Technology Archive | Page 92

The problem which most of us faced while making a search query on the Internet is that Google usually repeats its search results especially for popular search terms. While browsing through the first page of search results, you'd find that you've to keep clicking on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page in order to find what you really want or need. This has resulted in time wasting. If you're a frequent Googler, you'd have noticed that for most of its results, there is a link which says "Similar Pages". This useful feature enables users to search for web pages that have similar content to a given site. However, there are some downsides of these feature. This is when SimilGoogle comes in handy. Dubbed as a way to "Discover A New Web", Similgoogle is a newly-launched search engine that make use of Google's Similar Pages to help Internet users to enhance their search experience on the net." title="SimilGoogle: “The Search Engine Which Can Change The World. Bye-bye Google-web!”" />

Forget about the Twitter's "boring" public timeline which is filled with text. You can now easily visualize tweets using Flittr.cc. A mash up of the two social platforms - Twitter and Flickr, Flittr was developed by James Harton in March 2009 and it's powered by Rails. Bascially, what this interesting app does is that it grabs the latest tweet from the public timeline and fiddles with text to generate the sixteen most suitable pictures related to the tweet on Flickr. It will then displays them as a mosaic." title="Twitter + Flickr = Flittr" />

OutWit Docs is a simple WebTop Document Finder created by the folks at OutWit Technologies. Basically, what is does it that it allows you to search through Websites and search engines for documents and it will present the results as an operating system would, either in icon view or as a list of files. A free Firefox 3 extension compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, this useful add-on automatically searches the Web for various types of documents and then downloads multiple files directly onto your hard disk. The search results are presented in one, easy-to-use window so there is no scrolling through pages of results to find the information you are seeking. OutWit Docs explores any Web site and common search engines and will find multiple types of documents, including Office (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX), CSV, SWF, or PDF files, simultaneously or you can chose a specific type. You can do many searches in a row, the program will keep the list of results for each search, catch the files, sort and filter them, and automatically saves multiple files all at once." title="OutWit Docs: A Firefox Add-on That Automatically Searches The Web For Various Types Of Documents" />