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Optimize Craigslist with Boolean Search Operators

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Just like the renowned Google search engine, Craigslist.org has their own technical search term operators that will alter the parameters of your search. If you are looking to add special conditions such as customizing your neighborhoods when looking for an apartment near downtown Tucson and historic districts, you could easily enter in the following into [...]

Enhance your Music Searching

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Searching for free music – I’ve done it before, but things change and I get smarter (hopefully).
Trying to get a digital copy of a song or album? Look no further. I’ve found the latest and best online tools to get you right to your goal. Instead of previewing 30 second samples or scrounging through the [...]

Google goes Search Wiki

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Just when you thought Google was satisfied with search simplicity, it now has another way of mining data on a massive scale, hopefully to improve the results of their searches. I just stumbled across this in the morning, and I’m not sure if this is a permanent public module or not. There are two new [...]

Anonymous Google Searching with Blingo

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

No need to fear for your life or anything, but it’s always nice to know that everyone who uses Google has a cookie that expires 2038. The cookie is not edible, but it will track your use on the site and log your entire search history. Google has allegedly indicated that they won’t be deleting [...]

Google Key Words Don’t Unlock Doors

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

SEO and keyword ranking is a big deal to white collar internerds, but I look at it as an arbitrary location up to google to shuffle around. I don’t need to be on the front page for the search 11 best 2007 (notice the permalink to that page is /ten-best-places-to-search-free-music/, although I changed the [...]

MySpace Masks Links for Spam

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I’m not sure when they did it since I’m not a constant user, but MySpace has come out with another flawed improvement on their site. All external links are hidden behind msplinks.com redirects. What does this mean? Well, when you hover over a link that leaves myspace, you’ll see in your status bar a link [...]

Reasons to Be Cautious of Google

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Google is getting too powerful for the internet. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, and in fact use some Google services, but that doesn’t mean we should all turn a blind eye to what Google is and is capable of. Google has one of the best search engines, any they also have a wealth of knowledge. [...]

Google Gets it Backwards

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Something’s wrong with Google search today. Google is moving backwards with user accessibility. It’s like they are literally retreating into the past. They are going back to their stone aged ways. Their search engine has turned around for the worst. Google needs to look at itself in the mirror and realize what has happened. I [...]

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