ResearchBuzz

TorrentSpy and ISOHunt to begin search filtering. I’m
only stunned they were able to hold out THIS long.

There are new digital maps resources at the National Library of Scotland.

Threadwatch closing down. That’s too bad.

Kool-Aid Pickles?????? Really? Ick.

New Virtual Ducati Museum.

Google Calendar now allows you to get event reminders via SMS. New?

Xerox semantic search.

70 Years of Indiana All-Stars.

Yahoo has announced that now Yahoo’s Image Search results will include Flickr photos! Over 300 million of them have been added to the Yahoo Image Search pool.

The direct link for Yahoo Image Search is http://images.search.yahoo.com/ . I did a search for snowstorm and saw that the Flickr images are denoted with “by on Flickr”. (You can click on the member name to see all their images on Flickr.) I was also reminded that Yahoo Image Search gives you a wallpaper search option while Google Images only goes up to “large” images.

Obviously this adds a huge pool of photos to Yahoo Image Search, and judging by the quality of what I’ve seen on Flickr this is a good thing. I am disappointed however that Yahoo didn’t take advantage of the fact that there’s a lot more data for these photos (like date taken, updated, tags, camera used, etc.) and make that part of the YIS advanced search. And no RSS feed either…. bummer…

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Search engine Vivisimo has announced that its clustering search engine Clusty.com has gone mobile, now available for the tiny screen at http://m.clusty.com .

I called it up on my cell phone and ran a few searches. It’s actually a little ways down the results page before you get to search results. I ran a search for Fred and got clusters first, then a stock quote, then a Wikipedia article, then content from Snopes (!), then image and news results, THEN Web pages. (I knew they were in there somewhere!) At the very bottom of the page there were links to refine your search (in the case of my Fred search suggestions included Fred Rogers, Fred Frith, Uncle Fred, Fred Eaglesmith…)

Once you find something you want to click on, Clusty slims them down for mobile viewing on the fly. I’m not sure how this is being done, but a Snopes page was basically stripped of its ads and nav, showing just the content. (As a mobile search user, I like this. As a site owner, I don’t think I would like this done to my site.)

I have been dividing Web searching on my phone between Google and Ask. I don’t think I’ll use Clusty for simple fact searching, but if I need to know about an event or famous person, or perhaps (as in one incident a couple of weeks ago) a particular kind of tree, I’ll try it first.