Search Engine 911Tabs for all your tab needs

May 5th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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Tablature – A notational system that uses letters, numbers or other signs rather than staff notation. The basic principle of tablature is that the player is told, by letters or figures placed on a staff, how to produce the sound of the required pitch from his instrument. See Answers.com

So why use 911Tabs?

At the current moment, there are hundreds of guitar tabs / bass tabs / drum tabs websites over the Net. These days, it’s not easy for a regular music enthusiast to find the most accurate tablature for a favourite artist or a favourite song. There are many causes of the problem – starting from inconceivable amount of websites, indirect links, bad navigation and ending with a slow connection and many disturbing ads on the way to the content.

Following this trend, they have made the 911Tabs search engine, that is able to get most tabs for any artist fast and easy.

911Tabs search engine crawls the web 24/7/364 seeking for new tabs & tab updates.

Why is 911Tabs different?

911Tabs is the revolutionary tabs search engine – it operates in a similar manner of all those “big” search engines, but targets to the tabs-related information only. It employs the best of search technology to organize information in a way that makes it both understandable and highly relevant to users’ needs. It crawls several hundred of music website and archive most type of tabs available in the industry: guitar, bass, drum, guitar pro.

 

Microsoft’s Shopping List

May 5th, 2008 by Guest Author
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Guest Author Sramana Mitra

Let Yahoo deal with its mess, Microsoft should go cold turkey on them for a year now, and let Jerry Yang get fired for failing to create shareholder value. A far more interesting question looms on the Microsoft side. What is Microsoft’s Internet strategy going forward?

Here’s my shopping list for Microsoft, given cash is abundantly available, time isn’t:

For a budget of less than $6 Billion, Microsoft can clean up some of the current jewels of the Internet, and build itself a great management team of net-savvy entrepreneurs. Especially if these entrepreneurs can be incentivized to keep building according to their dreams, and in their respective domains, Microsoft will end up boasting the most envied portfolio of Internet properties.

Meanwhile, what Yahoo would do under Jerry Yang’s disabled leadership, I dread to imagine!

OutOfPocket Search Engine for Healthcare Costs

May 5th, 2008 by Guest Author
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OutOfPocket is a new search engine that enables consumers to look-up prices for health care services, and allows providers to list their prices and services in the directory, completely free of charge.

In addition, the search engine features expanded search technology and searches for health care price data across other public price transparency tools. The user types in their city and state to get information on health care rates in that area. Also, Consumers are invited to post/share prices they paid for actual visits, along with their personal recommendations on the provider. You can input the list price versus the actual price with the Add Visit feature.

Employees can use OutofPocket to search for prices for specific services in a network plan. The search engine hopes to encourage employees to collaborate and post prices they paid for health care services, and to share these good deals with other employees. The idea is to eliminate providers that overcharge and to help people avoid providers with poor performance by encouraging employees to share recommendations on visits.Thanks to Rafi for this post!

The latest. The greatest. The Surchur.

May 5th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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It may take a little while to learn all of the ins and outs of Surchur. They try to simplify the site as much as possible to make it intuitive but sometimes that just isn’t enough.

Here are some of the most common questions they get:

Why does it take so long to load my surch?

Surchur caches the most popular surches to our site on a regular basis. This means that you should get a pretty quick response to your specific surch if it is popular. However, if you pick an out of the ordinary surch that is seldom seen or are the first to surch a new hot topic it could take several seconds for your results to fully load. If that term becomes popular, you’ll soon have them cached and your page will load lickety split!

Why isn’t my recent surch cached?

Surchur.com does our very best to filter content that may not be appropriate for the public at large (i.e. adult, gambling, cursing etc.). Though we allow surches for any topic we filter out caching those that some might find offensive – we know your list of topics is probably very different, but at least we have a start!

What are the best topics to use Surchur.com for?

Surchur is a great source for the latest and the greatest on topics that are in the now. For example, want to learn the latest about your favorite pop star. Type their name into Surchur and you’ll be amazed at all of the nitty gritty you’ll find. Surchur.com isn’t so good for that narrow, topical Surch that you might make on one of those big leviathan search engines. For example, type in “toby’s cinnamon spice peach cobbler” into Surchur.com and we’re pretty sure you’ll be disappointed.

What is that long list of topics on your homepage?

We put the most common recent surches up on our home page so that you can see what others are surching for. Click on them and they will take you to the surch for that specific topic. Plus they will be cached so they should load lickety split!

What if I want to focus on a single type of content, say news?

You can click on the link at the top of the page that says “news” and it will take you to your surch with just news and up to 30 results per source. That way you’ll have as much news as we’ve got available for you to browse through. This works for other content types as well such as pages, videos, pictures or products.

Can I bookmark a favorite surch?

Yeehaw! (Yes) You’ve discovered one of the coolest features about Surchur. Bookmark a specific URL on Surchur.com such as http://surchur.com/all/panda+bears and you’ll find that everytime you visit there’s the latest and greatest information on the topic waiting for you to browse. Come back tomorrow and the page will be entirely different with new information and media.

Fight Click Fraud with Meta Search Engine eZanga

May 5th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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eZanga was founded in as an effort to help people find information on the web faster and easier. eZanga’s technologies push the limit of Meta search technology by retrieving search results from multiple search engines. They then re-rank and display the most relevant results without duplication.

Their Traffic Advisors finger printing technology is one of the most advanced systems to detect and deter click fraud in online advertising. With Traffic Advisors eZanga is able to “cherry pick” the good traffic in a real-time fashion. The bad traffic simply gets rejected.

Want to have some fun? Check out their cash giveaway contest.