Can you imagine 5,000 search engines? We can.

January 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Since 2007, AltSearchEngines has served up thousands of posts covering just about every known alternative search engine, daily and globally. We have added additional bloggers to expand our coverage even further. And perhaps most importantly, we have created conferences and events in San Francisco, New York City and Berlin so that the people behind (and in front of) these marvelous engines can meet with each other face to face and get beyond the blogs, the press releases, and the ubiquitous emails.

But we need your support. We have many different ad shapes and sizes, terms and discounts. We just need you to ask. Email me anytime: Charles@AltSearchEngines.com.

Search thousands of academic video lectures

January 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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aeAcademic Earth has the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education?  At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

Does Your Company Matter?
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We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.  Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

logo_footerWe invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone. Source: Academic Earth

Subjects:
*  Astronomy
* Biology
* Chemistry
* Computer Science
* Economics
* Engineering
* English
* Entrepreneurship
* History
* Law
* Mathematics
* Medicine
* Philosophy
* Physics
* Political Science
* Psychology
* Religion

OMG! Will you ask My God Search?

January 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Search over 2,000 sites about religion and web 2.0

Abba Eban – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At this stage, he changed his name to the Hebrew word Abba (however it was seldom used informally), meaning “Father”, as he could foresee himself as the …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Eban

Source: MyGodSearch

Thanks to Steffen!

>Foreign Federated Search Fun<

January 29th, 2009 by Guest Author
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Mednar and Biznar, vertical search portals created by blog sponsor Deep Web Technologies, have been enjoying some attention in the international blogosphere. In this article I provide a gallery of the references I’ve found to the Deep Web portals and, for your entertainment, I also throw in translations of snippets of the articles, courtesy of Google translation.

Sol Lederman
Federated Search Blog

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Hebrew Source credit: Blog Directory of Tel Aviv University

Biznar is a search engine – the new field of business. Engine based on the technology-federated search of Deep Web Technologies. Is looking for a number of high-quality sources of business, including sources from the non-visible, and rank the results according to its own algorithm. Sources include blogs, research, business, government news and information. The user can search all the sources or the number of sources to choose between the original proposed. Can I get the sources from each of the proposed source. You can search the entire text of the documents or to restrict your search to the title or author. Also you can restrict your search based on the years.

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The Future of the Web Unveiled

January 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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At this years edition of The Next Web Conference the future of the web will be unveiled! An international audience of more than 900 people from over 30 countries will discuss ideas, business models, and threats and solutions for the future of the web.

Matt Mullenweg (Founder WordPress), Andrew Keen (author of “The Cult of the Amateur”), Chris Sacca (Former Head of Special Initiatives at Google) and many more inspiring industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and authors will share their vision on the Next Web.

The Next Web Conference is an annual Internet Conference held in Amsterdam since 2006. Last years event was attended by more than 750 people from over 30 countries and was streamed live online to an audience of 20.000 unique viewers. Effectively turning it into one of the largest Internet events in the world.

badge_greyThe Next Web Conference plays an important part in introducing Europe’s hot tech start-ups to investors and press. A selected group of 24 selected start-ups gets free access to the conference and main stage to present their technology to the audience. Previous editions played a crucial role in introducing Europe’s finest entrepreneurs to the world.

Demand for an event where attendees can get a glimpse of what the Next Web will be seems to be even higher in an Economic downturn. Patrick de Laive, organizer of The Next Web Conference explains:

“People become more selective in which events they are going to attend this year. Because this is our fourth edition and we have a track record we are experiencing a lot of interest in the conference from both attendees, start-ups and press. We expect it to be another great event!”

The Next Web Conference will be held April 15, 16 and 17, 2009 at the Westergasfabriek Terrein in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some early bird tickets are still available at the conference website: http://2009.thenextweb.com