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WikiDo: Find Your Event Now!

1 Comment Posted by on February 2, 2013

wikido logoHave you ever questioned your mates “What’s the plan for tonight? One place which readily answers your question is WikiDo. It provides you with all the information of any and every kind of event occurring within your locality on any particular day. All you need to do is simply search in WikiDo for the events happening for the day within your city. It surfs the Internet and provides you with the search result of every event it can find. The things which you need for the event and during the event are categorized conveniently into different sets for your help. Read more of this post

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Word on the Wire: Display Results from Multiple Platforms in a Single Search

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 13, 2012
Word on the Wire

Word on the Wire

The World Wide Web is the leading source of information that comprises of education, commercial, and government sites. The collection of sites residing on the Internet form one of the largest repositories of information in history. But then again, if not used correctly, searching for information can totally be like finding a needle in a haystack.

But now a web application changed the way we search for contents on the internet. Word on the Wire allows users to display results from multiple platforms in single search. Read more of this post

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Skills: Merge Facebook & LinkedIn And You Get Skills

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 22, 2012
Skills

Skills

You knew tagging was important for SEO, but you never knew it was so important. Skills is a platform that is based on tags. It is good that somebody thought about this because this is a new idea that sounds exciting.

Skills is a website where anybody can tag himself/herself, their friends etc. with Skills and interests. Yes, there needs to be specifications otherwise it could all go out of hand. Skills is a community for professionals. You got the idea from its name.

On Skills, you can add as many interests as you have and as many Skills as you possess. It will not do good to exaggerate or fantasize here. Stick to what you can do and what you are really interested in. That will help to attract like-minded people and fellow professional in your field. Read more of this post

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WebsitesLike: Find Similar and Alternative Websites

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 14, 2012
WebsitesLike

WebsitesLike

If you are looking for a website much similar to the ones that you are on or any other site for that matter, then you should give WebsitesLike.org a go. This notable website search engine enables you to view websites that are related to the ones you visit.

So if you’re tired of using the same website, it can help you find similar, related, or alternative websites. They do it better than any other services on the web since they have the largest index of alternative websites that are publicly available. They have a considerable number of the freshest data with an index that updates several times a day. It is remarkably fast and has currently thousands of users relying on it as a source of finding alternative sites, which is saying a lot. Read more of this post

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Ebookdatabase: Free Search Engine For Searching, Downloading EBooks

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 9, 2012
Ebookdatabase

Ebookdatabase

Ebookdatabase is a free search engine that gives you the option to search for and download various documents.

According to Ebookdatabase, they do not host any files. Their crawlers harvest a huge database of files through different open Internet resources such as blogs, forums, BBS and others. This database is regularly checked for file validity so now you can search within more than 100,000,000 of live PDF, DOC, XLS etc. As of now, they have 100 000 000 document files in their search database and approximately 500 000 files are added everyday.

On Ebookdatabase, you can easily find any ebook you want. Read more of this post

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Wajam: Turn Your Search Into Social Search

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 13, 2012
Wajam

Wajam

Wajam helps you to know what your friends are sharing when you search for something.

This is new stuff, at least I did not know about anything like this before I visited Wajam. This social search engine provides you with access to the knowledge of your friends, what their activities are and generally, what they are up to.

With the help of Wajam, you can easily find results from your friends by searching directly on Wajam. Or, you can install the social search extension for your browser. When you search, you get a personalized social layer of your friends’s comments, likes and recommendations for products, videos, places, photos, links etc. How awesome is that! Read more of this post

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Clapps.me: A Place to Build Your Own Custom Web Page

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 9, 2012
Clapps

Clapps

Clapps is basically a place for anyone to make a custom web page without any troubles coupled with the traditional webpage- building. With Clapps, you can use numerous apps as you do with your smart phone.

This amazing service is a project initiated by Johnnie Maneiro who is a blogger himself as well as an creative web developer. Since 1996, he has been an expert Read more of this post

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Watchily: Find Your Favorite Movie or TV Show in Just a Click

1 Comment Posted by on December 15, 2011
Watchily

Watchily

Watching movies can be easily accessed by the advent of movie services on the web. You can choose from a wide- range of services such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Redbox, and Hulu. Then again, with so many options thrown at us, it makes everything more perplex than it is supposed to be. Which option is better? Does the service have the movie that I want to watch? Is it in my budget? All these complexities may be simplified by Watchily. Essentially, this service allows you to search for movies and TV shows on the above services. Read more of this post

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Helioid: Searching By Category

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 12, 2011
Helioid

Helioid

The web is a vast place wherein finding the right results can be as difficult as searching for the needle in a haystack. And therefore many of us wish to center the search in a more immediate and easier way. Now, there is a startup that focuses on that problem. Helioid is a search engine that basically zips your search and classifying it into color- coded categories. Read more of this post

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Mahalo: The Comprehensive Human- Powered Search Engine

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 6, 2011
Mahalo

Mahalo

Mahalo is a unique man- powered search engine. The results are generated and created by a group of passionate and spirited assembly of Guides, in a non algorithmic method. The guides remain up- to- date on today’s happening by spending a lot of their time researching. They filter out spam and choose the most helpful results possible. Even if the search result you wanted is not built yet, you could only request the search result and they will work on it. You can also play a role by suggesting any links that you think are useful.

Unlike any other search engines, Mahalo is a guarantee that you will only get quality results since the pages are created by actual people and not a set of system. The guides basically help you in your search for useful information by informing you their favorite sites. The topics in Mahalo are endless, you possibly search for a term on the categories that the guides created or more easily, by typing a specific search term.

Wikipedia and the conventional search layout are mixed together to produce the results pages. The link results are separated among different classifications with a heading of “top 7” up the page. Mahalo guides settle on those results categories beyond the top 7. On the other hand, factual information is briefly enumerated adjacent to all other links. The categories are especially custom- built to the particular search term. In this way, search for companies are not limited to its products but it also include recent news or stock information. Also, searching for a person may also include the general profile, gossip section for a celebrity or performance statistics for an athlete. Generally, Mahalo search results are very subjective which allows all users to suggest their very own links for deliberation. Subsequently, those links are picked out and eventually get published or not.

With Mahalo, you are guaranteed with profound, useful, and comprehensive search results.

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DuckDuckGo raises capital from Union Square Ventures and others

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 19, 2011
DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo, a general purpose search engine founded in 2008, has received investments from Union Square Ventures and others. The amount invested in the company has not been disclosed.

The search engine has been seeing tremendous growth in the last few months. Although the company is not a big corporation with much staff, it has the potential to become big, judging from its recent growth and popularity.

Other investors in the round are Jim Young, Scott Banister, Jeff Miller, Kal Vepuri, Joshua Schachter and Peter Hershberg.

The original plan of DuckDuckGo was to raise capital until they saw a compelling reason to do so. They stuck to the plan for three and a half years. The popularity of their Zero-click Info, privacy policy and goodies made all the difference.

Union Square Ventures invests in young companies that use information technology in creative ways. They mostly invest in media, financial services, marketing, telecommunications and healthcare.

DuckDuckGo is different from other popular search engines in their zero click answers above links, less spam, advertisements and clutter. Their goodies and tech goodies include special search functions, personalized homepage, tools, plugins and add-ons.

The search engine has many spectacular features that are absent from other search engines. Advanced features like !Bang gives a solid boost to DuckDuckGo. Morover, the search engine does not collect or share personal information. Privacy is something that is of uttermost importance to Internet users. DuckDuckGo makes sure that your personal information does not reach other sources on the Internet through them.

All in all, a search engine to watch and follow. It might just prove a big competition to existing search engines.

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AdGrok – An Incredible Online Advertising Platform To Simplify Google AdWords

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 25, 2011

adgrok-logoAdGrok is an incredible online advertising platform which can be more specifically called as a simplified front-end to Goolge’s popular AdWords program. AdWords is still the most powerful online advertisement platform and one of they key source of Google’s revenue. For businesses, AdWords is very effective and can generate huge traffic to their offering. But not all businesses can use AdWords effectively because of its complexity and overwhelming process. Businesses with clear goal often lost their advertising strategy seeing so many options and information in Google AdWords. This is really frustrating for small businesses specially those having little or no experience in SEO.

AdGrok is going to make this entire process very simple and fun. Within a minutes you can get up and running on Google AdWords with AdGrok. This Y Combinator backed project is a Google AdWords certified Partner, verified by Google and granted preferred API access.

It’s unique GrokBar allows you to visualize your data side by side right on your website, in context, so no more switching between your website and Google AdWords tabs. You can see exactly how much you are paying for each campaign, compare campaign’s performance and if it does not provide expected result, you can kill the campaign. You can perform almost everything you can do in Google AdWords, so you don’t have to log into Google AdWords again.

Another important feature of AdGrok is Grok-O-Matic which allows you to set up AdWords campaigns on your entire website uploading a text file with your URLs and defining some page attributes. You will have your entire product catalog on AdWords with one click through Grok-O-Matic saving you endless clicking inside AdWords.

For Shopify powered shops, AdGrok provides a nice integration with your products catalog in the shop. You can upload your entire inventory in AdGrok and create campaign around each product specifying when to end the campaign based on product’s inventory count.

AdGrok also provides professional service rendered by Google Certified Professional to do all the set-up and maintenance of your account.

Finally, AdGrok is a wonderful platform to create, manage and monetize your Google AdWords campaign. Please try it yourself and let us know your valuable feedback about this platform.

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Estately – Search Your Home From The Most Comprehensive Home Database

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 31, 2011

Eastately LogoEstately is a graphical real estate search engine. Estately lets you search from the most comprehensive database of homes in selected United States cities. You can find your home sweet home easily from over 549000+ items listed in Estately. And what is different about Estately is it’s clean user interface, map search and browsing experience, we believe you will also love it.

Estately lists its data directly from MLSs and updates frequently, so you will find the most accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive data than others. Searching in Estately starts by entering a location and it shows homes directly on map. In map you can browser homes and navigate to next and previous item. When browsing Estately, you will feel like you are shopping on an e-shop, there are so many detail information available for making your best decision.

Estately not only provides home details like room information, address, photos of the property, size, prices but also provides information on surrounding nearby. You will find 3D street view of the property, satellite view of the surrounding and more than 40 additional details. This is what making it the most comprehensive database for homes. If you want to physically visit a home you can create a visiting schedule easily from the search result or from the detail view of the property.

Estately does not intend to replace real estate agents instead it aims to help you make the right decision with a good real estate agent. To do that it has alreay partnered with 300+ experience, service oriented and customer focused agents across the states. currently, not all cities are listed, but Estately is expanding its network to cover more cities.

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