search-engines
—>Ask.com has launched a new service—ask.com/deals—dedicated to finding the best deals online. We don't know how well it works, but we like the tabs that let you quickly jump to free shipping offers and printable coupons. It might be a decent starting place if you're in the market for something and need to comparison shop first. Update: Our readers say it's not worth your time, at least in its current state—results are paltry and frequently old or expired. More »
—>Richard thought he'd take advantage of a joint promotion between Microsoft's Bing search engine and Newegg that gives you 10 percent refund via PayPal if you click on a Newegg banner on Bing. More »
—>Netflix customer service says that search results are unaffected by sponsorships. Still, that doesn't explain what happened when Melissa Leff tried to add some movies to her Netflix queue: nearly every search she tried brought up the Andy Richter star vehicle Aliens in the Attic. More »
—>Bing vs. Google offers a side-by-side comparison that lets users see for themselves which search engine works better. We tried some searches, and our findings are inside. More »
—>Have you ever asked yourself, "Where can I get a restaurant kids' meal for free or cheap on a Tuesday within 10 miles of my house?" Even if you haven't, if you have kids of your own or visiting and want to take them out to eat, use KidsMealsDeals.com to find restaurants with kidlet meal promotions on any given day of the week. More »
—>American Airlines has dropped its trademark infringement lawsuit against the all-powerful Google Inc. The lawsuit stemmed from the fact that the search engine allows search terms like "AAdvantage," the trademark name of its frequent flier program, to be linked competitors' sites that have no connection with American. If there was ever any doubt that Google sells out "proper" net searches to the highest bidder, let that doubt be forever melted away. More »
—>Charlie has had it with the sleazy hard sell from a Redzee sales guy—after bugging her daily for a month, he started urging her to log in to "her account" on Redzee so she could see the amazingly valuable traffic he was generating for her site. "He kept saying that he had clients waiting out the door for the opportunity that he was offering us, and I quite bluntly told him that he should then answer their calls and accept their business because I was not interested." So what the heck is Redzee? More »
—> The European Union's data privacy regulator group said this week that an IP address "has to be regarded as personal data" when it's used to identify a person. Although this has no bearing on how IP addresses are used in the United States, it might trigger a change in data collection policies for companies like Google that use IP addresses in order to serve relevant search results and ads. More »
—>Why should we get all the fun of looking at AOL user search profiles? With these database programs people quickly scrapped together, now you can play too! More »
