The Real Time Image Search Engine twiPICK

April 22nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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twi2Here are a few problems that arose during the first few weeks of twiPICK:

* Crucial issue: The little bird didn’t twote when new pictures arrived – it just sang whenever he pleased (ie. when the animated gif started to repeat). Now it tweets properly.
* Big chunk of the real estate was wasted by the description of the site (and huge adverts, too). Moving all of the navigation to the left saved valuable pixels, so more pictures can be shown.
* Scrolling of the site + constant update of the pictures didn’t really work – it’s a bit annoying when you scroll down and it refreshes. I made the whole page more application-like: you don’t see scrollbars where they’re not needed. Everything is above the fold.
* Copy changes – I do this constantly. Whenever I find something that can be explained in fewer words, I change it. It can be time-consuming, but pays off, and it’s absolutely crucial not to waste the users time. Even when s/he’s not illiterate. (Source: The twiPICK blog.)
* You couldn’t tweet a search. This was quite a silly mistake. Now you can tweet your search.

So that’s the next iteration of twiPICK. Here’s how it looks:

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Job-Job – Skill Search and the Best Job in the World!

April 22nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Job Search, Verticals | No Comments »

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Job-Job.co.uk, the recruitment search engine has today announced that searching for jobs using your existing skills and knowledge as search terms can yield vacancy results far beyond your expectations, opening the door to a wealth of possibilities.

Candidates searching for jobs often make the erroneous decision of bypassing the search function allowing them to search using their skills as a term, instead choosing to look for jobs based on title, location or salary. This means that candidates all over Britain are not maximising their skills, knowledge or experience and are potentially missing out on terrific opportunities.

The Skill Search functionality allows candidates to type into a search bar the skills they believe they excel in, allowing these skills to be used as a means of matching the perfect candidate to their ideal job.

The search bar can also be categorised using a candidates’ location, simply fill in the skill and location and click search – a list of available roles is presented, each one suitable for candidates with the identified skill.

The benefits for those searching for Marketing Jobs for example are impressive, simply tap in “great communication” or “computing knowledge” and brand management jobs across the country are displayed in an easy to navigate format. It is of no surprise to note that there is an abundance of roles available throughout Britain’s capital, simply type in Brand management jobs London and search to be taken to over 450 promising roles.

Job-Job.co.uk makes job searching online simple and fast, enabling users to search for jobs by sector, title, skill set and location in order to provide a stress free means of finding a dream career.

Source Job-Job

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Let yourself go with the best job in the world: The Caretaker of the Islands…(of the Great Barrier Reef)

Requirements:
- report what’s going on the islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
- feed the fish
- clean the pool
- collect the mail

To find out more about the responsibilities of the job, employment benefits, selection criteria, and view the key dates just go to: http://www.islandreefjob.com. Apparently it’s so popular already that their website went down several times…and if you cannot make it to Oz but still looking for a job… you can search for the best job here: www.job-job.co.uk

Love my job – Recipe Puppy

April 22nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in In Beta, Verticals | No Comments »

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Here are my search results for Absinthe:

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B55 ★★★★★(1)

This a pretty layered shot using Absinthe, Bailey’s and Kahlua. It was pretty smooth and the absinthe has a surprisingly light liquorice finish. Pour liquor on an upside down spoon over glass to keep the liquors separated.
+baileys, +kahlua
www.recipezaar.com

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Ginger Rogers Cocktail Recipe

To honor a great old-time actress and dancer- one of my Pappa’s favorites. Very refreshing!Recipe courtesy of Jeff Hollinger, Absinthe Brasserie and Bar, San Francisco, Calif. Prep:10m
+ginger ale, +lime, +syrup, +lime juice, +gin, +mint
www.grouprecipes.com – Similiar recipes


About Recipe Puppy

Recipe Puppy is a search engine built by Kris Brower.

As an avid cook with limited pantry, I often found myself asking how can I make this recipe without the key ingredient, or what I could make with a few seemingly unrelated ingredients. I scoured the internet for a recipe search engine that could answer all my queries, but the recipe search engine that I needed did not exist. Unphased, I set off build my own recipe search engine that could answer all my questions.

When building this recipe search engine, I had a few goals in mind. It should be able to search by ingredient and/or keyword at the same time. You should be able to exclude recipes with ingredients you don’t like. I shouldn’t have to spend too much time building this(less than 1 month). It should be fast and easy to use. It shouldn’t cost me too much a month to run. The result is what you see today.

Search Engine DeepDyve releases new version

April 22nd, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Alts, News, Updates | No Comments »

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Thanks for using DeepDyve and providing such helpful feedback. We value all of your comments whether they be positive and glowing, or negative and constructive. As you’ll see in this release, we’ve incorporated a lot of your feedback into our roadmap.

Today, we released a new version of our search engine containing several new features including:

* Spell check: if your query looks a bit off, DeepDyve will suggest alternative words and spellings
* Bolded keywords: the matched keywords or phrases in your query are now bolded in your search results for easier identification
* Search auto-fill: as you type in your query, DeepDyve will auto-display other searches from your history that resemble your query
* Advanced filter: we’ve updated our Advanced filter experience to make it much more intuitive and easier to use.
* New Detail view: did you know that you can ‘preview’ your search result? By clicking Detail, you can see a couple sentences or more of your search result to make sure it’s what you intended. In this release, we’ve refined the look and feel of this page and increased the amount of content we can now display
* Related searches: in your search results page, you will see related, popular searches
* Clickable publisher, journal and author name: you can now click on any of these fields and immediately generate a search on just those documents

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We are expanding our Beta program to get as much feedback as possible. And of course, we want to keep hearing from you about what we could be doing better.

Happy Dyving!

The DeepDyve Team

A review of Jepaa – the .Tel search engine

April 22nd, 2009 by Guest Author
Posted in Guest Authors, Newcomers | 5 Comments »

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By Guest Author Habaer

Finally we have a real .tel search engine come out now. I am really exited when I see Jeppa :

1. This is what all .tel lovers wanted, a nice .tel only search engine (Die .Tel Suchmaschine), when people want to search contact information, they do not need to google and dig in thousands of web sites which have nothing to do with contact information, here we got one, because .tel means contacs and communication, need contact information, we Jepaa instead of Google

2. Jepaa support multiple languages at the very beginning, it support English, German (Deutsch ) ,Spanish, French and Italian , I believe it will support other languages later.

3. Like .tel itself, Jepaa is Mobile Device Friendly ,now two Jepaa sites are live, Jepaa.com and Jepaa.mobi, actually both Jepaa.com and Jepaa.mobi are Mobile Device Friendly, I checked from my Blackberry, they look very very nice. Just beautiful, just amazing…

4. Jepaa Search function : The great thing is Jepaa combined the key words and location search (Google maps) in one place.

(a) Keywords Search: Just like other search engines, (google,yahoo,MSN), you can search keywords, you get the results of the .tel sites which contain the keywords in the contents you are searching and the .tel sites whose domain names (or sub-domain name )contain the keywords you are searching, like , if you search Pizza, you get the sites which contain Pizza in contents and the sites contain “Pizza” in the domain names. Even you can do exact keywords search by putting keywords in “”, like “Angelina”, it give you the exact keywords search result, by the way, I did exact keyword search ”Angelina” , my site brangelina.tel comes up at the top (first place),what is algorithm of Jepaa’s search and ranking of the sites, I have no idea yet. You can also search by combining keywords like : Toronto Hotel, it gives you expected results (but I tried Toronto+Hotel, it gives no results, many people like combine keywords with “+”,)

(b) Location Search (Goggle Maps): there is a “City” text box, you can search city location, good thing is, you also have an option to search the city area from 1 KM to 200 KM, you can also combine keywords and city location search, like keyword “Hotel” and City “Toronto”

5. Jeppa seems to have already indexed most of the live .tel domains, I searched some of my domains, they are all indexed (some of them were just indexed by google days ago): like:
thehotel.tel
theairline.tel
mycreditcard.tel
…..
6. Who is the guy behind this great .tel search engine ?
On the site, there are two links, one is: tel-domain-registrieren.de , another one is about us http://www.jepaa.tel/, from jepaa.tel, you can see the CEO name is : Mr. Markus “Moveman” Zimmerli , Software Developer is Mr. Heiko “GreenRover” Henning , company is; Movetec GmbH
Jepaa.com
* by Movetec GmbH – move your e-business
* Schloss Interlaken
* Hauptstrasse 1
* Unterseen / Interlaken
* BE
* 3800
* Switzerland
I found http://www.movetec.ch/ from google.de, this should be the guy ? At least , the developer is in Switzerland, and must be German in Switzerland.

7. What does the word Jepaa mean ? I checked, it seems neither English words nor German word, maybe some kind abbreviation ? Anyway, I like this name personally, many search engines like to have two same letters in the name, like, gOOgle, YahOO, so why not JepAA, it is also very easy to remember and pronounce, and pronunciation sounds beautiful. (Actually, many German words contain TWO “a”, I stayed one year in Germany, the city name I stayed is Aachen which has two “a”s)

8. I just love it, love everything of it, even its logo is lovely and vivid.

9. Jepaa “Adwords” ? I think Jeppa “Adwords” function is already there, when you just do location search with “City”,say search Toronto, It gives you the map of Toronto, and at same time, it lists all Toronto related .tel sites, If Jepaa charge some money for that, this is Jepaa “Adwords”

10. Jepaa “Adsense” : one of the major issue for .tel to take off and have a great success is that there are should be some ways availible to moneytize the .tel domain names, like google “Adsense”, If we have Adsense for .tel, thousands more people will get .tel. Maybe Telnic and Jepaa can work together to develop something like Adsense ? maybe Telpages.com will provide something like that ? Let’s see how telpages will provide more functions for all .Tel lovers?

Personally, I like German Engineering, because they always try to make perfect products. Jeppa is taking off, I wish it will like a “Jet” soaring into the .tel world and have a great success.

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