Google Code

Google has launched Google Code, Google's place for Open Source software.
The featured projects are picked applications that use some Google tool or api.
There are also links to some cool developer tools on the SourceForge.net.

Terrier

Terrier (TERabyte RetrIEveR) is an open source (under Mozilla Public License) software (from University of Glasgow) for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. More generally, it is a modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval applications, providing indexing and retrieval functionalities. It is written in Java.

A9 Open Search

A9 Launches Open Search to Syndicate Vertical Search Results using RSS.
Could it be used as the user interface of my experimental search engines?

SIGMOD RSS feed

SIGMOD Online now offers an RSS feed with the news items posted on sigmod.org
http://www.sigmod.org/rss/index.rss

"Learning in Web Search"

ICML2005 Workshop "Learning in Web Search".