Absolutely awesome! Search Wikipedia-roll

January 9th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Wikipedia-roll is a global and dynamic version of articles from Wikipedia.

We access a global vision of a subject through the definition and items of the article in Wikipedia.

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Then by serendipity, from one link to another, we discover a lot of things!

Created by the Garage Team : Tobias Muthesius, Damien Legois, and Catherine Ramus

Source: Wikipedia-roll

And now in French…

Wikipedia-roll est une vision dynamique et globale des pages dans Wikipedia.

Rapidement, on accède à une vision d’ensemble d’un sujet à travers sa définition et les éléments constitutifs d’un article dans Wikipedia.

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Puis de proche en proche, en naviguant on découvre tout un tas de choses.

Extra credit: Can you explain the elephant?

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The ASE Blog Network Search Engine

January 9th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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topicleWith Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle’s world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes. Each Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web. (Source: Topicle.com)

All Topicle search engines are open, and everyone can contribute by adding URLs and rating existing URLs. Just like anyone can author articles on Wikipedia, anyone can create and enhance search engines on Topicle. With everyone’s help, Topicle search engines will get better and better over time.

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To search my 10 favorite blogs, Click Here.

URLs searched
www.reelseo.com
www.caronteweb.blogspot.com
www.altsearchengines.com
www.thenextweb.com
www.blog.softwareabstractions.com
www.highlighthealth.com
www.federatedsearchblog.com
www.blog.ramenos.net
www.msearchgroove.com
www.thegeniusfiles.com

Thanks to Steffen W. Schilke for the idea!

Search Engine MelZoo Launches

January 9th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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MelZoo has just launched a beta website on MelZoo.com. This Meta search engine, offers “visual previews” of the search results.

In other words users will receive much more relevant, quality information. Most existing search engines are not offering this. This advantage results in a much better user experience. MelZoo is confident that this time-saving and result-increasing feature will invite a lot of internet surfers to switch from their traditional search engine to MelZoo.

This preview feature has an enormous impact on the ‘quality of traffic’ delivered to advertisers: the traditional search engines are offering typically only text as a teaser. Chances are that users who enjoy the luxury of a detailed thumbnail preview, will be a lot more selective in visiting the sites they are interested in. This results in a higher effectiveness of use. The chances of “conversion” (i.e. from hit to buy) is currently estimated 5 times higher than with traditional search engines.

Above and beyond the above, another major strength is the fact that MelZoo is a Meta Search engine because this engine displays the results of different searches in one place.

Source: MelZoo