Archive for the 'Search' Category

Toward the Future of Search:BingTweets

Bingtweets is a search engine mashup of Bing and Twitter.  Enter a search term and get Bing results and tweets.   The Twitter results are automatically updated.
This is the future of search.  A Google/Twitter mashup can’t be far behind.
According to the website:
BingTweets combines Twitter trends with Bing search results, enabling you to see deeper, real-time information [...]

RentWiki is Social Real Estate Rental Search

Since launching theClozing.com, I’ve been interested in websites that aggregate and organize  information from sources that include social media.
Rentwiki is a rental seach engine which aggregates neighborhood information and reviews from locals on numerous lifestyle topics.  You can also see tweets about the neighborhood.  Got a question?– ask it on RentWiki  and via Twitter.
From the [...]

Death to Google: Collecta and Real Time Search

I just discovered Collecta, a real time search engine.  I think this is the future of search, or at least a necessary component.

We all want and need search. But do we want and need only Google search, where older established websites get to hold on to their SERP rank and PR-ness, like dictators who [...]

Keyboardr Mashes Search

Keyboardr is an interesting AJAX metasearch engine mashup (yep) that brings together Google web search, Google Blog search, with Wikipedia, YouTube and Google Images results in the sidebar. Results are displayed as you type, making for an interesting, yet a bit weird, user experience.
While Google is busy adding to its piggybank with ads in [...]

Samepoint is Social Media Search Engine

Samepoint claims to search comments from hundreds of thousands of social media sites (blogs, YouTube, Digg, etc.) and publish the results based on “Point of discussion”.   It’s a little fuzzy with the points of discussion but hey, a social media search engine is a great idea.  You can sort by most recent conversations or most [...]

Craigsfindr Searches Multiple Craigslist Cities

Craigslist.org is a great resource but you can only search one city at a time. With Craigsfindr.com you can search multiple cities at one time. Just remember to check off the cities/servers you want to search. There is also an Advanced Search. Nice.
Update: SaveCraigsfindr claims craigslist is now blocking them.   [...]

Cuil Search Engine to Rival Google?

Cuil (”cool”) hopes one day to be a Google killer. Not sure that day is coming soon, but we’ll see.
While search results are displayed with images (and I do like images), it takes way too long to scroll through them. And there are no news, maps, or image searches (and I do like [...]




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