Google, for example, learns from your searches over time and personalizes your search results accordingly.
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And only Windows Phone connects apps to your searches making them easier to discover and use.
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Even with tools like Tweetdeck and HootSuite, which help you manage your searches and hashtags, it takes time and skill to sift through and mine the data.
Both Podscope and Podzinger allow you to save RSS feeds of your searches to view when your search term comes up again via a feed reader like Bloglines or Yahoo!'
Depending on how many Google products you use, it may have an archive of your searches, your emails, your chats, your phone calls, your documents, your private photos, and your private videos.
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Sign in to save your favorite places and quickly access all your past searches and directions from your computer, right on your phone.
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To end on a positive note, your Google searches will be a little more private moving forward, much to the dismay of website owners.
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Why not tie your anti-corruption searches into your PEP monitoring?
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The next application sitting on your mobile searches the image repository of Google and tells you the similar category birds are only available only in 6 locations around the world and this is one of them .
What you don't want to discover is that Santa's elves have been monitoring your Google, Bing and Amazon searches for gift ideas, then poring over your Facebook wall to see if you've been good enough to deserve them.
The new search feature searches across your entire iTunes library, including music, movies and TV shows.
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NextGuide searches all your media sources to find where your favorite shows are on air and online.
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A9 will also centrally store your bookmarks, previous searches and browse history, which is useful as that means you can access them from other computers, but also means that you need to be careful that you do not unwittingly leave important personal information about yourself on other people's computers.
But one idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf without you needing to type.
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But for one-off searches, Facebook is your weird-number-mystery-solving friend, unless users decide to seek out that second privacy setting.
It aims to let chatters rattle off multiple instant messages to many recipients at once, and it wants to let you do Internet searches tied to sites your friends like.
But we're of the opinion that your Facebook profile is just that: yours, and showing two little faces to every person who searches for you (or glances at your Twitter or clicks on your blog or looks you up on LinkedIn -- avatars be er'ywhere) is just a little...strange.
The purpose of Amplify is simple: it searches social media for conversations related to your business.
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Simply plug it in to your computer, then connect the other manufacturer's hard drive and it instantly becomes a totally automatic Clickfree backup drive that searches, organizes and backs up all of your PC data and digital files.
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Facebook needs to fully build this out, and grab a decent share of online searches, before you have to worry about conforming your marketing plan to account for it.
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Last year eBay released query suggestions, a feature that displays related searches and popular items below the search box as you type in your query.
We know that an ever-increasing number of employers are researching job applicants online, and owning your own website with your name in the domain gives you a great shot at showing up when someone searches for you.
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For more information on Smart Browsing keyword searches, content filtering, and the ability to find pages related to the ones your viewing, see the "Netscape Posts Communicator 4.5 Beta Today" and "Netscape Stabilizes Browser" links at right.
Because their searches seem to have been very productive, it is worth considering them in connection with your own e-mail practices.
Many talent searches will be conducted by software, especially the initial winnowing, so you want to make sure your name pops up when relevant keywords are searched.
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