Okay, here's a new cool thing I've just found. There's a realtime web search engine called PubSub, that lets you subscribe to web search strings, and then have matches for that string pulled as links automatically to your browser.
It works like this. You go to the PubSub page at http://www.pubsub.com/index.php. Enter a search string, let's say "Ukrainian power industry." The site will save the search string, and rather than executing a single search and sending you a million results like Google, I'm guessing that PubSub has a spider or some kind of intelligent assistant that looks for new material that matches the string and sends it back to the PubSub page as it finds it.
If you download the PubSub sidebar, the links will be mirrored in your browser too. Pretty cool, though I haven't tested how effective it is yet. Getting too many hits on a string would render the thing just as useless as getting too few, so we'll see. Unfortunately there's no sidebar for Safari yet, but that will probably come. Or maybe I should just give in and switch to Firefox like all the other cool people I know.
Posted by case at May 16, 2005 12:45 AM