Posts Tagged search engine
Pipl.com - Most Comprehensive People Search Engine on Web
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 1st, 2010
Pipl is basically a people search engine that finds addresses and other related information.
This search engine helps you find your lost friends, relatives, classmates, ex-boyfriends and business contacts or anyone as soon as you type in the First Name, Last Name, City, State, Country in the fields on website home page.
How it is different ?
According to Pipl promoters, it searches the pages from the “deep web”, which refers to a vast repository of documents such as the online databases, which the general purpose web crawlers cannot reach.
It finds mentions of name in public records, including property records, SEC filings, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources.
It also displays links to from social networks profile like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, blog mentions, and photos on Flickr.
YourVersion Lets you Discover New and Relevant Content based on Your Interests
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 27th, 2010
YourVersion is a personalized, real-time discovery engine that helps you find new and relevant content based on your interests.
Discover Latest Content
With YourVersion, you can browse latest news, blog posts, web pages, and Twitter posts on a single platform according to your keyword preference.
For example if you search for an “iPhone” information, YourVersion will display you the latest news on cool apps, blog posts, web pages, tweets, videos and more.
The best part is that it remembers (saves) your last visit activities and thus you don’t have to type again. Next time you visit YourVersion, the latest iPhone stories will be there waiting for you.
Sharing and Bookmarking
YourVersion completes the discovery experience with its unique sharing and bookmarking capabilities. You can easily sharing stories via Twitter, Facebook and email.
Company Insight
Located in Palo Alto, California, the YourVersion was founded by Dan Olsen (CEO). He has extensive experience in web product development.
Google Likely to Shut Down Google.cn
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on January 15th, 2010
The Chinese version of Google, which was launched in 2006, had to censor some of its search results under the local government’s pressure. They are no longer willing to continue censoring its results on Google.cn.
Google recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially their offices in China.
Yauba - Secure, Safe and Real Time Search Engine
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on January 4th, 2010
Search Engines have evolved. They are no more a directory of links. With the rapid evolution the issues of privacy protection has emerged. It becomes little scary at times to know that search engines even record all of your search history as well other personal preferences which you might not like to share with anyone.
Yauba, a new search engine that helps you search web anonymously helps protect privacy and thus ensure you a secure web surfing. Their search engine aggregates results from different web platforms including the likes of social networks as well other popular search engines.
You can opt in to visit any website (shown in the results) anonymously. This kind of initiative is still in experimentation stage and we will have to see its evolution as the popularity grows.
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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Yahoo Improves its Search Engine Features
Posted by techfreak in Technology News on November 30th, 2009
Searches on the Yahoo engine would soon deliver more results. The new filters could allow a searcher to limit results to those found on major websites like Amazon or Wikipedia.
Yahoo has published several other features aimed at helping searchers find the right information on various Yahoo online properties including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Finance.
Search Environment Friendly Websites And News Stories On GreenMeven
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on June 27th, 2009
GreenMaven is a Google custom search engine that showcase environment friendly web sites and news stories.
Environment Friendly Web sites and News stories on GreenMeven
The website focuses green, conscious, and sustainable websites so instead of your search term being applied to the web as a whole, it only gets applied to “green” pages.
GreenMaven’s Green Directory
Green Maven also hosts a Green Directory so you can browse the green web.
Add Your Green Website for Free
If you have a website that you would like to be added in here, you can suggest it. Their editorial team will review from various perspectives and then include it.
Other Green Channels
The site hosts a video section (sourcing from YouTube), where you can see lots of videos focused around environment and other organic stuff.
Search and Play Songs and Music Videos for Free on Web with Fizy
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on June 5th, 2009
Fizy is a very compact media player which lets you play songs and music videos for free on web. It does not have any play lists or rating scale and doesnt even ask you to download anything in order to listen the music.
Search and Play MP3s Songs on the Web with Fizy
How Does it Works ?
You wont get a media player which is simpler to use than Fizy. Just enter the name of the song you want to listen. It will then show you a list from which you can choose the correct track.
As you click on the track, a small player at the bottom of your browser pops up and starts playing the music. If there is a video associated with the song, a button would be displayed which expands it into a video player.
The player features convenient controls for play, pause, volume and full-screen view. There is also a slider bar which helps you move around within the song or video.
Multilingual Music Database of 75 billion Indexed mp3s
Fizy has an enormous music database of 75 billion indexed mp3s. Another good thing about this service is the fact that this is an international music source, therefore you can listen songs in more than 30 languages.
Enhance your Search Engine Results with WebMynd Browser Extension
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on June 4th, 2009
WebMynd is a browser plug-in that enhances search results on popular search engines by inserting a handy sidebar with related search results from a variety of other sites so you can easily see what you’re missing.
Enhance your Search Engine Results using Webmynd - A Demo
How it Works?
After you install this plug-in, simply visit one of the supported search engines which presently includes Google, Yahoo and Live Search, and search for a query as usual. Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, is also available.
The plug-in inserts a handful of small widgets at the right hand of the screen, each of which includes the first few matches of the same query from sites like Twitter, Amazon, or Digg. You can choose from over 25 different search sites that you’d like to include in your results.
This plug-in is available for both Firefox and Internet Explorer browser.
Some Unique Features of Webmynd’s Plug-in
Webmynd has a cool feature called “dock.” Once you’ve found something cool using their custom search, you can use the dock to share it on your favorite social media sites with just a couple of clicks.
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