Search Engine of the Day: Properazzi

August 27th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Alts, Global | 2 Comments »

The last few days on AltSearchEngines we have featured some European Property Search Engines such as Trovit and Extate.

I thought we might as well make it a triple header and do one more: properazzi!


 Properazzi is a property search engine. They help people find properties to buy and rent in every European country. They bring together millions of properties from thousands of real estate agency websites and present them in one location.

Properazzi is free for both consumers and real estate professionals and they don’t require people to give up any personal information. If you own a website with property listings, you can submit it to their index free of charge.

My wife and I just got back from Italy, so I thought, “Well, what if we wanted to buy a little summer cottage…” And this is where we were: Montalcino. 97 listings to choose from!

If you’re a European reader, what’s your choice? Trovit, Extate, or Properazzi?

“Feed me, Seymour!” The Top 10 RSS Alts

August 27th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Alts, Verticals | 2 Comments »

Every Monday at AltSearchEngines we take a look at a particular search Vertical. 

Since we started on June 1st, 2007, we have examined the following Verticals:

Video Search, Music Search, Quotation Search, Charity Search, Blog Search, Mobile Search, Job Search,  and Health Search!

Today I want to visit RSS search engines, and what better way than to just ask them to find my RSS feed?  To simplify things, I just searched the one keyword ‘Altsearchengines.’  Pretty straightforward, so let’s get right to it.

RSSMicro found me right away, and this feed was only 1 hour ago! 

Feedster has the post that I just did yesterday.  Excellent.

  FeedPlex didn’t find me, but had some very interesting advice!  Try adultsearchengine?

  feedzie.com – no luck (unless I goofed).

  FeedMiner.  Ditto, no results.

  searchfeedr pulls together a combined interface that allows users to enter the source (a web feed URL, a page URL, or a del.icio.us username/tag combination) into one text box, and the search terms into another. I used Yahoo! and came back with 388,000 matches from Read/WriteWeb.  Thanks, Richard!


 

  SearchRSS.  Nope.

  feed24.  Uh-uh.

  DayPop  uncovered a few interesting finds.  The Stark County Law Library Blog cached me yesterday.  Have I finally “arrived?”

  Bloglines.  Just featured at Read/WriteWeb

Bull’s eye! 

  Feeds2.0 Yep, this is #11.  Feeds2.0 is still in private beta, so I signed up to be a beta tester.

If you were searching for an RSS feed, would you use one of these alternative search engines?  If so, which one?  If not, who did we miss?