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Google Wonder Wheel – A search feature and a keyword research tool

Google Wonder Wheel is a a feature of Google Search which shows related search terms to the current searched query in a pictorial format, just like a wheel. This gives you more options to gain more information.

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Search EVERYTHING quickly in Windows 7

While the Windows 7 search function is vastly improved, Everything is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by file name instantly for Windows. It locate files and folders by name before you blink your eyes!

Bing Search Query Language Tips & Tricks

Bing has released a download documenting the Bing Query Language’ advanced operator syntax. Bing offers several ways to augment a basic Bing query. For the most part, we talk about using the Bing API to tailor requests. However, there is [...]

Enhance Search with Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs

The Windows Search service can be enhanced by installing the Microsoft Filter Pack, which provides additional IFilters to support critical search scenarios across multiple Microsoft Search products.

Fix: Download Windows Search to improve history & favorites results

Whenever you type anything in your Internet Explorer 8 address bar, you get the following message: “Download Windows Search to improve history and favorites results“, then you can do the following to stop this prompt!

Decade in Search : InfoGraphic from Razorfish

Razorfish has released an awesome info-graphic, charting a decade in search – it needs a great monitor to see the whole thing, but the draggable canvas effect is pretty nice.

FIX: Search box does not display search results correctly in Windows 7

Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve an issue, where the Search programs and files box may not be displaying the search results correctly in Windows 7 and in Windows 2008 R2.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit from Microsoft

The free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Analyzer helps you increase traffic and visitors to your site, and as a result can increase the revenue you directly or indirectly make through your web-site. The SEO Toolkit Analyzer increases traffic to [...]

Google x4 is GoogleGoogleGoogleGoolge

If you are in one of those searching moods and have plenty of search tabs open you might tend to lose the search results. GoogleGoogleGoogleGoolge lets you search Google x4 times on the same open tab!

Google Homepage through the years … Changes again!

If you have opened the Google homepage recently, you may have noticed one thing immediately!

The Real Live Search

See your browser and Bing’s AJAX APIs make sweet love!

Study : Google vs Bing – Search Engine Preferences

This study by Catalyst Group has gathered users’ general impressions of the Google and Bing search engines, including overall functionality, presentation of content, and overall fit with user expectations and needs.

Change the Location of Search Index in Windows 7.

You may, if you wish, chose to change the default location of search index in Windows 7. It is, by default, stored at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data folder, which is a hidden system folder.

The Blind Search Engine Test – Google vs Bing vs Yahoo

What happens when you do a search that doesn’t have branding. Are you swayed by the branding of your favourite search engines? Take the Blind Search Engine Test.

Download Windows 7 Federated Search Provider’s Guide

This updated document from Microsoft describes how to build a web-based data source that can be searched using Windows federated search. Following the best practices described here, you can enable rich integration of your remote data sources with Windows Explorer [...]

How To Create Windows 7 Federated Search Connectors

Federated search enables users to search remote data sources from within Windows Explorer. Remote data sources make themselves searchable with a simple web front end that exposes their search capabilities. In fact, some data sources may already support the minimum [...]

Download Search Connectors for Windows 7 Federated Search

TWC Forum Member iMav has created some Search Connectors for Windows 7. In Windows 7 searching for content, directly from the explorer.exe, on remote locations, has been enabled. Integrating such federated search into Windows gives users the benefits of using [...]

Create your own custom Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8

The new Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 help you quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without navigating to other websites to get things done. Simply highlight text from any webpage, and then click on the blue Accelerator icon that appears [...]

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