A search engine for all Bangladeshis – WebBangladesh

February 26th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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logo1_whiteWebBangladesh is the Internet Search Engine for the people of Bangladesh. Currently, we are reaching out to all Bangladeshi’s in Bangladesh, the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, many other nations around the world. WebBangladesh is a one of a kind network that makes you smarter by unlocking the limitless potential of the Internet.

bottom_bannerWebBangladesh Search Engine – is written for the Bangladeshi Web browser looking to put up a high-powered search engine/portal similar to Yahoo and Google.  Key features including “cool site,” “new site,” “and popular site” and add, and edit capability by web browser.

Webbangladesh Everyday Features the following:
E-mail
Comics & Jokes
Classified Ad
Deshi Jobs
Deshi Movies
Deshi Love
Deshi Models
Entertainment
Forum
Gift Delivery
Greetings Card
Hosting & Design
Kobita
Latest News
Life & Stories
Music
Opinion Polls
People Search
Photo Gallery
Yellow Pages

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What Do We Believe? WebBangladesh believes that communities are at the core of the hub. An Internet community personalizes the Web, allowing people with common interests to seamlessly find, communicate and collaborate with each other, acting as participants, rather than observers. An online community personalizes the Web, enabling members to have individual relationships in a global medium.

What is our goal? As the Internet continues to grow in size and complexity, the WebBangladesh Network will continue to provide a fast, easy and efficient way to make sense of the Internet and manage its vast resources. The WebBangladesh Network is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve, and manage information tailored to his or her own personal interests.

Source: WebBangladesh.com

The 2009 Blogger Appreciation Awards

February 26th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Do you actively blog? Do you use a cell phone like most people? How would you like to have Cell Phones .org pick up the tab on your cell phone bill for a whole year? We at Cell Phones .org want to make your life a little easier and show you our appreciation for hard work you do.

Contest Requirements:

You must be an active blogger, on any subject. Active means you’ve been blogging for at least the last two months. Your blog can be hosted anywhere. No Spam or Automated Blogs. If you win, you need to let us post your name and a link to your blog.

Why a Blogging Contest:

We think bloggers are among the most underappreciated group of people on the planet (so says our Mobile Maven team), and we want to do something to reward them for their good effort. We also realize we’re in the middle of a financial crisis, so what better way then reward people by taking a big monthly bill off their minds?

How To Enter: One of your faithful readers needs to submit your blog via our submission form:

Prizes:
1. 1st Prize: 1 year of your cell phone bill on us (Cell Phones . Org) – up to $1000
2. 2nd Prize: Free cell phone of your choosing (does not include plan, just the phone).
3. 3rd Prize: $100 off your your next purchase at Cell Phones .org – transferable and never expires.

A search engine for “web forms” DeepPeep

February 26th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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DeepPeep is a search engine specialized in Web forms. The current beta version tracks 13,000 forms across 7 domains.

DeepPeep helps you discover the entry points to content in Deep Web (aka Hidden Web) sites, including online databases and Web services. This search engine is designed to cater to the needs of casual Web users in search of online databases (e.g., to search for forms related to used cars), as well as expert users whose goal is to build applications that access hidden-Web information (e.g., to obtain forms in job domain that contain salary, or discover common attribute names in a domain).

The development of DeepPeep was funded by National Science Foundation award #0713637 III-COR:

Discovering and Organizing Hidden-Web Sources:
For more information about the technology used to build DeepPeep, please visit the WebDB group at http://webdb.cs.utah.edu.

Tips on using DeepPeep:
Using simple search, you can search for forms that contain a given keyword or set of keywords. You can also restrict your search to a particular domain (e.g., auto, hotel).

Find all forms that contain the keyword honda:
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Find all forms that contain the keyword make in auto domain:
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Source: DeepPeep

Real Estate Search Engines – A letter from Frank

February 26th, 2009 by Guest Author
Posted in Guest Authors, Real Estate, Verticals | 3 Comments »

Dear Charles,

Back in the fall of last year, all of the major Real Estate brokerages and realtor associations announced that they were cutting advertising dollars to most of their marketing campaigns, except for the internet, because of its and search’s growing importance to the consumer. As I remember it, last year’s report showed that these brokerages were not cracking the top ten on this list. Now Re/Max is in, which shows that they decided to accept the value of search in my mind. It is interesting to note that Coldwell Banker is now putting an effort in this field, but they may not exist by the end of the year.

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Source: Hitwise

2009-02-26_1232ZipRealty is the internet brokerage, and they are getting good word of mouth among those who take searching for real estate data on the web seriously. They have expanded their market more than Redfin. These sites may hold the future for real estate business, particularly as it is tied to the web.

Yahoo! Real Estate has so much potential in my mind, but it does not deliver on what it could be. When I question people about it, they use it for searching about information on how to buy or sell a home, but not actual home searches. I think there was an article about that fact recently. If they incorporated some innovative search techniques for home search, and publicize that fact, they could dominate. I also tried contacting them about improving their data for home buyers and sellers, because I found it too basic. No response from them (They probably thought that I just wanted to promote myself, but I gave them a list of people who could write better material for them).

2009-02-26_1233Homegain at #9 is associated with HomeFinder in case you did not know. ServiceMagic has put a lot of effort into becoming the place to search for RE professionals. I noticed that they are starting to dominate the SERPs for many keywords in this field.

zillowlogolargeI have to look at them again, because I felt that they were just a glorified yellowpages that did not offer much for the user. Realtor.com provides such a poor experience for the user, but they are advertising quite a bit.

Zillow and Trulia give so much more.

Sincerely yours,

Frank Schulte-Ladbeck
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http://YourHoustonHomeInspector.com

Oh My God I Love It. (O-M-G-I-L-I) Omgili!

February 26th, 2009 by Rafi Farber
Posted in Innovations, Updates, Verticals | 1 Comment »

Do you like eavesdropping? Especially when things get heated and controversial, which inevitably leads to some form of silliness which is more often than not entertaining? On serious issues, it would be, if ad hominem weren’t so sad and our future so blurry. Anyway, Omgili is the perfect alternative search engine for checking out the online debates.

It is a vertical search tool that looks for discussion boards, debates, answers to FAQ’s, personal experiences and the like. It’s a search for those who want to find out what people are saying to one another. – the “subjective information” they call it.


As opposed to traditional search engines, which search for sites and pages, Omgili finds consumer opinions and debates. Keep in mind, say the Omgili people, that most of your questions have already been answered, most of the technical problems solved, and most experiences already been described. Find people talking about your very issues—to one another—on Omgili.

Their database searches over 100,000 discussion boards and forums, and distinguishes between title, topic, and discussion date. For example, a search I conducted for “Stimulus Bill” brought me to people duking it out over whether this thing has legs or not, and why. From what I gather, people disagree slightly about it. (I am the king of understatement.)

Here’s a list of things you can do with Omgili:

1. Omgili Buzz Gives a daily overview of the most popular discussion topics.

2. Graphs creates chatter graphs about the topics of your choice.

3. Search Aid – Search in real user queries and get ideas about how to refine your search terms.

4. Q & A – Omgili Q&A is a sub-section of Omgili that is dedicated to finding questions and answers.

5. TV Shows – Search for opinions and reviews about your favorite TV shows.

They also seem to have a bit of focus on Japan and Israel especially. The link? Perhaps two Western 1st World islands in the midst of seas of developing countries? Technology hubs. Sounds right. Want a plugin for your browser? They’ve got those, too.

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