Glimpse.com has become part of TheFind.com family of shopping sites.  TheFind is a leading shopping search engine that finds stores, brands and products online. By joining TheFind, Glimpse.com will now enable savvy shoppers to quickly discover even more unique, fashionable items than ever before.

Healthline is a provider of intelligent health information technology. Built on its proprietary consumer healthcare taxonomy, Healthline’s Medically Guided Search™ service delivers accurate, contextually relevant health-related search results, empowering consumers to make more informed and confident healthcare decisions.

SeeqPod recently announced its release of SeeqPod Music Search & Discovery for the Apple iPod Touch. SeeqPod also announced its compatibility with the iPhone, enabling users everywhere to access the Internet’s vast catalog of media more easily and freely.  Now, SeeqPod users are able to build playlists and instantaneously access them using the new iPod Touch and iPhone.

The research project GO3R is developing a knowledge based search engine for alternative methods to animal experiments www.GO3R.org. Transinsight is closely collaborating with scientists from the Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments.  The protection of these animals starts even before the experiment begins.

Searchles has expanded the range of its video indexing capabilities to display embeds from popular video sites Metacafe, Liveleak, Veoh, and CollegeHumor.  Users have also been granted the unique ability to easily mash-up their favorite videos from Metacafe, Liveleak, and CollegeHumor, in addition to those video sites already indexed, into a Searchles TV channel – a feature that allows users to stream their favorite videos from these multiple sources back-to-back in a single player.

Clipbast!announced today that it has embedded the new Amazon Unbox Video Previewer into its site.  ClipBlast! has teamed with Amazon to take another step in the evolution of video delivery. This new wave of video streaming is quickly turning the web into the world’s largest and most efficient video distribution platform.

TugLink is an online peer-to-peer job search community and job referral marketplace where members help each other land interviews for desired jobs. Thus, a job-seeker can find his/her dream job on a job board or corporate web site, post it on TugLink.com, “name the price” (i.e. announce a referral bonus for company insiders), interview for the job, and get hired for it.

Quintura will now power an advanced visual search at Park.ru, a Russian media content aggregation service. You can check the new service at http://is.park.ru/search_quintura.jsp. The service works on top of the Yandex server and uses search results in XML format to build a tag cloud on-the-fly. Park.ru competes with Factiva, Securities.com and several smaller online content aggregators in Russia.

CureHunter uses goal seeking algorithms to find optimal medications as reported in journals and research papers.  For example: a search for “obesity” will show a strong relationship with “Insulin” and “Exercise” among other drugs and therapies.  They offer a Medline based Research Interface, which enables easy exploration of relationships between drugs and diseases, and the specific peer-reviewed statements which support those relationships.

Velingo: Document tagging is essential for search since engines are not enough. Human feedback needs to be taken into the search engine decisions. However, tagging and voting doesn’t reach the main search engines because it is done manually and thus very limited.  Velingo is different because its unique technology does the tagging automatically.  The tags are built from the behavior of the users and describe each document or sets of documents accurately.

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