Search Briefs
+ Australia: CSIRO Spins Out Search Engine (via Sydney Morning Herald)
“Search engine technology developed by the CSIRO has spawned a new spin-off company called Funnelback to help drive the expansion of its Panoptic system further into international territories.” More about Panoptic here.
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+ Indeed.com (A Metasearch Engine for Jobs) Now Available via New York Times and About.com
“After searching the site’s own job listings at jobs.nytimes.com, users can click ‘Job Market Web Results’ to return more jobs from thousands of websites, powered by Indeed.” Clusty also offers access to Indeed.com (very useful). SimplyHired.com is another metasearch engine that scours numerous job databases and company sites for job listings. Both services offer excellent alerting tools.
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+ A Profile of the Founder of Blog/RSS Search Engine Technorati, Dave Sifry (via The Guardian)
