I search a lot and therefore made Google my home page. And if over 70% of the worlds internet traffic is going via Google, why not make it a destination rather than a launch platform?

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has made impressive gains in market share since launch. According to comScore Inc Bing’s Market share grew 4.5 % between July and August, giving it a total share of 9.3%, not bad for a search engine that only launched on the first of June. This puts Bing in third place behind Yahoo (19.3%) and Google (64.6%).

Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Hmmm, the joys of the quarter-life, mid-life, any-stage-life crises… I have them most days, and it gets quite tiring. Which is why Daytum Infoporn caught my eye recently, with its promises to help me “collect, categorise and communicate my everyday data”, and then “exploring” it all “to reveal the bigger picture”.

Fortunately, some clever web techies have lazy surfers like me sussed and have come up with an alternative to sites promising to keep my pulse on the buzz of what’s happening on the web, and then bombarding me with a constant stream of nothing even vaguely interesting. Like SwingVine.

Blind Search is a search tool that provides results to any search you type in from Google, Bing and Yahoo all on one page in three neat columns… but doesn’t tell you which column belongs to which. You then get to compare results side by side and vote for which one you think gave the best results. Once you’ve voted, the name of each search engine pops up at the top of each column.

Google Squared takes extracts data from Web pages and presents them in search results as squares in an online spreadsheet. It looks like a homework dream and for most of us it having many related search results on one page will save time and add information context. You can also start with a blank screen and build your own search spreadsheet….the applications are pretty powerful.

Wolfram Alpha has been hailed as a “computational knowledge engine” by British founder Stephen Wolfram (possibly a geek himself?), which in normal person speak means it’s an answer-engine that uses an actual “curated knowledge base of data” (okay, that’s kinda nerdy speak but you know what we mean) – more than 10 trillion pieces of data and over 50 000 algorithms – rather than rounding up websites based on keywords, to give you answers.

When searching with Google a problem for some is that each results page comes up with something different each time which means you might not find what you’re looking for.

The Web, where is it going?
So we all know web 1.0 was the start of this web numbering system. I suppose that is obvious being the number 1 and all. So for some of you that may or may not know, we are currently in the web2.0 phase. We have been here since the web [...]

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