By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

When I was at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley last month, I felt like a dinosaur standing next to the chunky computers on display. Ironically, I had my laptop strapped around my shoulder with my iPhone tucked away in the front pocket.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Google is getting smarter — it wants to personalize 20 percent of your searches. By using cookies as tags, Google can cater to your interests and your location.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

If you wanted to set your own blog up today, it would take you less than 10 minutes and would cost about $20. I wanted to set up a personal blog about genetics that I’ve been talking about for weeks.…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

If there is such a thing as good Internet surfing habits, I don’t think I have them. I couldn’t find what I was looking for last night. Google has set my expectations high. Anything I think can be found online, regardless…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about WebMii, a service that ranks your web presence based on what it finds about you using Google, Yahoo, Bing and a variety of…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Tired of scrolling the News Feed on your Facebook page? Enter the search world of Cuil. The Cuil search engine will index your friends’ profiles, as a side to the regular web results.

On the Cuil page, use Read the full story »

Tags: Cuil , Facebook , LinkedIn , Search , social search , Twitter , Yahoo

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

My brother mentioned a site to me that I had not heard of prior to today called Search3.

Very simply it allows you to initiate a single search and display results from the three major search engines:…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

If you can’t decide which search engine you really prefer using to find that nugget of information, you may need something other than a search engine. What you could be looking for is a metasearch tool like Read the full story »

Tags: InfoSpace , metasearch , Real-Time , Search , search engines , Twitter

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

Digging through some old emails this evening and found a link to download and use the mobile version of Bing. I’ve been happy with Bing in what I’ve used. Sometimes I…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

It’s not a done deal quite yet, but there’s plenty of discussion hitting the airwaves today about the agreement reached between Microsoft and Yahoo to change the…

by Senior Staff Writer – Tyler Knott Gregson

This one could be, and we’re stressing could be here, a very big “uh oh” for the rest of the real estate world. As you already know, Google is without a shadow of a doubt, the most dominant and powerful internet company.…

by Senior Staff Writer – Tyler Knott Gregson

Uh oh, that’s all I can think to say. Looks like the social networking world might be getting a bit, well, busier if these reports are true. On the one hand it’s good that Yahoo! has admitted defeat to Google when it…

by Senior Staff Writer – Tyler Knott Gregson

Looks like Microsoft still has a few tricks up their sleeves, and they are about to unveil one of them this very week. That’s right, word is that Microsoft’s new and improved search is going to see the light of day this…

By: Senior staff writer – Easton Ellsworth

I had the opportunity to follow up on our previous article about local services price comparison search engine LocalPrice with one of its co-founders, Scott Thompson. Here’s the interview.

Why did you decide to enter the online space that…

By: Senior staff writer – Easton Ellsworth

BackType is being backed bigtime – thus saith TechCrunch.

That’s right – the conversation tracking service has just closed a $300,000 financing round via True Ventures.

I used to be a coComment power user – one of the most active…

By: Senior staff writer – Easton Ellsworth

When was the last time you went online to look for a nearby dentist, professional mover or pest control business?

Okay, how about the last time you looked online for a local service professional or company of any kind?

Exactly. We do it…