Archive for the ‘Guest Authors’ Category

Why is the search “HowTo” space so popular?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Stephen Chao is co-founder and CEO of WonderHowTo.com
People love to query HowTo. In fact, it is the number one query out there. Bill Tancer, general manager of the internet research firm, Hitwise, in his 2008 book Click summarizes: “‘How to’ queries represented nearly 3% of all search queries in the United States, making it the [...]

The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Guest author Larry Ferlazzo
Original post here and Larry’s blog here.
So many excellent search engines have opened-up for business since I published last year’s The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2007, and I expect that trend to continue. I’ve been trying to keep that list updated, as I do for all of my [...]

Pandia: 3 great ways to find free images

Friday, November 7th, 2008

If you are looking for images for your blog or a PowerPoint presentation, don’t go to Google image search. Search Flickr instead, using one of these three excellent search tools.
Google image search returns lots of hits, but the results can only be sorted by image size. Even the advanced image search option lacks one important [...]

From Russia with Love: ASE Goes Independent

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I have got news from Charles Knight, founder and editor of AltSearchEngines, the leading online destination about new search engines around the world, that AltSearchEngines.com has become independent.
From June 2007 till now, the site was part of the ReadWriteWeb network of sites. According to Compete, AltSearchEngines.com had 40 thousand unique visitors from the U.S. in [...]

Omgili - Who will be the next president?

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

For the past year and a half we had this question on the front page of Omgili. We followed the hopefuls before anyone knew it’s going to be McCain against Obama, and the Pailin/Biden running mates. In three days we will all know the answer, but in the meantime we can bring our best educated [...]

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