Ray’s Web 2.0 Business Minitests: Netvibes.com

Do you know that feeling… searching the internet for hours only to find your information in bits and pieces at various locations? Most people google and click on the answers Google gives you on their first page. But maybe you don’t want to search for answers on a normal site, maybe your answer is hidden within video-content or on a blog that isn’t very well indexed.

For business users there now is a very useful tool named Netvibes and it is totally free. You will notice that the site combines numerous search options, all in one page. Type in e.g.: ‘online networking’ and you get not only regular webpages about the subject but also video blogs, news, RSS feeds, whatever.

The best thing is, you can make your own account and shape the searches according to your need. You can even drag-and-drop any item, feed, blog or search to the main overview.

Very simple, very clever, very usefull.

- So Ray if I understand you correctly; now there is Netvibes and you don’t have to go to all those individual search sites anymore. That must be music into the ears of marketing managers.

-‘Marketing managers?’

- Yes, because they want to keep their online visitors pinned to their site. If you can offer them a technology on a site like Netvibes, they don’t have to go elsewhere anymore for further information. This will keep online visitors pinned to the site.

-‘Never thought of that, I wonder if they have…’

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