I'm sure most readers remember the furore that erupted when Google agreed to the censorship demands of the Chinese government when it launched its chinese portal. Their reasoning for doing so was that it was the only way they could get into China and compete in the growing Internet space there. From the market share data that is coming out
Customized Search and a lot more cool things to come when we get this integrated into our site. This took me 5 minutes to create and should make you think a little about what Google has released here. This search box will only search the data that is on Blubrry.com, PodcasterNews.com and PodcastPromos.com
It seems like the phone will not quit ringing and when I finally get a chance to look at what has happened in tech in the past 18 hours I about flip out when I see this new service Google has launched.
Tired of clicking on a Google Search Results well now you can just call the person that you have found in the search results and talk to a warm body about their service or product. I am not sure I want my phone ringing at 3am from someone complaining about a point of view I have on the website but
The day that companies like technorati, pubsub and feedster feared more than anything is here lets call it "G Day". Personally I think those companies are now dead meat. I just created a huge number of search terms, and added them to my news aggreator, and I will know in several days how well it works. [google.com/blogsearch]
Some new search operators are working over at MSN Feed: will return any RSS or ATOM documents that contain your query terms Hasfeed: will return any site that links to an RSS or ATOM feed and returns for your query term. You can check out some samples here [Robin Good]
I played with the Yahoo Audio Search, and was easily able to find audio phrases that are inherent to my podcast. Now all I need is a interface from Yahoo that allows you to search only my shows. So cool! [Yahoo]