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Trulia Launches Graphic Tools: PlotorNot and Truliaholic
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Real Estate News, Real Estate Technology, Search, Sellsius Real Estate Blog, Technology and Trulia.
Trulia has just launched two interesting data mashups, PlotorNot and Truliaholic.
PlotorNot will graph any correlation between two factors you choose to compare. PlotorNot merges data for cities across the US with a diverse group of demographic variables (crime, age, rainfall, sex offenders, aver. list price, etc.) to answer questions such as: “Is […]
Yahoo Pipe Dream of Search
Published by February 10th, 2007 in Real Estate Technology, Search, Sellsius Real Estate Blog, Technology, Yahoo and rss. 2 CommentsPipes is a new Yahoo! mashup tool which lets you create customized RSS feeds. This is a huge step forward in search and RSS feed aggregation. You basically build your own search engine, pulling information from different sources (pipes) and they gush force to produce search results to you via a feed (your pipe […]
Wireless Hot Spot Search Engine: HotSpot Haven
Published by January 22nd, 2007 in Hot Spot, Search, Tips and Wireless. 5 CommentsNeed to find a wireless hot spot? Try HotSpotHaven. It’s a hotspot search engine. Just type in a zip code or city and bam! you get a list of hot spots. You can even input your wireless carrier to find their hot spot.
Can’t find a Starbucks, ask to see cafes, hotels or bookstores. […]
ShackPrices Adds Text Search Feature
Published by January 16th, 2007 in News, Residential Real Estate and Search. 4 CommentsOnline real estate search site ShackPrices just added a Text Search feature to help consumers better locate specific property traits. Want a fixer, type it in the Text search box and any in the database will be displayed. I typed in “waterfront fixer” and found several properties that fit that description. Want to exclude certan […]
Here’s a useful search tip to find great bargains on Amazon.
Use this link as a template:
The first highlighted number after “node=” is the category number. 541966 is Computers and PC Hardware. The second highlighted number after “off=” is the discount. The above link shows all computers offered at 80% off or more. (the minus […]
Video Search Engine: VDoogle
Published by November 21st, 2006 in Cool Websites, Search, Tips & Useful Links and Video. 5 CommentsVDoogle is a Google powered search engine for videos. It’s a mega-search spider that works like Dogpile. Here are the video sharing websites currently searched by VDoogle:
Next time you’re looking for that perfect video to post on your blog, visit VDoogle.
H/T: Lifehacker.
Snap is a new search engine. Snap lets you preview a search result in a panel (resizeable) without leaving the page. Like Ask.com’s subscribe & post to for blog search, another step forward for search technology.
Here’s how it looks:
Snap has added a Snap Preview Anywhere tool for websites that allows visitors to preview what […]
Keyword Selector Tool: Overture
Published by November 18th, 2006 in Blogging, Cool Tools, Residential Real Estate, Search and Tips & Useful Links. 5 CommentsOverture Keyword Selector Tool let’s you type a keyword and see the search term results for the keyword and related keyword search terms for the past month. Yahoo uses the Overture Keyword Selector Tool. Here is the keyword search results for “condo”.
iwhois.com has the Tool and it let’s you select the keyword for […]
Google Goes AJAX With New Search
Published by October 6th, 2006 in Cool Websites, Search and Tips & Useful Links.Google is king of search. It is shining its crown with an new AJAX search engine called Searchmash. Type in your search term & hit enter (the Search button is history). Choose Web pages or images from the drop down. Images arrive beside certain results. With AJAX you can drag and drop […]
