5.21.2005

:: Magic & Google

Google would love to be the #1 search destination on the planet. They continually offer new services.. some valuable, some not so..

In our quest to master magic, it's to our advantage to be able to take full advantage of all the new services Google has to offer.

One of the new services -"Video Search" ( http://video.google.com/ ), offers the user the chance to access both online video and web pages with still frame pictures and matching text. At the moment, most of the returned results apply primarily to television related video. But, I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before you can enter 'ambitious ace's' and get several pages of online related video.

You can also accomplish the same thing by going to http://video.yahoo.com . You will only get results relating directly to online video's, which may not be a bad thing - depending on your intentions..

"Web Alerts" - go to ( http://www.google.com/alerts ), enter a search phrase or term, and be alerted via email any time a new article or web page is indexed in the Google database. Enter something like 'free online card tricks' or 'magic of Jeff McBride' and be notified of any new additions to the web related to your keywords. this is an excellent way of staying one step ahead of your competition.

If I weren't in such a generous mood at the moment, I wouldn't tell you of these little secrets...



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