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How to read when time is short. Read the “How To Find The Essential 20%” section carefully. Another interesting post from Bert on How to Learn More With No Extra Effort uses the principle in the post below to suggest we take a lot of breaks while learning. i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdanieg. the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind is amazanig. aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. the rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. amazanig huh? yaeh and yuo awlyas thohgut slpeling was ipmorantt. ...

RSS clustering is about doing what Gmail does on news sources, to RSS feeds of your choice. Comments Arun 28 Jul 2005 4:01 pm: How do you get to all these amazing links? S Anand 29 Jul 2005 6:01 am: Mainly using del.icio.us these days. Arun 29 Jul 2005 2:30 pm: Ah, okie… But there is so much crap there…You are darn good at filtering stuff then! :-) Arun 29 Jul 2005 2:36 pm: btw, dunno if it’s a bug, but there is a problem with the cursor in this text book. If I leave the page and return to the text box after i start typing, am not able to get the cursor to refocus on the text box. It just disappears. In firefox. RaM 29 Jul 2005 4:36 pm: Update the placement section also RaM 29 Jul 2005 4:44 pm: Your Placement Section is static. Pls Update it. Your search tactics are very good Dhar 30 Jul 2005 5:28 am: Arun, I too have had that problem with the cursor. Howie 30 Jul 2005 7:56 am: few links are dead in Placement section S Anand 31 Jul 2005 9:07 pm: Could you give me a step-by-step regarding the cursor problem? I couldn’t reproduce it. Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:50 pm: http://digg.com/spy has an excellent collection of whacky/interesting links. And they use Ajax too. Another nice place to pick up good interesting posts.

Amazon has a new feature called concordance that shows the frequently used words in a book like a tag list.

Google search history is like a9 – it remembers your searches. But why is that useful? Comments sathish 29 Jun 2005 7:51 am: I found it useful recently.. I remembered that I got a link when I searched for a particular term and by going through the search history, I figured out link I had looked earlier. S Anand 29 Jun 2005 8:49 am: Ah… that makes sense. I use the history in the toolbar. Guess this mirrors that. sathish 4 Jul 2005 9:25 am: read more about the google personalization from mit tech review blog - http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/wo/wo_070105hellweg.asp?trk=top

Searching the invisible web. Comments S Anand 11 Apr 2005 3:42 am: More here

Interesting article on The Economist on the value of a cluttered desk. … the assumption that filers can find stuff more quickly is wrong. Filers, they say, “are less likely to access a given piece of data, and more likely to acquire extraneous data…” (There’s a “Clean your desk” initiative at BCG Mumbai going on right now.)

Vivisimo, a document clustering service. As far as I can understand, it collects data from multiple sources and clusters it into hierarchies. Automatically. Sounds good, and seems to work reasonably well on Net searches too. At the very least, it’s a fresh way of searching. via Markose

The Oracle of Google is the coolest Google app so far. Ask it a question with 4 choices, and it uses Google to guess the answer. It knows that Abdul Kalam is India’s President, though it did prefer Vajpayee to former Presidents. via Google Weblog

The winner of the Google programming contest.

SearchOnline meta-search engine. Seems quite good so far.

The original Google paper.

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

Well connected. A database of sites and e-mails that people trust. You can build your own trust network on this. (Given that Google once started out as google.stanford.edu, I wonder what this one could become.)

Google news. Life just gets better by the day.

The evolution of Google post the Sep 11 crash.

Cybelle lives in AgentLand. She’s 100% virtual (having admitted it, she asked if I was disappointed), and guides people through their site. It’s a new and interesting way of having a search engine on a site.

Subjex, like Ask Jeeves, handles searches in plain English.

The subject-specific Scout reports, which were a prime source of my information, are about to be discontinued from the end of the month. (No funds.)

I just realised that website search engines aren’t the only place you can search for information. There’re search engines for FAQs, webrings, mailing lists, newsgroups, encyclopaedias.

TechTarget is a search engine on all kinds of IT topics, likd Linux, EBusiness, SAP, etc.

It’s finally happened. The Internet has grown to the point were a meta-search engine (a search engine to search among search engines) has come up. Lookoff.com.

Websearch has an interesting set of articles on how to search the Web. Makes interesting reading at the very least. But more importantly, it tells you so many ways of searching that you never knew existed.