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Wendy's Web Search Blog August 2008 Archive

By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search

Can you conquer this Web search scavenger hunt? I bet you can!

Saturday August 30, 2008
September's Back to School Scavenger Hunt is all about Harry Potter and his own back to school adventures: Hogwarts, professors, school, books, and more. Test your Web search skills! ... Read More

Bigfoot, Chupacabras, and vampire dogs - what's going on?

Thursday August 14, 2008
While I was idly browsing through the news this morning, a few items jumped out at me that were a bit....unusual. Let's see if you agree with me once ... Read More

Share your location with Yahoo's Fire Eagle

Wednesday August 13, 2008
Yahoo has just opened up Fire Eagle, a simple service that updates your physical location across any Web services you choose to update it with. Once you sign up, Fire ... Read More

How do I find blogs that I'm interested in?

Tuesday August 12, 2008
Blogs - basically online journals - are some of my favorite sites to keep up with, mostly because I love getting to know the unique personalities behind the blogs, and ... Read More

Ten places to find the 2008 Summer Olympics on the Web

Monday August 11, 2008
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are in full swing now until August 24. Here are ten places you can find more Olympic information, medal winners, photo databases, updated news, and ... Read More

Find Multimedia with a Free eCourse

Saturday August 9, 2008
The Web is a great place to find free multimedia of all kinds on the Web: free movie downloads, free videos, free music: you name the multimedia, you can ... Read More

Spock: it's not just for Vulcans anymore

Wednesday August 6, 2008
Spock, the name of my favorite Star Trek character EVER, is also a search engine that focuses completely on people-oriented results. Find out more about Spock and how you ... Read More

Use SlyDial to get through awkward situations

Saturday August 2, 2008
SlyDial is a new Web service that helps you leapfrog straight to someone's voicemail. Now, when would this come in handy? Let's see: Say you forgot your Aunt Wilma's birthday ... Read More

Presenting: delicious 2.0 (finally!)

Friday August 1, 2008
I've been a part of delicious, the phenomenal social bookmarking service, since just after its inception in 2003 (if you don't know what delicious is, please check out What is ... Read More
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