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Twitter is a mini-blogging platform that you can use to send messages of 140 characters or less to family, friends, or just the general Web community at large. It's also a great way to search the real-time Web.

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Recipe search by ingredient - how to do it on the Web

Tuesday November 24, 2009

recipe search by ingredient 'Tis the season for some serious baking, cooking, and recipe planning, and since I am a bit of a recipe junkie, I've been compiling a long list of great dishes I can't wait to try out via the Web.

Doing a recipe search by ingredient is useful, especially if you've got a few food items and no idea how to put them together. You can use any search engine you like to do this; simply input your ingredient, say, "chicken", and then "recipes". Got more than one ingredient? No problem: try chicken+lemon recipes (a little bit of Boolean search there).

There are also a few recipe search engines that let you search for multiple ingredients easily. For example:

Do you have a favorite recipe search tip or recipe search site? Please share in the comments.

More fun with food on the Web

Clusty for the Wii

Monday November 23, 2009
clusty wii

I've long been a fan of Clusty, a meta search engine with lots of interesting features, such as a government-specific search utility. Clusty has a great new optimized interface for the Nintendo Wii so you can browse it more easily via the Web; you can find it at wii.clusty.com. Best feature? Large buttons so you don't make time-consuming mistakes with your Wii controller.

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Search the Web with Nintendo Wii: Between championship games of baseball with my kids on the Nintendo Wii, I've had the chance to scope out a few Wii-friendly browsers and sites made specifically to search the Web from the Wii console, and here's what I've turned up so far.

Web search news roundup Nov. 14-20: Twitter premium accounts, Google Swirl, BehindBing

Saturday November 21, 2009

A lot of fun stuff happened this week in the world of Web search, so let's get right to it:

Did I miss something? If you've got a Web search news item you'd like to share, now is the time!

Do a HotFile search with FileLinkFind

Friday November 20, 2009

hotfile searchFile hosting sites, such as Gigasize, Ziddu, File Dropper, MediaFire, Megaupload, HotFile, or Rapidshare, typically do not offer you the opportunity to see what other people have uploaded to their servers. However, there are a lot of search engines that offer a way around that, and one of them is FileLinkFind.

FileLinkFind gives you the ability to search all the file hosting services listed above (along with a few more). Plus, you can subscribe to a topic you'd like to keep track of; for instance, say you want to see updates to your favorite public domain eBook....well, you can simply subscribe to that topic via RSS. Note: Please be aware that FileLinkFind (and similar file hosting search engines and sites) offer adult content and advertising, and that it is considered illegal in most countries to download copyrighted files.

More file hosting search engines

  • Rapidshare Search Engines: Rapidshare, one of the largest file hosting sites on the Web, does not offer a public search option to see what other people are uploading. However, you can get around that with Rapidshare search engines. Here are my picks for the top five Rapidshare search engines; they're all easy to use, offer advanced file hosting search capabilities, and best of all - they're free.
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