At what point does Google stop being a search engine and start being what we used to call a Portal? Or has it already happened? Yesterday it announced a new search feature for tracking shipments via Federal Express and United Parcel Service. Type in your tracking number into Google and it will take you directly … Read more
There’s an interesting piece in Fortune, apparently, on how Google is a company “in disarray”. The Register reports that several big names have left because of “the juvenile company culture”: No one pays any attention at meetings, because they’re fiddling with their toys, reports Fortune.
Not the catchiest name, but Practisearch seems to do a lot of what the Google Deskbar does: Select the text you want to search, press a hotkey, and a Google web page will open already with the search results for that text. It also does other stuff. It costs $20.
Google is throwing up new services as fast as we can catch ’em. Here’s another: Google News Alerts. Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify.
Further to my earlier report about Google’s updated toolbar, check out their more advanced news search. Not bad. (This link was from the excellent Search Engine Lowdown blog by Andy Beal.)