Search

Mark on March 17th, 2008

I’m still only part of the way through the State of the News Media report (it is a monster). There’s a lot to digest there, but this struck me as potential bad news, particularly for newspapers on the web: Americans are going online more frequently, spending more time there and relying more on search and [...]

Share

Continue reading about Searching, linking

Mark on March 16th, 2008

There’s a new link in the blogroll at right with its very own category, Media Search. The link is to MediaGeeks.org, a media search engine created by the ever-busy Howard Owens. In a recent post, he describes it this way: Personally, I’ve found it very useful for looking stuff I’ve read some place some time [...]

Share

Continue reading about Searching media

Mark on February 29th, 2004

Updated on April 25, 2009: Reader Bill Greenburg has emailed me about soople, saying it is an attack site. When you Google soople, it now gives you a warning that the site that “this site may harm your computer.” Jonathan Dube has tipped readers of his Poynter column Web Tips to a new way of [...]

Share

Continue reading about Searching made simpler (Updated)

Mark on February 3rd, 2004

Microsoft has launched its new search engine and it’s already having an impact.

Share

Continue reading about Micro-searching