Category: Search
Webaroo.
Company offering ‘web on a hard drive‘ where users can search the internet without actually being connected. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006.
PaperClick.
Cell phone technology that allows users to capture bar codes and get web-based manufacturer’s content delivered to their screens. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
Trace Archive.
Genetic database that stores DNA sequences records its billionth entry. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
GWIE.
Swiss group believes that they can make Google eat itself. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
Encyclopedia Brown.
Boy uses his spit and the Internet to track down biological father. (via)
Post date: Thursday, November 3rd, 2005.
Copykat.
Recipe database for making food that tastes like your favorite restaurant dishes. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
Earth, documented.
Google to have all of the world’s information available for search in 300 years. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 11th, 2005.
President of the Internet.
Anyone can run for President of the Internet. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2005.
Searching for love.
Man proposes marriage to his girlfriend via Web search. (via)
Post date: Monday, October 3rd, 2005.
GooGhoul.
Search engine that finds upcoming Halloween events in your area. (via)
Post date: Saturday, October 1st, 2005.
Pureprofile.
A reverse search engine that allows consumers to publicly advertise the products they are seeking and for the marketers of these products to reach them. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
World Wide Wiki.
Some insights into Wikipedia, ‘the most detailed collection of information in history’. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.
Desktop archaeologist.
Italian computer programmer has discovered ancient Roman ruins using Google Earth. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 15th, 2005.
Social web.
Craigslist Lost & Found for New Orleans being used to track lost family and friends displaced by Hurricane Katrina. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Hans Brix.
Kim Jong Il won’t be so ronery anymore now that you can search all of his memorable propaganda at NK News.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
Didn’t you notice?
Del.icio.us had a minor database issue yesterday and comes clean, quickly. Kudos Joshua.
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
Iwon.
Search using Blingo, a Google-based search that will randomly award prizes. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
Personalized search.
Make any word(s) look like the Google logo. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
Lost and found.
If you can’t find it on Google, go to CantFindItOnGoogle.com. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 11th, 2005.
txt msg converter.
Convert your English to TXT or vice versa with Transl8tit. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 9th, 2005.
Who is and who is’nt.
The site to help you find out who’s alive and who’s not. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 18th, 2005.






