Archive for the ‘Meta & Federated Search’ Category

Science.gov Increases Number of Sites, Databases Available

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

We just noticed that Science.gov the well-known service that simultaneously searches multiple U.S. government databases and web sites that contain science data is now accessing material from 38 databases (up from 36) and 1,950 selected websites (up from 1850).

Direct to Science.gov

Meta Search for Video Content: OvGuide.com

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

This database aggregates video content from YouTube, Hulu, Blinkx, and more than 3000 other sites. It can be a real timesaver.

Direct to OvGuide.com

Learn More About OvGuide (via WPN)

Briefly: Say Hello to MelZoo Search and More

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

+ Web Search: Say Hello to the MelZoo Split-Screen (via itBusiness.ca.)

+ Spain’s Prado Teams Up With Google Earth (via AP)

+ Joshua Schachter, the Founder of Delicious, Now Working at Google
Note: Yahoo acquired Delicious in 2005.

+ UK: 192.com Adds 2009 Electoral Database to Offerings

• 22 million names and addresses that have just been added
• 3.5 million of these are for people that registered at a new address last year
• Plus, a final release of an additional 3 million records will be available next month!

+ DiscountMore.com Re-Launches Comparison Shopping Search Engine
Federated search across 26 shopping sites.