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Singaporean Start-up takes on Google in Patent Search
Singaporean Start-up Patsnap launched the Alpha-version of their portal last week which aims to bring patent search to a new level of simplicity and enable research to be done more easily. This puts the company in direct competition with Google’s Patent Search functionality that was launched in 2006. Google’s Patent Search, in my opinion, has [...]
Geek Book Review - The Search by John Battelle
The full name of this book is actually “The Search - How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”. The author of this book John Battelle was the co-founding editor of Wired Magazine and is now the founder and chairman of Federated Media, a company that manages advertising for [...]
Bloggers mock Singapore’s attempt at a Search Engine
Singapore’s premier research facility, A*STAR (Agency for Technology and Research) has launched a competition called “The Star Challenge 2008″ last week to develop “a rich media search engine that will be smart enough to identify text, audio and video containing any word, even if that word, or search term, has not yet been tagged in [...]
Google Launches Cool New Feature For Checking Your Flights!
Google announced on its blog this morning a cool new feature on its search engine. Now you are able to check if the flight is on time or delayed just by typing the flight number into the google search bar and a result like the one you see below will appear. Apparently, Google gets this [...]
Mahalo.com, Better Search Results than Google?
Mahalo is a human powered search engine that gives you results to your search terms that are hand-picked by their staff. They have around 40 full time staff adding result pages for each search term daily and are estimated to have 10,000 result pages by the end of the year. Each result page can then [...]
