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Who am I? Search me.
Monday, April 27th, 2009 | Author:

Imagine the love child of a vanity search engine and iTunes’ cover flow feature. If you can picture that, you can picture searchme. Just enter your name, or someone else’s, and search. (You can also limit by such options as blogs, shopping, libraries, and others.) Your results will be displayed, and browseable, in a very iTunes-esque way. I’ve tested it on myself and I was impressed. It even found a few sites I had accounts with that I’d forgotten about.

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Tweet Congress
Monday, February 09th, 2009 | Author:

Tweet CongressWant to know if your federal representatives are on Tiwtter? Want to nudge them to participate if they aren’t? Check out Tweet Congress for all your congressional Twitter information.

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The Simple Google Slapper
Wednesday, February 04th, 2009 | Author:

google_logo Sometimes you just want to smack someone upside the head and tell them “just search Google already!” Here’s one way to do it for you passive-aggressive types courtesy of Gog.is:

Simply write http://gog.is and put the keywords in the URL, like this: http://gog.is/clerks. This will redirect them to the Google search for clerks.

So the next time someone asks you how to remove spyware on their windows box, tell them to http://gog.is/remove,windows,spyware.

Or simply http://gog.is/install+ubuntu.
You can even write http://gog.is/what/is/love.

Prefixes, making life even easier
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In order to form a more perfect robots.txt file
Monday, January 26th, 2009 | Author:

308200734_03cad094dd_m A robots.txt file is something you can place on your Web server and most search engine crawlers will pay attention to its instructions. Those instructions are which directories should not be indexed by those crawlers. Well, since mid 2003 when it was first noticed, the robots.txt file for the Bush White House Web site has ranged from 1000 to more than 2400 lines long.  That was thousands of directories worth of content in whitehouse.gov which was not findable via such search engines as Google. As of mid-day this past January 20, 2008, it is now just four lines long, only three of which actually prevent crawlers from indexing certain directories. (And for the record, most Web masters will agree that these three lines are perfectly reasonable to block.)

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Where is my user guide?
Thursday, January 08th, 2009 | Author:

Download user guide, user manual, owner manual and instructions guideAdmit it, you’ve thrown out the manual for your toaster haven’t you? How about the manual for your heated electric back massager pad? Regretting that decision now? Check out diplodocs.com and find almost any manual for any brand of consumer electronics in hand, printable, PDF.

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Who is this person?
Friday, December 26th, 2008 | Author:

image Here’s another Firefox add-on for you. Once you’ve installed Who Is This Person?, just highlight a name in any Web page, right click, and send their name off to LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google, or one of several other sources. You never know what you’ll find out about someone.

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