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Google Custom Search Engine

New from Google: the Google Custom Search Engine. You can create your own bespoke version of Google to install on your website or blog. You can limit which websites it searches, for example (making it a rival for services such as Rollyo) You can adjust what it looks like to fit the design of your site, and you can invite your community to contribute to it.

Link via BBC, which mentions the example of a climate change website which has deployed this tool so that only sites that they consider ‘solid and reliable’ rather than ‘bogus’ in their field are searched.

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Newsreader Software

My favourite online news aggregator Rojo (so useful with its tagging facility, amongst others) did a relaunch last Sunday. They seem to have addressed the main problem with the service, namely its inability to beat a milk float in a race. It’s now much swifter. Well worth your investigation if you don’t use it.

Rojo – What Rojo Members are Reading

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It’s Those Lovely People At eBible Again

Having mentioned on my blog profile the interest in my blog when I gave out eBible beta test invitations, I apparently so amused the eBible guys that they are (a) sending me a t-shirt for my troubles and (b) giving me yet more invitations to dole out for any of you who would like one. So to reiterate: eBible is still in private beta, it won’t be publicly available for a while yet. If you’d like to start using and testing this Bible search site with new extra whizzy features then leave me a message here on the blog. As before, it will be strictly first come, first served.

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It’s Those Lovely People At eBible Again

Having mentioned on my blog profile the interest in my blog when I gave out eBible beta test invitations, I apparently so amused the eBible guys that they are (a) sending me a t-shirt for my troubles and (b) giving me yet more invitations to dole out for any of you who would like one. So to reiterate: eBible is still in private beta, it won’t be publicly available for a while yet. If you’d like to start using and testing this Bible search site with new extra whizzy features then leave me a message here on the blog. As before, it will be strictly first come, first served.

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Blog Holiday

I’m about to take some leave for a fortnight and I’m going to have a holiday from the computer during that time. I won’t be able to approve any comments or trackbacks to the blog before 27th May.

Just one plea before I go, though: I’m still getting regular requests for eBible beta tester invitations. Can I refer you to the post that said I had given out all my invitations? If anyone would still like one, I’m afraid the best advice I can give is what I have mentioned in several emails, namely that you need to go to the eBible home page and submit your email address in order to join the queue.

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