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Last week we looked at how easy it is to leave footprints on the Web ; today we'll show you how easy it is to 0 diggs digg track them. Although search engines provide a great starting point when you're searching for someone online, with all of the new social sites that have popped up over the past few years, they're often just not enough. In our recent State of Blog Search 2009 post we discussed the various reasons you may choose to use any or all of the following blog search tools: Technorati , Google Blog Search , Ice Rocket , Ask.com Blogsearch , and FriendFeed . While these blog search engines are great to fill specific needs, they're also another great place to look for your footprints on the Web. Part of Nielsen-Online , BlogPulse highlights the top trends in the blogosphere and is mostly used to determine the hottest topics on the Web and how they got to be that way. But, its value as a personal monitoring tool can not be disregarded.
8 Tools to Track Your Footprints on the Web - ReadWriteWeb
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We are seeing a lot of activity in the world of advertising technology — from funding rounds to new product launches — but it’s not all good news, and inevitably consolidation is coming, too: Peer39 , an adtech provider based in New York and Israel, is getting bought by offline and online ad management and ad distribution company DG . The price: $15.5 million — roughly about half of what Peer39 had raised from investors over the course of six years. The cash-and-stock deal will see DG pay $10 million in cash, with the rest in shares, as well as a $2.3 million earn out payment, the companies noted in a statement . → Read More
Google has become the standard search engine of virtually every web-goer on the internet today. In fact “to Google” is pretty much synonymous with “to search”. But that certainly doesn’t mean that other search engines can’t do a decent, if not better, job and this list has been compiled for just this reason. So check out this catalog of awesome alternative search engines that are certain to help you search faster and more efficiently on that World Wide Web.
13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t | Make
Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I’ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I’ve tried to round them up below. The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, “iGod.”