Today I came across a search engine. They said that it is a Computational Knowledge Search Engine. I thought okay.., still a search engine. Let's mess with it... I typed my name and hit enter; nothing found. I thought this is a really hopeless search engine which does not even know me who is sitting right in front of it. I tried my personal website name; nothing found. WTH! Then I explored it a little bit and found that it was a different kind of search engine. I mean not every search engine is Google which even knows where your grand parents lived. Try an alien name living at Mars and Google will give you some images and links or probably some videos too showing how to arrange a meeting with that alien. Anyways! we are talking about some computational knowledge based search engine. No spammers or bloggers exaggerations; just Facts and Figures.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places in video format, and share with others. You can now view:
- Historical imagery from around the globe (explore past)
See global changes with decades of historic imagery - Ocean floor and surface data from marine experts (explore water world)
Dive beneath the surface of the ocean - Simplified touring with audio and voice recording
Track and share your paths with others
Watch video about new exciting features of Google Earth:
Rapidshare is a file hosting goldmine if you know how to search it properly. for example: Try using follwoing code.
site:rapidshare.de inurl:zip|rar|7zip|tar
Open google site. Put above line in search box, hit enter. You will get results of downloadable files with zip,rar,7zip and tar formats. inurl can be specified for finding files of specific format. e.g.
inurl:pdf inurl:avi|wmv|mpg|nva inurl:mp3|ogg|wma inurl:exe inurl:zip|rar|7zip|tar
Now the following query will provide you direct link to download winrar software compressed in zip format.
site:rapidshare.de inurl:zip winrar
Rapidshare is one of the world’s biggest and the fastest file web hosts around the world with thousands of files being uploaded and downloaded everyday. But it does not have a search engine of its own, we can search files hosted at rapidshare and other many file hosting services directly using many resources out there as many many search engines are emerging to do this task.
Google is a very powerful search engine. I have seen fresh blog posts search results at Google within minutes. Twitter is even fast publishing platform, which is ever changing, expanding and growing. Google can display search results from Twitter, relating to your search query/term, in the form of latest twitter posts (tweets) as soon as these are published.
Want to find any document or e-book in pdf format? PDF Search Engine is an e-books search engine which searches for pdf files on websites, forums, message boards and more. You can find and download a tons of e-books from there.
From 'special' here I mean 'specific'; 'some particular type of file/files'. Suppose you want to search and get results about all files having extension of avi or jpg or 3gp or pdf then how will you search? Writing 'icon files of extension jpg' is not a suitable way. You might get results about icon tutorials or icon maker softwares.
Consider a case when you want to search documents relating to United States population information but you want all files/results to be in pdf format/files, what would you do?
Preventing Comment Spam
If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, which Google don't like, and they have been testing a new tag that blocks it.
NoFollow Attribute
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Google hopes that the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute and they're pleased that a number of blog software makers have already done it.
NoFollow Example Link
Modified link should look like following:
Visit my <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.
Resources and Links
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Here are some useful links of some useful resources.
Search Engines
http://www.google.com
http://www.mamma.com
http://www.askjeeves.com
http://search.yahoo.com/web
http://search.msn.com
http://www.fireball.de
http://www.Aesop.com
http://www.EntireWeb.com
http://www.InfoTiger.com
http://www.Subjex.net
http://www.ScrubTheWeb.com
http://www.WebSquash.com
http://www.SearchEngine.com
http://www.SearchIt.com
http://www.SurfSafely.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.mylivesearch.com
Image Stock and Image Search Engines
http://www.thinkstock.com
http://www.imagebank.com
http://verseguru.com/?desktops
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.indexstock.com
http://www.imageafter.com
http://openphoto.net
http://www.comstock.com
http://www.shutterpoint.com
http://www.hebus.com
Web Banners Inspiration
http://www.bannersmall.com
Flash Learning
http://www.were-here.com/homepage/default.asp
http://www.actionscript.org
http://www.flashdevils.com
http://www.ultrashock.com
http://www.flashkit.com
Webdesign Standards
http://www.w3.org
http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm (Web Standards Checklist)
http://www.w3.org/2002/03/tutorials
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
http://www.cssbeauty.com/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ (css2 guide)
Color Scheme Help
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html
http://www.sessions.edu/ilu/ilu_1.asp
http://www.colorschemer.com/download.php
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://www.colormatch.dk/ good tool
http://www.myth.com/color/snake.html Color meanings
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And there they authenticated from human whether I was a human or any alien and then next session and I got my search results. What exactly was my search query? It was php screen resolution checking script.
I wonder whether search requests should be authenticated or not? Might any senior developer has answer? What do you think?
Everyone related to computer somehow sometimes feels need to search photos/images, specially designers do more...
I design a lot. I need to get inspiration. Sometimes I search for royalty-free good quality images to use in my work. I have a list of some good search engines which are specific for image related search. I thought someone might find it useful.
http://www.thinkstock.com
http://www.imagebank.com
http://verseguru.com/?desktops
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.indexstock.com
http://www.imageafter.com
http://openphoto.net
http://www.comstock.com
http://www.shutterpoint.com
http://www.hebus.com
I visit these for quality image search. You know how you fulfill your needs for images (get images from CD; get these from Google or anywhere else). Share resources for top fine quality image search with me.
