Posts Tagged with ‘search-engine’

ExpatFinder is a new search engine for all the information expatriates around the globe may be interested in finding. The site is launched today by the Singapore-based family startup Interexpat.
The freshly launched ExpatFinder is intended both for expatriates and those that are only planning to leave their motherland for business or personal reasons. Here they ate supposed to search for the most relevant information provided from the perspective of an expatriate only.
Basically what you can do on the site is [...]

By now we all know how lucrative the market for human-powered search engines has become. There's About.com (which has started to show its age), the indecisive Mahalo research engine, the mobile-focused ChaCha, and even newcomer Stumpedia.
Now, there is yet another new service aiming to implement the human element into a search engine, but Site605 claims a difference in offering "a combination of man and machine can go where neither could individually." You're might be thinking that Mahalo [...]

Streamzy is a newly launched service, founded by 21-year olds Jesse Chemtob and Brian Krantz, which is best described as a streaming media search engine. It gives users the ability to search for music (video will be added soon) which can be streamed live on the web and, for registered users, saved among a playlist to be accessed from any computer via the internet.
Streamzy is powered by the Seeqpod media search engine and, therefore, all of its features are [...]

The field of "human-powered" search engines already seems to be too crowded with Mahalo, Wikia Search, Sproose, and ChaCha (which has now decided to focus on the mobile search frontier). All of these, however, still use bots, algorithms or a staff in one way or another in order to function as desired.
Stumpedia, on the other hand, claims to be "human-powered" and actually seems to be the only such engine to be completely at the will of its users. It's homepage [...]

Public schools receive funding from state, federal and local governments. Because funding depends on the whim of the public voter, it can fluctuate. While a school may receive enough funding in some years, they may fall short in other years. Catch Tomorrow has set its sights on helping remedy that situation.
Catch Tomorrow isn't the first site to offer funding for education. It is part of the Search Engine Corp network, though, which is the first search engine network [...]

Billing itself as the “Librarian of the Internet”, Finding Dulcinea aims to gather only relevant content from the Internet universe. The company launched in October 2007, and has a team of self-described “savvy Internet users” who aggregate content for the site.
Instead of a regular search engine, like Google, which brings you millions of hits for each search, Finding Dulcinea finds what they consider to be the best resources for a given topic, then sorts them and places them [...]

Hakia is rolling out yet another aspect of their semantic search technology today. MO (or meet others) exhibits another interesting aspect of “search” by allowing people to meet other people entertaining the same queries. By adding this P2P social element to search, hakia is effectively spreading semantics (or meaning) across a much wider spectrum and toward true answers and understanding. Users simply click on the MO icon after making a query and they are taken into rooms where people have [...]

Explaining and understanding hakia and other semantic search engines has been a little more than tough for developers and potential users these past few months. Readers and users are not dense, but perhaps they are impatient and a little ADD. Developers, especially the good ones, spare no text or video to explain these complex and often abstract creations. Still, most visitors (to hakia in particular) are not willing to devote more than a few seconds to evaluate the potential of [...]

There are so many search engines on the web now that people are probably finding search engines by using search engines. But most of these search sites utilize a very basic algorithm to gather content, with Google, Ask, and Microsoft's Live being the biggest exceptions.

Today, in an effort to expand the abilities of online search, Amvona has launched what they call a “revolutionary” new media search engine known as Discovery, as part of the Amvona 720 social shopping and [...]