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Entries from February 2008

Quintura

February 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Search engines are truly being taken to a new level: the clouds. Named Alternative Search Engine of 2007, by the popular blog, AltSearchEngines, Quintura has floated in with an innovative new way to search. They’ve labeled their site as a “visual search engine,”which is fairly accurate in describing how it functions. Quintura has been online [...]

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Tags: Content Search

Hadoop

February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

It’s close race with Yahoo Search and Google neck and neck. The battle for top search engine rages on as Yahoo Search tries to be more like its worthy opponent, Google. This past week, on February 20, Yahoo shifted a crucial section of its search engine to Hadoop - software that handles large-scale distributed computing [...]

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Tags: Info Search

Eons Facelift

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Eons is back in the news with founder Jeff Taylor giving the site a “face lift.” Apparently this overhaul entailed dropping the minimum age, and redesigning the site with new navigation and a new organization system centered on groups. This new search feature helps members find people with their same interests much easier than before. [...]

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Tags: Social Search