A job search engine for Asia – SeekJobs.asia

June 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Global, Job Search, Verticals | No Comments »

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SeekJobs.asia is a search engine for jobs. Our goal is to make job search easier. The traditional online job search methods take too much time and make it difficult for job seekers to find a comprehensive set of relevant jobs, so we strive to create tools that make web-based job listings more accessible and our search results more accurate. Our job search engine provides quick access to job listings found on thousands of employer websites and job sites all around the web and offers features that will help you find the jobs you are looking for more efficiently.

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With the simple and clear look of job search engine, SeekJobs.asia makes it easy for you to drill down by keywords and sorting to jobs that fit your requirements precisely. You may save your searches and have jobs delivered to you by email alert or other RSS feed readers.

Source: seekjobs.asia

Truveo Relaunches with Improved Video Search Tools

June 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Updates, Verticals, Video | No Comments »

Video Search Engine Truveo Updates Website To Make It Easier To Find Video On The Web

home_truveo_logoTruveo today announced a major update to its website that makes it easier than ever to find video on the Web. The new site is available at http://uk.truveo.com with localised versions of the new Truveo experience available in 16 other countries. 

“With the launch of the new Truveo.com, we are showcasing the breadth of content discoverable in our search engine,” said Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and Vice President of AOL. “With thousands of channels and TV shows in our index, Truveo has long been recognised as a leader in video search technology, and today we are building on that reputation with an improved experience that makes discovering and sharing video content even easier and more personalised.”

The latest release of Truveo.com provides:

The most comprehensive global video index: With more than 350 million online videos from thousands of sources across the Web.3
Quicker and easier discovery of online video content: Offering a cleaner, redesigned homepage with improved search, browsing functionality and upgraded loading times.
More personalised control over search: Navigation that lets users browse their searches by channel, category, show, popularity and most followed on Twitter. Users can also easily filter results to find videos on their favourite websites and channels.
The broadest coverage of videos4: Providing a greater emphasis on helping users easily find the professional videos they want, whether its popular TV shows, music videos, sports highlights, news or more. A new page dedicated to TV show listings lets users browse for shows alphabetically or by network.
Extended share features: New tools let users save and send their favorite videos and search terms to friends and share them on Bebo, Facebook, MySpace and StumbleUpon.

In addition, all of the Truveo sites use localised ranking algorithms that vary the order of search results to deliver the most relevant results to each country’s Truveo users. For example, a search on Truveo’s UK portal, http://uk.truveo.com, will be more likely to turn up English language videos from UK media companies.

In Europe, Truveo has partnered with Tiscali Italia, which provides integrated access to Truveo’s leading video search engine. As part of the partnership, visitors to the site are able to use an enriched video search functionality, powered by Truveo’s video search API to search and browse the most comprehensive global index of videos. Truveo’s search APIs enable website owners to build applications with powerful video search and discovery features that build on Truveo’s leading video search technology and extensive index of over 350 million3 videos.

Truveo’s 17 localised portals are available at the following addresses:

Australia: http://au.truveo.com

Brazil: http://br.truveo.com

France: http://fr.truveo.com

Germany: http://de.truveo.com

Hong Kong: http://hk.truveo.com

India: http://in.truveo.com

Italy: http://it.truveo.com

Japan: http://jp.truveo.com

Korea: http://kr.truveo.com

Mexico: http://mx.truveo.com

The Netherlands: http://nl.truveo.com

Russia: http://ru.truveo.com

Spain: http://es.truveo.com

Taiwan: http://tw.truveo.com

Turkey: http://tr.truveo.com

United Kingdom: http://uk.truveo.com

United States: http://www.truveo.com

Source: Truveo

Bitesize Bio – a search tool for molecular biologists

June 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Unique Interfaces, Verticals | 1 Comment »

Molecular Biologists Toolbar

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Bitesize Bio is an online magazine and community for molecular and cell biology researchers. We serve up a delicious, bite-sized plate of technical tips, advice, news and much more to keep your bio-brain well nourished.

You can expect a new addition to our menu every weekday, and if you are hungry for more, our archive is packed with hundreds of useful bites for you to enjoy.

We designed the Molecular Biologist’s toolbar to make our everyday molecular biology work simpler. We love it, and think you will too.

Our favorite features of the toolbar are…

  • You can search Pubmed, Patents, Entrez, Uni-Pro, Wikipedia, Scirus and more from the search box.
  • You can access all of the online DNA and protein sequence manipulation tools you’ll need in the tools section. It’s packed with everything from reverse complement to BlastP!
  • You can jump to useful sites like BRENDA, Ecocyc, Pubmed’s single citation matcher and more from the Database and Literature sections.
  • You can customise your toolbar by adding an email checker, weather display or even an internet radio.
  • It works in Firefox and Internet Explorer
  • It’s totally free and by using it you help to support Bitesize Bio

Job Search + Artificial Intelligence = Trovix

June 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Job Search, Verticals | No Comments »

id_trovixHeadquartered in Silicon Valley, we were founded in 2002 with the goal of providing products and services that bridge the gulf between employers and people in search of the best career opportunities.

Unlike any other career service, our human-like search and advanced artificial intelligence technology reads resumes and job descriptions the same way a human would, by focusing on key attributes such as skills, work history, and education to provide meaningful search results.

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For working professionals, we provide a free and effortless way to stay aware of ideal career opportunities. We ensure access to the very best jobs based on work experience and goals, not just keywords. Our service combs through millions of current openings to find and present the most relevant career matches.

Companies use our services to find candidates with the exact skills, experience level, educational background and work history for the positions they want to fill. We then help speed them through the recruiting process with our full-featured applicant tracking system which includes collaborative workflow, streamlined communications, scheduling and custom reporting.

Source: Trovix.com

Introducing fefoo, search made simple!

June 25th, 2009 by Guest Author
Posted in Guest Authors, Innovations, Newcomers | 1 Comment »

logo-002Fefoo is not a search engine but it works with existing search engines and gives the ability to search more effectively. It is like a directory of search engines. Search engines are sorted according to categories which makes it easier to discover things. With fefoo you have 40+ search categories and 250+ search engines on your fingertips.
 
When you look at the fefoo homepage it looks like most other search engines. The main difference is that when you start searching you can choose the category that you want to search on. This makes it possible to target your search without remembering specific websites. It acts like bookmark for search engines. The homepage has been specifically designed to open in less than a second even on the slowest possible connection. (The first time you visit fefoo it might take a few seconds but after that it will never take more than a few milliseconds to open).

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The first time you visit fefoo, you will only see the top ten categories. You can add or remove and select which categories are visible. There is a very diverse choice of categories from Blogs, Books, Encyclopedia, Finance, Health, Images, Jobs, Music, MP3, Movies, People, Recipes, Real Estate, Shopping, Sports, TV, Torrents, Video to name a few.

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When you search based on a category, you are shown the results and you can refine your search or choose another search engine if you don’t find what you are looking for, using the quickbar on top.

Though having 40+ categories and 250+ search engines is great but it also makes it challenging if you like using the keyboard. With commands you can target all the the categories and search engines. To use a command : (colon) is used.

To search for images use the following command.

:images clouds

This will search for “images” of clouds. This way you can end up targeting any of the 40+ categories supported by fefoo. 

You can use the name of a category or directly a name of a search engine.

:twitter fefoo

This will search for “fefoo” on twitter.

Using a name of search engine you can target the 250+ search engine.

Once you start using commands you will notice that you don’t need to type the complete name of a search engine or category. You can use short hand commands.

:i cats

This will search for “images” of cats. When you begin you search with a : (colon), you move to the command mode and you can see what category or search engine will be used. As soon as you see the name of the search engine or category you can stop and type in your search query. The short hand commands can also be used to target all the 250+ search destinations.

Here is a list of commonly used shorthand commands.
•:you for YouTube
•:mo for movies
•:mu for music
•:tw for twitter
•:wolf for Wolfarm|Alpha
•:d for Dictionary
•:e for Encyclopedia
•:rec for Recipes

When you use the : (colon) command you will see the toolbar on top.

You can use a ; (semicolon) instead of the : (colon) and it will turn off the toolbar and directly show the results on that search engine.

;wolf Where do babies come from? or ;tw fefoo

Written by Vivek Jishtu / fefoo.com