Fire Eagle is a service, imho especially for mobile devices, that helps users share their location online with their friends and with other sites and services to get the right information just in time.... perhaps another iPhone application :)

Mickey from Google Earth Blog explains it as follow:

Yahoo has just launched their entry into the growing world of "track your location" sites with the release of Fire Eagle...
You can feed your location to Fire Eagle from your GPS unit, cell phone, laptop, etc, then their applications can use it for whatever task you give them permission for. [read on]

You can find some of favorite apps by exploring the Application Gallery!
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net

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Labels: collaboration, gadgets, iphone, maps, mashup, mobile, networking, search, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_services

1. OriginalSignal 2. Popurls 3. Alltop



All these web services are (single page) RSS aggregator web sites, designed to bring the most popular RSS feeds collected by topics to you and me.

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Technorati Profile

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Viewzi wants to visualize your search results in a flash based way and eats actually all my browser memory, likely :)

viewzi - it's all about the views

search instant for the topic video

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Labels: browser, search, video, web_2.0, web_services

Windows Search 4.0 has a number of new features and enhancements that can help IT professionals deploy and maintain desktop- and enterprise environment search.

Online E-Mail Indexing
Run Your Outlook Client in Exchange Cached Mode
if your mailbox is copied locally on the end user’s computer, Windows Search performs its indexing activities locally as well. This means the Exchange server isn’t burdened during either the initial or the incremental indexing.

Remote Queries
Windows Search 4.0 extends the ability to search across remote desktops.
eg. Querying from Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Support for Indexing Encrypted Files
WS4 supports indexing encrypted files on local file systems, allowing users to index and search the properties and contents of encrypted files

read full article on Windows Search Administration Guide.
Get Windows Search 4.0 and read how to Extending the Windows Search Index

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Labels: collaboration, communication, microsoft, search, social_software, software

Get tons of mp3 download links using Google web search:

expression: "Band or Artist name here" last modified mp3 "index of" -html -htm -php -asp


example search query:

"daft punk" last modified mp3 "index of" -html -htm -php -asp
"mozart" last modified mp3 "index of" -html -htm -php -asp

eg:

ragga - string color

gat decor - passion

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Labels: audio, google, html, search

According to James McGill

Street View in the API gives developers the power and control they need to embed this functionality in their own websites in whatever way they wish. The API allows you to embed one or multiple panoramas in any location on a site and move, remove, hide and unhide them as necessary.

» View Inline Demo

one feature is the ability to control the embedded viewer using Javascript functions on the GStreetviewPanorama object. The panTo function changes the current point of view by performing a smooth animation between the current and target view.

Google Streetview documentation, reference, demos

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Labels: ajax, cloud_computing, gadgets, google, html, javascript, maps, mashup, search, social_software, software, streetview, web_2.0, web_services

Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release.

We are aware that the quality of the search results is low..

Wikia's search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.

wikia.com

Labels: search

Are you most likely experiencing a well-known issue where Windows hangs while trying to search for network folders and printers before displaying anything to you?

How-To Geek weblog suggests turning off network folder and printer searching in Explorer's folder options. Just open Explorer, go to Tools -> Folder Options and click on the View tab. At the top of the File and Folders list, uncheck "Automatically search for network folders and printers

(screenshot)

Troubleshooting "My Computer" Opening Slowly on Windows XP

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Labels: networking, search, social_software, software, utilities