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Wowd Lets You Discover What’s Popular on Web in Real Time
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 23rd, 2010
Wowd is a new real-time search engine for discovering what’s popular on the web.
It delivers search results that people find interesting.
Wowd delivers popular and timely information in three ways which includes :
Hot List Updates
As you visit Wowd, you will get Hot List that updates with popular and fresh content on the web.
Searching
You can search for anything that interests you and even sort your search results by popularity or freshness.
Browser Application
Wowd also offers browser application that you can download on your desktop to get customized updates according to interest. Once downloaded, you can share search results or Hot List items among your friends, easily find web pages you’ve visited before.
This app also adds tags automatically so you can easily do advanced searches. You may also add your own tags to pages so you can quickly find them again.
Track Consumer Conversations About Brands and Products with Scout Labs
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 30th, 2009
Scout Labs provides a web-based platform that companies can use to monitor and analyze consumer conversations about their products across social media network.
Scout Labs tracks some of the major social web channels including Twitter, social networks, blogs, image and video sharing sites.
How Scout Labs Works?
The Scout Labs dashboard is designed for use by teams of brand managers. When you sign up for the service, you’re allowed to invite an unlimited number of colleagues into your workspace. They can then track other people discuss things, people, slogans, logos, etc related to your product.
ScoutLabs Dashboard Features
The dashboard has six sections including Blogs, Sentiment, Graphs, Photos, Videos, and Twitter.
The first displays all of the blog posts that have been indexed by Scout Labs related to a particular keyword or phrase. The Sentiment section breaks these blog posts down into positive, neutral and negative categories. In other sections, photos, videos and tweets related to your brand are collected and displayed.
ScoutLabs Pricing Model
Scout is priced by the number of keywords you can search for in an account.
FacteryLabs’s Search Technology That Helps You Find Facts
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 18th, 2009
Factery Labs, a search technology company, has developed FactRank technology, which gets real-time feeds and web content for the purpose of providing simple, short answers to user queries.
How FactRank technology Differ ?
Currently if one enters a query into a search engine, the response is a list of blue links. FactRank goes well beyond just delivering links. For each search query the FactEngine extracts facts from recommended pages and builds a FactIndex ranked by authority.
To give an idea of how Factery works, the company put together a simple search engine with a two-column view: one does a search for your query on Twitter and parses facts from any articles linked from those matches and another column offer result from Yahoo Boss.
FactFinder API for Developers
The company has also developed a FactFinder API that can be used to combine data from Twitter and Yahoo BOSS. It works by taking a couple of links and a keyword that you supply, and then building descriptions based on the facts. These are then delivered in either XML or JSON format.
Infoaxe Lets you Record Your Web History and Make it Searchable across Web
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 17th, 2009
Infoaxe is a Search Engine for your Web Memory.
With Infoaxe every page that you visit on the Internet gets added to a collection called your Personal Web Memory. It then makes this collection searchable across all the computers you use.
How does infoaxe maintain Web Memory?
Infoaxe offer a toolbar that stores web memory. Once you have downloaded the Infoaxe toolbar, it gives you quick access to the sites you visit most. It lets you decide which pages you visit are stored in your history.
Now when you start searching Google or Yahoo, you also get search results from your history alongside the standard search engine results.
Infoaxe’s toolbar also factors in engagement metrics, like how long you stay at a particular web site and whether its traffic is climbing rapidly.
Infoaxe’s Real-time Search Engine
Recently they launched a real-time search engine based off the data it has collected through a browser toolbar. In this search engine you get latest information on products, gadgets, deals, coupons, movies, sitcoms, ebooks and more.
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Google Partners with Twitter for Search
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on October 22nd, 2009
Google has partnered with Twitter to index the entire public tweets as fast as possible and present them to its search users in an organized and relevant fashion.
Google’s search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data.
Twitter Will Soon be Made Available in More Languages
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on October 9th, 2009
Twitter is currently available only in English and Japanese. With some help, we will soon be rolling out support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
These languages are commonly referred to using the acronym FIGS and are often the starting point for services like Twitter when its time for more language support.
Yahoo Adds New Features and Updates to Search, Mail and Messenger
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on August 26th, 2009
Yahoo has added slew of new features and updates to its three core offerings - Mail, Search and Messenger. Yahoo Mail, one of the top leading email services, gets more social features as one of the key milestone in Yahoo Open Strategy.
Along with that, Yahoo Messenger 10 will also bring social tinge like showing status updates, photo sharing, video calls and other notifications.
Trackle - Your Personalized Information Tarcker on the Internet
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on March 23rd, 2009
Trackle is a new web app that assists you in managing your personalized information on the web. It offers a comprehensive index of popularly tracked categories from local to social to shopping.
Trackle - Your Personalized Information Tarcker on the Internet
The service is built with high tech algorithm that provide a layer of intelligence to the tracking process. Users get automatically notified over the web, email or SMS whenever Trackle finds a match.
The best part is - its completely free, secure and privacy compliant.
How Trackle works?
To set up a new alert, just browse the site’s catalog of trackable things and specify how you want to get the alert. You can have alerts sent to your inbox on Trackle, to your phone via SMS, or to your email either instantly or in a daily digest.
You can also search alerts other people have saved, which yields some interesting uses of the site.
Trackle Unique Alerts Service
They’ve added some alerts that are unique to their service, like the ability to track crime in your neighborhood. This service is integrated with Twitter. So if you send any news as a Tweet, you can share an entire tracklet to your feed.
Other upcoming features include a vacation mode where you can suspend all your tracklets for a specified period of time, as well as a location tool that will automatically adjust all your alerts for where you are. A bookmarklet and toolbar are also in the works, which will make it easier to start a tracklet from any site you’re on.
Some Insight about company
Trackle was founded by Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Pavan Nigam and technology executive Naveen Saxena. The company has been funded by NEA (New Enterprise Associates) and angel investors.
Gumgum - Advertisers and Publishers Network to Distribute Licensed Photos, Videos and Audio
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on March 3rd, 2009
Content is licensed for a fixed period of time in offline mode and hence easy to distribute and manage. However, on the web, the content is licensed for an unlimited period of time. This situation presents a terrible problem of how to determine the licensing cost when you don’t know who is using your content and how often.
Gumgum - Network of Advertisers and Publishers to Share Licensed Original Photos, Videos and Audio
GumGum envisions to solve this problem of content licensing on the web.
The service allows content creators to track the usage of their digital content (photos, videos and audio) and enable them to charge the users.
They use perfect information to facilitate a fair transaction between publishers and content providers. The result is a system that leverages usage based licensing models to enhance monetization, increase access to content and much more.
Gumgum Licensing Models
GumGum has developed two new licensing models that make the best content in the world accessible to publishers of all sizes. Pay-per-use licensing and ad-supported.
Pay-per-use allows publishers to license content on a CPM basis and Ad-supported allows publishers to license content for FREE. In exchange, an advertising unit is displayed alongside the licensed content. The advertising revenue subsidizes the licensing costs.
GumGum requires images be published via a Flash object so that impressions can be tracked and billed properly. Flash also allows them to serve interactive advertisements, served via VideoEgg
Photographers from all over the world can upload their photos to GumGum and publishers can browse through them and license them after creating an account.
DuckDuckGo - Search Engine with Topic Summaries and No Spam Content
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 10th, 2009
DuckDuckGo, a term we can never think to associate with a website, unless the website is on ducks or something related to it. But do you really wish to know what it is?
Its a new search engine that in addition to links, provide zero-click information, e.g. topic summaries.
DuckDuckGo - A new General Purpose Search Engine
Why DuckDuckGo is different from other Search Engines ?
One of the main concerns in search engines is the amount of spam that creeps up from time to time. There are so many irrelevant websites that comes as a part of your results.
Their vision is to show results that have less spam and clutter by retrieving them from human edited sources like Wikipedia.
Human-edited sources have the distinct advantage of not linking to irrelevant sites, and the titles and descriptions always tend to make sense.
The Search Engine has special pages that distinguish topics with similar names.
About DuckDuckGo User Interface
As regards the user interface itself, the proceedings are made simpler by the inclusion of keyboard shortcuts and the automatic highlighting of results. Likewise, site icons are displayed next to the existing links in order to give you a visual representation in advance.
In finishing, Duck Duck Go attempts to bridge some gaps by providing a more human-oriented experience. You can give it a spin at the provided address, and see if the above mentioned materializes into a more realized search process for you or not.
The search engine is founded by Gabriel Weinberg, an internet entrepreneur with a couple of other ventures under his belt.
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