Catching up … Google recently announced that it was changing the name of Froogle to Google Product Search. Apparently not enough people were getting the pun, or something. Meanwhile, Google Catalogs, which […]
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Metasearching for Social Network Users
There’s a metasearch for everything else, so why not. yoName, at http://www.yoname.com , allows you to put in a username, e-mail address, or first and last name, and find people across several […]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 042207
Yahoo teams up with PayPal. About time. Oxford University Press has a posse .. I mean a blog . Mozilla fans, Thunderbird 2 is now available . But more important than that […]
Whitepages.com Launches Tool for Name Mining
I can’t think of anything else to call it. Whitepages.com has launched a new part of their site that allows you to enter a name and get a breakdown of how that […]
Topix And the Local News Bureaus
Catching up… Topix, one of my favorite news search engines that nobody talks about (though that’s getting less true every day) has launched “virtual news bureaus” for local folks to submit news. […]