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Tazti Speech Recognition Software: Tasty Searching With Your Mouth

This post is meant to accomplish 2 things:
1. Tell you about tazti (”tasty”) speech recognition software and how to get it and use it.
2. Show you how video can communicate better than the written word. So, if you’re in a hurry, skip these words and jump to the video….you will be AMAZED.
I posted about […]

Justia is Search Engine for Legal Cases

Justia is a search engine which searches legal cases, treatises, law blogs and legal podcasts.   Be careful not to put too much faith in the results.  Specific legal matters are best left to lawyers experienced in the particular legal topic.
Technorati Tags: legal search, justia

Cuill is Coming After Google

cool soon.
Read More:
Crunch Base.
Techcrunch.
Technorati Tags: cuill, google, search

Scandoo: Safe Search

Scandoo scans your search results and identifies potentially unsafe websites with a red X. You do not have to download or install any software. Just add the plug in to your toolbar or search engines. It looks like this on my search engine tool bar.

Doing a search with Scandoo will reveal […]

The Best Google Search Secrets

Save time wading through millions of Google search results, get focused results and use Google search as a tool with these search secrets:
1. Use quotation marks to search for the exact phrase “co-op board rejection” (strangely, a splog ranks higher than our original post Madonna Sues Her New York Co-op Board)
2. Use the pipe (|) […]

Voice Recognition Search: Tazti

Voice Tech Group’s voice recognition search widget for your desktop is called Tazti (”tasty”).  It will let you search the internet with your voice instead of your fingers.
You can use Tazti to search Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Wikipedia, About, Youtube, Flickr, MySpace, Ebay, Amazon, AOL Video, and other websites with search capabilities. Tell it a […]

Birth of Google

In a paper entitled Anatomy of a Large Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page introduced Google to the Standford University Computer Science Department. It was 1998.
Here’s the link.

(excerpt)
Sergey Brin received his B.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from

Video Search Engine Links

Viedo search engines, for the visual lover. Feel free to add to the list.
Altavista
video.AOL
blinkx
dabble
Dogpile
everyzing
exalead
fooooo
Googlevideo
mamma
Metatube (search sharing sites)
Myspacetv
pixsy Veoh
thatvideosite
ulinkx
vidsea
Yahoo!
YouTube
Technorati Tags: video, search engines

Google Allows Opt-Out of Street Views, Will Zillow Follow Suit?

Google has announced it will allow people to Opt-Out of its newly launched Street Views.
Google Maps‘ Street Views option shows 360 degree street level photographs, including people on the street. It’s another step toward global transparency, or invasion of privacy, depending on how you see it (or how you’re being seen). Legally, Courts have […]

Top 10 Google Search Engine Ranking Factors

According to the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization, here are the top 10 factors in Google’s secret sauce. The contributors include Rand Fishkin, Aaron Wall, Elisabeth Osmelowski, Danny Sullivan, Barry Schwartz, Neil Patel, and Chris Boggs. These folks know their sauce.
1. Keyword use in title […]