By Nathan Enns on Friday, April 29th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
I wanted to let you all know about a tool to help you create and edit RSS feeds called FeedForAll. The owner is helping to let people know about FeedPlex so I thought I would let everyone know about their tool as well. Feel free to check it out and leave a comment describing your experience.
"NotePage, Inc. staffs technicians and developers with a high level of expertise in both the computer and the communications industries. NotePage's software includes award winning applications recognized in the industry as the best.
NotePage has specialized in communications related applications since 1996 and is a world leader in wireless messaging solutions. The addition of the FeedForAll product line expands on a solid messaging product line."
By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
Here is a copy of the press release announcing the re-launch of the XML search engine FeedPlex:
FyberSearch has officially released the XML search engine FeedPlex in beta.
Burien, Wash. - April 21st, 2005 -- The XML search engine FeedPlex was acquired by FyberSearch on November 1st 2004 and has now officially been released in beta.
FeedPlex (http://www.feedplex.com) is a search engine that returns results in XML format, including RSS and RDF. FeedPlex was founded in the spring of 2004 by Sid Yadav and was acquired by the web search engine FyberSearch on September 1st, 2004. The XML files used in FeedPlex are crawled and cataloged by the FyberSearch web crawler FyberSpider.
One bonus of having FyberSearch technology backing FeedPlex is that incoming links from non-XML web pages can be taken into consideration when ranking the XML files found in FeedPlex search results. Without FyberSearch, FeedPlex would have to crawl non-XML web pages for the sole purpose of counting the outgoing links but could not display them in search results because as they are not XML files. This would be a waste of computer resources.
"I am very happy that FyberSearch's technology can be used to help organize XML data." Says Nathan Enns, Owner and Founder of FyberSearch. "This is just the beginning of what I plan to do both FyberSearch and FeedPlex."
FyberSearch currently plans to continue developing FeedPlex with many advanced features, some personalization tools and a continuously growing index size. All feedback is appreciated, especially as FeedPlex is still in beta testing stage.
By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
The search engine Snap now makes suggestions as you type a search query into their search box. It is similar to Google Suggest but Snap shows you the total number of times each word was searched for as opposed to the total number of results.
By Nathan Enns on Saturday, April 16th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
I just noticed gov.gigablast.com claims to have 25 million government pages indexed. Maybe this is old news to everyone... but I never heard of it before.
It looks like a good search engine to me. For some reason I thought it was a shopping search enigne similar to Google's Froogle. After reading Search Engine Watch I see that it is suppose to be a search engine that only indexes shopping related content.
If that is the case, why do so many pages from FyberSearch appear in the results? They don't relate to shopping or products.
Maybe I am just missing the point of the tool. No matter if it is for shopping or general web pages, Become.com looks good from what I have seen so far.
By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
Use the form below to save your own custom search shortcut. The purpose of this tool is to allow you to easily search for anything you want without having to type it in each time you visit FyberSearch. This can especially be useful if your search queries are long and you waste time typing it in over and over again. Cookies must be enabled to use this feature.
Directions:
1. Type your search query into the first form field below labeled "Search Query".
2. Choose a name for your search query and enter it into the second field labeled "Shortcut Name".
3. Click the "Save Shortcut" button.
4. Try searching for the shortcut name and you will see results as if you typed in the whole search query.
"Mozdex.com announces the second beta of mozdex.com search engine incorporating internet search result clustering technologies.
Search clustering is the grouping of related results based upon your search term in an easy to understand format; helping you zero in on related terms and keywords that you may not have thought of. Clustering gives us the capability to refign broad keywords into more targeted subjects and provide the searcher with results that are grouped by relationship to searched terms."
