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

I have seen this video a few times at various conferences. Whilst it is old (6 months) it is still very powerful. If you haven’t seen this before, enjoy. Full credit to Dean for sharing at #mcl4.

These are my links for July 8th through July 9th:

• Social Gold: Virtual Economy Platform: Currency, Payments, Analytics | – Social Gold powers virtual currency and payment solutions for some of the most popular online games on social network applications, including Lil’ Green Patch, Mafia Wars, and many more.
• Collection: Illustrations from our books – Remix! – This collection contains sets of illustrations from our books and which are under a CC license. In the coming weeks, we will be posting more illustrations from our books. Feel free to experiment with these images and create your own stories (or use it in whatever way you want). Leave us a link if you try your hand at creating something, so we can also see what you came up with.

These are my bookmarks for July 1st from 14:13 to 15:21:

• Buy Sky Lanterns & Chinese, Flying, Glo, Wedding, Festival & Paper Lanterns! – Night Sky Lanterns – Our lanterns are manufactured to the highest standard and should not be confused with cheap imitations. Each lantern is supplied with a non drip fuel cell, which is easy to light, and fully illustrated instructions on how to launch your lantern. In addition our lanterns are flame retardant and biodegradable.
• Your Social Compass | Loopt –

These are my bookmarks for June 17th from 13:13 to 17:11:

• Royalty Free Stock Photography : Matton Images UK – A great new royalty free images website
• Yellowsn0w becomes ultrasn0w, iPhones everywhere swoon – iPhone Dev Team displayed their inimitable talents with a live video demonstration of yellowsn0w’s
  big, bad, unstoppable brother: ultrasn0w
• Nest Unclutterer – It's a new web app called Nest Unclutterer and it simplifies the process of knocking out those Twitter friends who are no longer bringing you value.
• Good.ly – the URL shortener for Twitter that generates cash for charity – If you use Good.ly to make a product recommendation on Twitter (it’s also at @good_ly) and people click on and then buy what you suggested, Good.ly gives 55% of any earned referral fees to one of its nominated charities.
• Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2 — Demo, Tutorials & Screenshots – Possibly the best demonstration suite I have ever seen. You effectively get to trial using the system in a sandbox rather than watching a video.
• Job Listings on ScriptLance – A place to get freelance designers working on your specific script requirements
• Reseller Hosting, Web Hosting & Domain Names | Web Hosting Heart Internet – Good hosting company recommended by EggBoxRobin

These are my bookmarks for June 4th from 09:23 to 13:11:

• Can Webwise Discover save Phorm? News – PC Advisor – Controversial behavioural advertising firm Phorm has announced a new system called Webwise Discover, a tool that can be used to recommend deep site content to web visitors based on tracking previous internet use.
• 9 Crucial UI Features of Social Media and Networking Sites | How-To | Smashing Magazine – This article goes over crucial features of the user interfaces of social media and social networking sites. It discusses important features, techniques and concepts behind these designs and explains why they are important, with examples from top sites. These easy and general usability strategies can be applied almost anywhere and to almost any type of user interface.
• BBC NEWS | World | Aerial guide to the D-Day beaches – BBC correspondent Robert Hall gives an aerial guided tour of the French coastline where the D-Day landings took place 65 years ago
• Shut The Hell Up You Self-Promoting Turd | chrisbrogan.com – A great article on the power of brands and bonds

These are my bookmarks for June 4th from 08:49 to 09:23:

• Shut The Hell Up You Self-Promoting Turd | chrisbrogan.com – A great article on the power of brands and bonds
• http://www.betonylloyd.com/ – Formerly known as debatwise

These are my links for May 30th through May 31st:

• Listing all ideas – Ideablob: where ideas grow – Where business ideas have the best chance to succeed
• iList Classifieds – Post and Search Free Classified Ads – iList is a classifieds service for Twitter

These are my bookmarks for May 13th from 22:03 to 22:46:

• The Human Clock® – About – Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal.
• Natasha Miller – Natasha Miller :: San Francisco Bay Area Jazz Vocalist – HOME – Jazz Singer recommended on #WebsiteWednesday Twitter
• May 12, 1967: Pink Floyd Astounds With ‘Sound in the Round’ | This Day In Tech | Wired.com – 1967: Pink Floyd performs the first-ever surround sound concert at “Games for May,” a lavish affair at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall where the band debuts its custom-made quadraphonic speaker system. The technological breakthrough not only amazes and confuses the mass of stoned concert-goers, but it goes on to raise the standard of what audiences would come to expect from a live rock performance.
• Google Search Introduces New Feature – "Google Search Options" | Fuzz One Media – Google’s search options adds an extra layer of dynamic filters to the search engine result page (SERPs) – with a single click a search result has extra filters (on the left) that shows your search query results as Video, Forum posts or Review only results. You can also further filter your results by time or choose to display more text on the description area of the SERPs.
• Twofer The Price of One: Help! Disney World Questions – Need Your Input! –

These are my bookmarks for May 12th from 13:28 to 16:43:

• Byte Night 2009 – Each year, over 500 people from the IT and business community give up their bed for one night to experience a little of what it might be like to be homeless. The money they raise helps Action for Children tackle the root causes of youth homelessness and gets thousands of children and young people off the streets and into secure accommodation with education and training opportunities.
• UserVoice – Customer Feedback 2.0 – Harness the ideas of your customers. Build great products. Turn customers into champions. – Cool tool for monitoring user feedback on your site
• Virtualisation & Dedicated Virtual Servers – Mesmet is a UK company based in Guilford offering reasonably priced hosting
• Linking to bad neighborhoods can KILL your SEO efforts – Search and Internet Marketing rants, news and views – the Fire Horse Trail – A great article outlining how you can find out who your neighbours are and how that may affect your SEO.
• ThisNext – Recommend, Share and Discover Great Products! – Looks like a place you can shop for inspiration and generally be part of a community.
• Brochure Templates, PDF Templates, Indesign Templates, Graphic Designs – BrochureReady – magazine design templates
• YippieMove – Email transfers made easy – Whether you want to change email providers or you just want to make archive copies, YippieMove can help. We’ll transfer your email between whichever email providers you choose.