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are you one of those people who only gives an ordure about the first ten results from a search engine? using a mobile device and just want an easier way to search without having to gaze upon herve-villechaize-sized search engine interfaces? yeah? still worried that you’ll get the runs from using elGoog? okay, here’s an interesting item to keep tabs on: web searching by email….you’ll notice the use of capital letters in this blurb because my ‘brief’ was reprinted in the fordyce letter (you can also read it here)…(btw, note to self 12/04: the best place to read up on ACCMAIL is at this wicked gem of a site)

â€?I’ve been bothered immensely by the challenge of storing specific searches of interest on various search engines, either forced to bookmark searches (tedious for organization), record queries (also tedious) and so spent a great deal of time looking over ‘web search by email’.

For those who don’t follow this, the basic idea behind hosts of such services (queries all run through volunteer servers) - the original idea - was to deliver internet search to disparate geographies plagued by low quality internet access, zero browser access, and minimal access to email - so the summary goal: allow only email users to view search results via email without requiring a browser, or allow users to minimize required browser time (e.g. go to a specific site, versus searching and then viewing multiple results, etc.)

I’ve tested many of these, very many. if you’d like to research your own, check out any search engine and search for ‘web search by email’ (goes by multiple terms, from accmail to emailsearch etc.)

So far, the simplest and most effective one I’ve found is for Google Search by Email hosted by a co called ‘capeclear’ - to run a search, you simply put in your query in the subject line just as you would within a search bar (replete with all forms of syntax, etc) and send an email to: google@capeclear.com

The server will respond within a couple of minutes with summary search results and links. In this way, you can quickly archive the email, import to a folder (for any research, contact or organization) and easily retrieve and modify the subject line (e.g. modify, edit and forward back to the server again and again and again)…Certainly an interesting workaround to archiving results, though not for everybody.â€?

Many thanks to David for his permission to reprint this tip. Anyone interested in the new fields of Human Capital Research or Competitive Intelligence should sign up for his free mailing list via Yahoo Groups. Anyone can join by sending email to passingnotes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and request list membership. I signed up a while back and get excellent, relevant information emailed to me each week. Once a member, you can also go onto the Yahoo Groups website, enter the members area for this group and post you own questions or even answer someone else’s. - Mark E. Berger

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