Phil Bradley's weblog

FuzzFind Web Search

FuzzFind Web Search. is a meta search engine with a slight twist in that it also includes del.icio.us results into the mix, along with Google, Yahoo and Live. Results are very straightforward, based on links and position with search engines. Interesting to see how the results work out!

Pageflakes - Llyfrgell Ceredigion Library

Pageflakes - Llyfrgell Ceredigion Library. Another library has taken the plunge and created a Pageflakes Pagecast for the library. If you've got a moment - take a look, you don't need to have registered with Pageflakes to view it.

Phil Bradley's Blog

Now here's a puzzle, and I'd be very interested in your feedback and thoughts on this. My very first weblog, imaginatively entitled Phil Bradley's Blog was first written in February 2003, so I'm coming up to 5 years of blogging. Which is interesting, but not the point of this posting. I stopped writing it in December 2005. According to Bloglines it still has over 200 subscribers! Annoyingly, that's more than Bloglines reckons that I have for this one. (And that's ok, cos that's not an accurate figure).

How lackadaisical can people be?  Or have they just abandoned Bloglines? Or don't they ever check their feeds? And, if they were interested enough to subscribe in the first place, why weren't they interested enough to move across to the new version? (Before you ask, I did SIX posts to tell people it was happening, so it's not like they didn't know about it.)

Should it in fact matter? Actually, it probably shouldn't, and I should be fussing about more important things, but curiosity is a terrible  Mistress, and I wanna know!  More importantly, short of  contacting as many of them by hand as I could (and I'm not that bothered!)  does anyone have any good suggestions of getting these folks across from the old to the new?

Google privacy videos

Over at YouTube - Broadcast Yourself Google has created a channel in which they explain various aspects of privacy - in search, web history, with Picasa, Blogger and so on. Not sure if they've done one yet on Google Reader, but if you're concerned about privacy, these are worth taking a look at.

Web 2.0 Resources Search engine

I've created a  Web 2.0 Resources search engine. Feel free to try it out by following the link. Alternatively, try a search using the box below.

eBingBong

I got sent a link to eBingBong and from the first look, I was somewhat skeptical. It's got (IMO) a really stupid name, and the font is what I refer to as Google_Clone. The graphics are very basic, they don't even have their own email address, and their postal address is a c/o which isn't impressive. However, let's put that all aside for a moment. It's one of the 'people' moderated search engines in that you can vote for a site when it comes up in a result. This then affects future results.

The engine offers you the chance to search Web, Images, News, Video, and Music. There is also a variety of other features, such as a Forum, News, Q&A and so on. It also has advanced search features (not a huge number, but they have them and they work), and these are appropriate for the type of search.

It looks like an interesting engine which from the look of it could be useful, but it's very 'quiet' at the moment. Before it can really be taken seriously they need to do some work on the basics and get proper postal and email addresses.

Search Salad meta search engine

I'm only mentioning Search Salad for comprehensiveness. It's less than impressive - from the title -  Web Search Engine, Online Search Engine, Best Search Engine, Top Search Engine, Free Search Engine. through to the results. It's as basic as it gets, dragging in results from Google et al but displaying them one after another, rather than in a single list. To be honest, I couldn't even recommend taking a look at it.

Boxing Day busiest online shopping day in the UK during 2007

Boxing Day busiest online shopping day in the UK during 2007. This is according to Hitwise. No really big surprise since Boxing Day has been one of the very busiest days of the year for the last few years. Given that lots of commercial organisations started their sales early it just added to the hysteria. The top 5 retailers were Argos, Currys, Comet, M&S and Next. The graph gives an indication of how busy it was.

via kwout

vixy.net : Online FLV Converter

Link: vixy.net : Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!. This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers

Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers This is a search engine that Karen alerted me to, and it's based on the Google custom search option. Karen's done a great write up of it which is worth reading.

Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers via kwout

That's the screenshot. Her conclusion is: "Despite the glitch with the FT in my test search, and that there is no date sort option, Chipwrapper is a great tool for searching new and archival stories appearing in the leading UK papers. I recommend that you give it a go next time you need to research a UK story."