Searching for Something?
I happened to stumble on some new search engines. Perhaps you haven't heard of a couple of them.
(the following partially taken from an article by Harry McCracken- FOXNews.com )
http://www.bing.com/ The new version is Google's most formidable competitor for general-purpose Web searching, with numerous nice touches -- for instance, you get playable previews of videos right in search results.
http://www.kayak.com/ a travel search engine
http://vark.com/ a free service (located at Vark.com) whose members serve as a panel of experts on an array of topics. You can ask questions via e-mail or your favorite instant-messaging service; Aardvark relays them to people who it thinks may know about the subject, then collects their answers and delivers them back to you.
http://www.wolfframalpha.com/ calls itself a "computational knowledge engine," but I think of it as a 21st-century equivalent of a thick, fact-packed paperback almanac. It's a vast repository of knowledge skewing towards the mathematical and scientific that you can explore by entering questions.
http://search.twitter.com/ You'll find a Google-like search engine at search.twitter.com that returns 140-character "tweets" from Twitter members, often containing links to articles around the Web.
http://www.siri.com/ the first iPhone app that's the commercialized result of a multimillion-dollar Defense Department research project. It's a "virtual personal assistant" that uses voice recognition, your GPS location, and links to local information and services to respond to requests you speak into an iPhone 3GS.
(the following partially taken from an article by Harry McCracken- FOXNews.com )
http://www.bing.com/ The new version is Google's most formidable competitor for general-purpose Web searching, with numerous nice touches -- for instance, you get playable previews of videos right in search results.
http://www.kayak.com/ a travel search engine
http://vark.com/ a free service (located at Vark.com) whose members serve as a panel of experts on an array of topics. You can ask questions via e-mail or your favorite instant-messaging service; Aardvark relays them to people who it thinks may know about the subject, then collects their answers and delivers them back to you.
http://www.wolfframalpha.com/ calls itself a "computational knowledge engine," but I think of it as a 21st-century equivalent of a thick, fact-packed paperback almanac. It's a vast repository of knowledge skewing towards the mathematical and scientific that you can explore by entering questions.
http://search.twitter.com/ You'll find a Google-like search engine at search.twitter.com that returns 140-character "tweets" from Twitter members, often containing links to articles around the Web.
http://www.siri.com/ the first iPhone app that's the commercialized result of a multimillion-dollar Defense Department research project. It's a "virtual personal assistant" that uses voice recognition, your GPS location, and links to local information and services to respond to requests you speak into an iPhone 3GS.
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