I consume content every day and work hard to archive the key elements of knowledge that I may wish to read again or use at a later date.

To that end, I bookmark extensively with Delicious , clip content to Evernote , and read content offline with Instapaper. I also favorite a lot of tweets for future reading, mainly because they have interesting articles I wish to read and ‘bank’ for a later use.

But when it comes to looking for content or information, I still Google first. I have to remind myself to check Delicious, evernote and Instapaper as well.

So this started me thinking, I want the ability to centralise all my sources into one easily searchable place.  So, I started thinking about ‘creating’ my own search engine. A quick Google showed me that wasn’t to be an easy task so I started thinking about how I could centralise my sources to feed into my Google search results when I typed.

This is where I have got to:

1. Use Evernote & Chrome

Evernote has a Chrome Plugin that allows you to both crop articles and also to include Evernote results in your Google results.

This is a great service as it means my Evernote articles are queried for every Google query I make. As you can see the results will indicate if I have articles of relevance but I have to click through to see the results. Not perfect but a good start.

2. Feed Evernote

As I am not able to use Evernote for all my ‘digital filing’ I need to feed what I can to Evernote. After a bit of searching, it seems I cannot simply feed Evernote with RSS feeds (no that would be too easy.) So, I need to feed them through email.

For this I have been using two functions:

i. For emails I use Gmail’s Filter function to forward specific emails (newsletters, press releases) directly to Evernote.

ii. For RSS feeds I convert them through Feed my Inbox. I then send them to my Gmail account and using Filters, send them into Evernote.

Now I am feeding about 100 articles a day into Evernote, I can start to achieve a more personalised search experience.

It is not perfect and I do hope someone comments with a ‘just do this’ solution which will make it much cleaner. Have you tried personalising your search? Do let me know how you get on

 

 

 

These are my links for May 26th through May 28th:

• The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals – Microsoft announced today its Bing search engine, a "decision engine" that will replace live.com worldwide as of June 3. A distant third place in the search engine game, Microsoft hopes that this engine will help it gain more searcher share by delivering results and content more relevant to how users actually search. What makes Bing different from existing search engines?
• Micropayments for content and services | Contenture – Every time a Contenture user visits your web site, you make money. Your slice of every visitor's monthly payment is based on how many visits they made to your site divided by the total number of visits they made to all Contenture sites.
• Mozilla Labs Jetpack | Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web – Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play
• Linkbait Writing Services | Unique linkbait writing services to help your website grow and get more traffic. – At Linkbait Writing Services, we are determined to bring your website or blog more traffic by creating quality linkbait articles. Our small team of writers strive to create linkbait articles that will not only help you reach the front page of social bookmarking sites like Digg and Stumble Upon, but also bring you traffic for the lifetime of your blog. Save your time for marketing your blog and interaction with your readers and let us take care of the time consuming task of building linkbait articles.
• WordPress Designers – Premium WordPress Themes – WordPress Designers is a small team of talented developers and creative designers. We pride ourselves on our intimate knowledge or WordPress and our ability to push it to its limits. Since discovering the WordPress platform several years ago, we have strived to learn as much as we could about it so that we could bring you some of the most creative and well coded themes on the market.
• Outlaw Design Blog » 34 Brilliant Ads on Semi Trucks – a great post showing loads of advertising designs on lorries
• ConceptShare: – ConceptShare is a simple, cost-effective tool for gathering feedback from team members and clients.
• 5 Basic Rules for Creating an Effective About Page — Des Walsh dot Com – This short list of basic rules for creating an effective About page has been prompted by my frustration with the number of blogs and other websites that either do not have an About page or, more commonly in my experience, do not put their About page to work effectively in the interests of their business.
• Small Screen Blog: All about mobile – (by MoFuse) – If you believe that mobile is a strong medium to reach your customers – you need to be thinking about how your brand will evolve on the mobile web. Today you have a few interesting options and they are not mutually exclusive.
  As consumers wake up to the idea that they can actually reach the internet on their phone, we are about to see an explosion of new mobile devices; ITouch, Kindle, “netbooks” and even Sony Playstation Portable already are rapidly changing the ‘connection’ landscape.
• D u s t y T u n e s | Let your music collection see the light…. – Dusty Tunes automatically creates your own personal web page with a list of all the music in your iTunes library (although you can cheat). It will organise it all into a nice list and provide you with links so you can share it with your friends, on blogs, forums, websites, digg, facebook or simply keep it as a personal reference. You can come back at any time and update your page with all your latest tracks.
• WordPress › SEO Ultimate « WordPress Plugins – SEO Ultimate was developed with WordPress plugin "best practices" in mind:

  * Integration with WordPress's contextual help system
  * Internationalization support
  * Nonce security
  * An uninstall routine
  * Integration with the new WordPress 2.7 menu

• Privacy Policy Plugin For WordPress – At the end of February, 2008, Google started requiring AdSense publishers to display a privacy policy on all sites that displayed AdSense ads or search boxes. Since many WordPress blogs are monetized with AdSense, I decided to write a plugin that would automate the creation of AdSense-compliant privacy policies for WordPress users. Thus the Privacy Policy Plugin for WordPress was born.
• WordPress › CMS Navigation « WordPress Plugins – Do you want to use WordPress to create a full website, with easy navigation and menus? This plugin will let you add essential navigation functions to your template.
• WordPress › WordPress Navigation List Plugin NAVT « WordPress Plugins – The WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT) plugin is a powerful tool designed to provide you with complete control over the creation, styling and contents of your web site's navigation.
• Why Twitter beats RSS: Context + Content = Added Value – broadstuff – Twitter

These are my bookmarks for May 14th from 12:56 to 16:39:

• 10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People (Guess where mobile is?) « The Mobile Marketer – 10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People
• 12 ways to track traffic for your blog | Webware – CNET – I've found and tried 12 online applicatons that track your blog's traffic. Some are better than others, but they're all designed with the same goal in mind: helping you grow your blog.
• Digital Engagement | Director of Digital Engagement – Welcome to the new Digital Engagement blog at the Cabinet Office. The digital engagement team will be using this to talk about what we are up to, the technical challenges we are facing and to test out early solutions. Everything the Power of Information taskforce did on their blog we will do here, as we take forward their good work.