search gallery provides you many existing search enhancements that you can add after logging to yahoo. [Via labnol.org].Try various enhancement like LinkedIn Profile, IMDB results, StumbleUpon Reviews and other popular ones.

And you can also create your own search enhancement using step by step method using Presentation application (SearchMonkey Guide).

SearchMonkey API unables you to modify how particular links appears in search results. You can add images, related links and other html formatting but it does not unable you change position of a page in search result. I was unable to find feature which will enable us to filter sites which requires you to login or sites like ebay and amazon which may not be relevant to us by making their appearance farther in search results.

But still these enhancements provides you little summary of search results which is very useful like in case of movie reviews, people profile via linkedIn, stock information etc thus sometimes making opening the actual webpage unnecessary.

June 20, 2008 | Filed Under webdev | 2 Comments 

Sometimes yahoo is better

And it was proved yesterday night. Actually I was looking for installing latex on my web domain (hostmonster). So here I dont have root permissions and I might also had to deal with other issue. I thought of going the easy way and just google it as someone must have done something similar. But I tried variation combination (latex on web hosts, latex on hostmonster and other search queries too) and got nothing.

Then after some time I thought of giving yahoo search a shot (though I was not quite sure that it would fetch me anything more useful). So when I search (latex on hostmonster), voila the first result was exactly what I needed. Now I’m eager to try installing latex(/tetex) on my web hosting account. And yeah i’ll keep update you, how it went.

Share, what search engine do you use and which do you find better.

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under web | 2 Comments 

Google movie search tricks

I found this interesting article about search tricks for movie lovers. Try some sample searches:

Interesting thing is country specific google movie domains are also tracking movie theaters, multiplexes in each city for listing of movies and their timings. And you can sort them according to movie popularity and theater distance from your address. that’s pretty cool.. !!
Read more for more search tricks: 5 Most Fantastic Movie Search Tricks With Google

February 25, 2008 | Filed Under entertainment, listing | 1 Comment 

A thousand on del.icio.us & Stumble

Today i crossed 1000 bookmarsk on del.icio.us and stumble
On del.icio.us :
On Stumble:

My del.icio.us page
My StumblePage
My collection of del.icio.us tags
Firefox Extension created by me : My Del.icio.us Toolbar 2.0 Provide your feedback.
Try Del.icio.us Searcher

February 11, 2007 | Filed Under offbeat, web2.0 | Leave a Comment 

My Del.icio.us Toolbar

Update: Noticed some changes made by mozilla in extesnion’s page
I developed this toolbar that provides you all functionality of del.icio.us website with a quick access right in your toolbar. It helps you in searching bookmarks and tagging new websites and lot more functionalities. Try it :)
Download it from here : My Del.icio.us

Try Newer Version : My Del.icio.us 2.0

Try : Delicious SearchER

Related Post : Del.icio.us Bookmark Search

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under firefox | 2 Comments 

Del.icio.us Bookmark search..

Yesterday i made this del.icio.us bookmark search page. It takes xml file as input and search for bookmarks according to tags and title. It start searching as you type.
here is link : Del.icio.us SearchER

Any suggestion are welcome… :)

Updated URL !

September 26, 2006 | Filed Under web, web2.0, webdev | 2 Comments