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October 26, 2008

Twitter Search

I just learned a cool Competitive Intelligence (CI) tip or trick: Use Twitter Search to get the skinny or the goods on companies and their products . . . as well as people and their reputations.  Those of you familiar with Twitter know that it is a microblogging service that allows users to post 140-character updates. People reveal the darndest things. The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) recently linked to this blog post about using Twitter for ethical cloak & dagger activities.

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Blog Search Tools

Search Engine Journal has a nifty profile of blog search tools. The usual suspects are covered: Technorati and Google Blog Search. However, I totally overlooked the fact that an RSS reader such as Bloglines can be used to search for not only posts, but also feeds. Duh! Then there’s BlogPulse , which is totally new for me. Be sure to check out the about page. Some potential cool features include trends analysis (i.e., graphical displays and charts) as well as a conversation tracker.

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October 21, 2008

100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Websites

How did I miss this? – - PC World’s  collection of cool tools. You can display the resources by category - – e.g., “Learn Stuff”. Also, you can display an A-Z list. Compiler and writer Mark Sullivan describes these websites as “indispensable”. No doubt you’ll discover new sites as well as rediscover veteran ones.

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October 6, 2008

Ask.com . . . Back in the Game?

Last time I’d heard about Ask.com they had laid off a hero, Gary Price, and switched their focus entirely. Barely any mention of them – - save for a diss or two – - @ the recent Web Search University conference in DC last month. Now, however, it looks as if Ask.com has upgraded. Ask.com mines questions and answers and will place answers at the top of the search results. Also, a running list of users’ queries appears. Supposedly, download time have increased, too. Be sure to check out the What’s New? section.  Factoid: USA Today reports that – - as of August 2008 – Ask.com garnered 4.8% of all web searches.

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October 1, 2008

Google Image Search Features

Just noticed that Google Images has some cool advanced search features. Specifically, searchers and users can limit by “content type”. Currently Google is offering the following options:

• any content
• news content
• faces
• photo content

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