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.

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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.

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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.

http://www.pdf-search-engine.com

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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.

To avoid accidental clicks Google has made some changes in format of AdSense Ad Units now.

Previously, visitors could click on the background and full text of an ad, but now they can click only on the title and URL of a text ad. No longer valid are clicks on the background and clicks on the text that is not the title or URL in the ad.

In an advertiser point of view, this is good! but many publishers think it will decrease a lot of adsense earnings by decrease in click-through rate. But I think this preventive measure will put quality in advertisement for advertisers.

The reasoning given by AdSense for change in their text ad formats is to help reduce accidental clicks, increase value for advertisers and improve advertiser campaign value. A reduction in accidental clicks will keep users on your pages, interacting with your content until they choose to click on an ad. This change will enhance the user’s overall experience with your websites.

I think it makes sense and is a good step. No good webmaster even wants user to accidently click ad and go away. Instead a good webmaster or blogger wants to give more valued content and information. The only purpose of ads is not to earn but also give users other valuable resource to explore, in the case they want it. It is all on user's choice.

However this important format change in AdSense text ad must be in mind of publisher, advertiser and user as well.

Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google:

• Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
• Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old).
• Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
• Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.
• Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian. To date, no requests have been received from beyond the earth's orbit, but Google has a Klingon interface just in case.
• Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
• Googlers are multifaceted. One operations manager, who keeps the Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton.

For more proceed to Google Press Page

At Doogle main tags are Feck, Drink, Arse, Girls, Eurovision, Doogle Search and I am feeling Bolloxed. Doogle is the product of a bunch of mad scientists. Check it out.
Doogle Website

At Googlism you can search Who, What, Where, When. Try searching your name or celebrity or some brand name or some day or even places according to the instructions and see what happens! Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms there.
Googlism Website

More Google Fun

Alternative Fake Google Logos
Logoogle
(Fake Google Logos, Google Logo Images, Google Logo Pictures by Google Fans, Google Logo Design Awards)

Why You Should Work at Google? What's Google's Mission? Isn't search a solved problem? Who is working in Google and why? Is Google hiring? What's Google's real strength?
Google has answer to all these questions at Why Google.

What's coming next? What's google new gift to this world? What Google is working with now? What's new technology? New Ideas? New Challenges? For answer follow the Google Lab. Read about Google Technology.

Does Google need awards? If Yes, Who will give award to google? Did Google win awards? Find out at Google Awards.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. What more? Ever wanted to know about the company? I mean we all search the google and many times a day again and again and do we know enough about the inside of Google.
i.e. Google major employees, Google Executive Management Group, Google Management Group, Google Board of directors even Google Contact Info.
Follow Google Inc. Fact Sheet.

Great Jobs, Great Lives. When it comes to jobs. What Google can offer find out at Google Jobs.

Google's technology playground.
Google labs showcases a few of google favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time. Play with prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.

Some of these experiments are Experimental Search, Google Code Search, Google Music Trends, Google Accessible Search, Google Trends, Google Mars, Google Web Accelerator and iGoogle (Personalized Start Pages - Web The Way You Want It ) is also one of them.

View Full List at Google Lab.

I liked it what they do and inform the world that what is coming next so you may be prepared or get ideas. But before you use these google experiments also consider the note beneath the google lab main page which states that:

Please note: These technologies are still in the beginning stages of development, so they may disappear without warning or perform erratically. If something's not working on this page, please come back and try it again later.