Asian Cinema Search engine

Search engine Topics:Asian Cinema

Contribution: [Volunteer to contribute]

Results hosted at:Google

What's Interesting:Its claim to fame "Asian Cinema Search includes sites with coverage of East Asian cinema. Whenever possible, sub-sections of individual sites are included with separate tags to make search refinements as focused as humanly possible.".

You get a large number of result refinements. Refine results for doom:
Reviews		News		Trailers		Forums
Blogs		Wikis		Databases		Links
Distributors		Official Sites		Interviews		Articles

You can compare the results from the Japanese Cinema CSE with google.

Try it:Asian cinema search

Google results with a time line

Google has introduced a new experimental method to list results using a time line. The results such as this one on "nanotechnology"will show the results based on the word and the date it is related to.

The idea works fine with the examples they have given, but for some of the newer words created post google, they better use the information as to when it was cached. If the cache is not backed up, its hight time they started recording the dates on which new words were found by the google bot. This has many advantages to the casual linguist and also provide a more reliable time line for the future.

I wonder whether the site map can have data which can be used to build the time line. The map view is more of a browser version of google earth.

Google through the ages-from 1998 to 2007

The Google search engine started sometime in 1998. The page format has not changed much! since that time. Although Google homepage is controversially the worlds costliest piece of real estate, it still remains simple and elegant. In this post i track the changing views of the homepage using the waybackmachine

The first page dates back to November 11th 1998. It has links to Google Search Engine Prototype
and
Might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date.

Google search engine alpha version.
The first ever screen shot of Google would look something like the one below:


I wonder why the "!" is used so frequently. May it is some other character. But the interesting part is that way back then, they had people subscribing to to Google updates. And even custom search engines on Linux and Stanford.The I am feeling lucky button was there alright. A huge link to about Google.

The beta version had more links and looked as below:
Thats colorful. And a lot more links than the previous version.And making Google as your default was much more complicated than just clicking on a link.I will probably track Google further throught the years in my next post.

FLADGE the SUGGESTION ENGINE

Search engine Topics:It will sugggest topics for you.

Contribution: You can try the Suggest.

Results hosted at:Own site

What's Interesting:If you are just wanting to find some random stuff. This is a good one. It suggests a topic randomly. You can even select one of the custom topics. The selected topic is then presented as a google search result.

Its presetly only having an english interface at present.

Try it:Suggestion engine

search engine indexing another search engine?

The experiment i was trying as per my earlier post has paid off. Google will index the search results of live search. The people at live search mostly have not put a robot.txt file to their results. And what do we have. A wonderful result in the form of googleoop.To make it immortal i took a screen shot as well. It is the third result.

Google however will not index its own search results as might be expected. The only page that appears if you do sites restricted search for http://www.google.com/search is the site itself. So no wonder it will not enter a infinite loop. Yahoo seems to be of the results though.