Archive for the Search Engines Category
StreetSide – Bing Street View
Bing Search Engine and Bing Maps have launched their new Street view-style map service called Streetside.
StreetSide allows you to stroll down the street, presenting an augmented reality. The tool is powered by Silverlight and Photosynth and both are required for this new online tool. The aim is to offer the user a 360° panoramic [...]
Real Time Search with Google
Google is ntroducing new features that bring your real-time search results. to life. As Google blog claims, now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular social real-time sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before.
This new, advanced real-time [...]
New iPhone Apps Search Engine
Uquery.com is a new search engine focused on the emerging market of iPhone & iPod Touch applications. We have listened to many requests of the community and the frustration of being able to search and find applications on the iTunes AppStore. With 72,290 applications available on the AppStore, it has become tremendously difficult [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo Close the Deal
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an huge agreement. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search -via Bing- while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.
For Web users and advertisers, this deal will accelerate the pace and breadth of innovation by combining both companies’ complementary strengths and [...]
Google Voice is coming
Google Voice is the new revolutionary service coming out of Google. Basically, what they are doing is allowing you to centralize your multiple phone numbers -work, home and cell-. In the process they have come up with all kinds of handy tools and features that give end users more control over their [...]
Ask Jeeves Returns
Search Engine Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where “Jeeves” is the name of the “gentleman’s personal gentleman” (illustrated by Marcos Sorensen), fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster’s fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse.Three years ago, Ask, one of the leading search engines, [...]
Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine
Wolfram Alpha, the new, long-awaited search engine, also known as ‘computational knowledge engine’, was officially launched on Monday.
According to creators, Wolfram Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
“Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d be able to ask a computer any factual [...]
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft
The Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, first unveiled Bing last Thursday at a California technology conference and the early reactions have been very positive. New search engine, that aims to rival Google, will replace Live Search. Live Search maintains just an 8.2% share of the market for core searches.
According to Microsoft, Bing will offer [...]
Google New Search Options
Google’s Search options let you slice and dice your search results, explore your search and generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need. Watch the video for further detail.
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Duck Duck Go, a new search engine
Duck Duck Go is a new general search engine with an inusual name.
This new search engine combine results from Yahoo with even better results from human powered sources like Wikipedia .
Duck Duck Go claims major differences with other search engines including Zero-click Information, Category Pages, ambiguous keyword detection, semantic topic detection (for more relevant results), [...]
Wikia Search Closes
Wikia Search, a Search Engine launched a few months ago, has been discontinued. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users.
Wikipedia and Wikia’s founder Jimmy Wales has said” Wikia Search, has not been enjoying the kind of success that we [...]
AAfter Search Engine
AAfter is a new search engine that works much faster than other popular search engines.
AAfter has innovative features such as Cash back facility, answers to real-life question and Fail-safe TinyURL for the Twitter and Facebook, among many others.
Without doubt, one of the most helpful features of AAfter is the use of zip code. You [...]
123People, People Search Engine
123people is a real time people search engine that looks into nearly every corner of the Web. Using our proprietary search algorithm, you can find comprehensive and centralized people related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles and much more. All of this rich media profile content is [...]
Wolfram Alpha, a New Search Engine
A new search engine described as an “electronic brain” could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking them up in a large database, as Google and many other search engines currently do. With its computational abilities, Wolfram Alpha could lead to new types [...]
Lycos Closes in Europe
Lycos Europe is closing in the old continent. Lycos, the once leading search engine is still operating in the United States. Lycos Europe will also return about $60 million to its shareholders.
“As a result of this strategic review process the Management Board and the Supervisory Board of Lycos came to the conclusion that the best [...]
GameCurry, Games Search Engine
GameCurry is a search engine for Flash games brought you by the guys from Game2Win. The site has an index of games across all of these gaming sites, which users can search through by keyword.
In search results each game is presented with a thumbnail, along with a link to the site it is [...]
Plorf, MP3 and Lyrics Search Engine
Plorf is an excellent MP3 search engine, which unlike many others around, works very well.
Its usage is quick and easy: we introduce the name of the desired song or artist and the search results will allows you to listen and download songs, create playlists or embed music in your blog or website.
Plorf [...]
SeachCloud Search Engine
Searchcloud is a new search engine with a new way of searching the web. Unlike traditional search engines, SeachCloud allows users input Weighted keywords and phrases.
Instead of simply entering multiple keywords, users can rank how important each term is to the search. Each term is placed in a “search cloud”, where its weight is [...]
Cuil, a New Search Engine
Cuil (pronounced “cool“) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. Cuil is aiming to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than [...]
Wikia Search, Relaunched
Wikia Search is a new search engine . The Alpha version, launched a few month ago was poor received. The newborn search engine has been created by one of the founders of Wikipedia and conceived as a social search engine. Results will not be based on a PageRank but on active involvement of [...]
Google Documentary
Google:Behind the Screen. This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and search.
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iPhone Visual Search Engine
Imagine you could search the Internet just by taking a picture of something, such snapping a picture of a music CD to look up reviews and listen to the tracks, instantly getting information on a product featured in a magazine, or looking up recommend places to visit by taking a picture of a famous landmark.
Millions [...]
SEARCHME – Visual Search Engine
In the world of search engines, there is still room for surprises.
Search Me is a search engine that offers spectacular results visually in 3 dimensions, similar to the Aero 3D.
After our search, the results will show screenshots of the websites in an attractive 3D design. Additionally, [...]
