Wikipedia on Wikiwix on Wikipedia?

July 28th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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wi1Wikiwix is a multilingual Web search engine operated independently from Wikimedia. It gives only results out of Wikipedia’s database. Features include many texts, images and geographical search for maps called “atlas” (the latter by selecting graphical maps) in 13 languages:

(Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish).

The logo pictures a Kiwi bird which is picking food off the ground and the motto is “the ultimate Wikipedia articles search”. The search engine is operated by Linterweb based in Val-de-Reuil, France (8 employees), which also is the publisher of the DVD Wikipedia v0.5 in 2007 (see History of Wikipedia).

Wikiwix has been added as an option for external search (along with some other search engines such as Google and Yahoo) on several Wikipedia projects, for example on English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Source: Wikipedia here.
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benefind ist ein Social Business (Sozialunternehmen)

July 28th, 2009 by Steffen Schilke
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benefind ist ein Social Business (Sozialunternehmen).

benefind is a Social Business (Social Enterprise).

In diesem Bereich tätige Unternehmen verknüpfen wirtschaftliche Prinzipien mit karitativen Zwecken.

In this area, companies combine economic principles with charitable purposes.

Social Businesses unterscheiden sich von üblichen Unternehmen insbesondere durch zwei Merkmale: Zum einen ist ihre Zweckbestimmung ausschließlich auf die Lösung wichtiger sozialer Probleme ausgerichtet, zum anderen verzichten Investoren bei Social Businesses weitgehend auf eigenwirtschaftliche Interessen.

Social Businesses differ from normal enterprises in particular by two characteristics: First, its purpose is solely to solving important social problems, on the other investors in renounce Social Businesses largely on its own economic interests.

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Social Businesses wie herkömmliche Unternehmen. In contrast to social projects with the same substantive objective Businesses Social work as conventional businesses.

Der Gewinn verbleibt jedoch größtenteils im Unternehmen und dient der Ausweitung der Dienstleistung durch das Wachstum des Unternehmens.

The gain, however, remains largely in the company and serves the expansion of services by the growth of the company.

Im Falle von benefind werden alle erwirtschafteten Gewinne an die teilnehmenden Hilfsorganisationen gespendet oder in das Unternehmenswachstum investiert.* Sie können sich also sicher sein: Ihre Hilfe kommt an!

In the case of benefind all profits to the participating agencies or donated to the company growth to invest .* So you can rest assured: your help arrives!

benefind ist in Kooperation mit vielen großen Partnern entstanden: Microsoft stellt mit Bing.de eine der weltweit führenden Suchtechnologien kostenlos zur Verfügung.

benefind is in cooperation with many great partners emerged: Microsoft Bing.de notes with one of the world’s leading search technologies freely available.

Die Kanzlei SPITZWEG Partnerschaft berät benefind in allen steuerlichen und juristischen Angelegenheiten zu besonders günstigen Konditionen.

The firm SPITZWEG Partnership advises benefind in all fiscal and legal affairs at very favorable terms.

Der SuMa-eV zählt als wichtiger Wegbegleiter zu den Partnern der ersten Stunde und steht uns in allen technischen Fragen als kostenloser und kompetenter Ansprechpartner zur Seite. Yahoo! unterstützt benefind mit Sonderkonditionen für Werbeeinblendungen.

The Suma eV-counts as an important companion to the partners of the first hour and stands us in all technical issues as a free and competent partner to the side. Yahoo! Benefind supported with special rates for advertising.

Unser derzeit vierköpfiges Kern-Team wird durch zahlreiche ehrenamtliche Berater ergänzt.

Our current four-man core team is supported by numerous honorary consultants.

Gemeinsam möchten wir einen Beitrag zur finanziellen Unterstützung von Hilfsorganisationen leisten und unsere Nutzer regelmäßig neu über humanitäre Projekte informieren!

Together we would like to contribute to the financial support of relief organizations and our users regularly on humanitarian projects!

Source: benefind.de

SeatQuest – a visual search engine for tickets

July 28th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Ticket, Updates, Verticals | No Comments »

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SeatQuest is a Chicago-based software start-up company dedicated to digitizing seating charts for concerts, theatre, and sporting events. It is the first and only visual search engine for tickets.

SeatQuest’s mission is for you to “Know where you sittn” before purchasing tickets for upcoming events.

SeatQuest works by aggregating tickets on sale from its affiliate partners and conveniently displaying them on the event’s seating chart.

For a detailed clip on how to use the SeatQuest website:

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Click here!

Source: SeatQuest

NeXplore Search Ranks in the Top 2,500 Websites

July 28th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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NeXplore Corporation today announced that NeXplore Search, the company’s interactive and media-rich search engine, climbed more than 2,500 positions over the past six months, breaking into the top 2,500 internationally ranked websites according to the Web information company Alexa.

(AltSearchEngines.com is #56,456 according to Alexa. -editor)

Launched in January 2008, NeXplore Search (www.NeXplore.com), currently in public beta, is an interactive and visually engaging Web 2.0 search engine optimized for a superior end-user experience, multi-media display and social sharing integration.

According to Alexa, in July 2009 NeXplore Search’s traffic rank stands at 2,277. Alexa calculates traffic rank using a combination of average daily visitors and page views over the past three months.

“We are very pleased with NeXplore’s sustained growth in ranking,” said Edward Mandel, chief executive officer for NeXplore Corporation. “Improving the search experience is a hot topic right now. We’ve focused on this aspect as well. We believe NeXplore’s interactive, intuitive and appealing interface is the future of search — available today.”

Today, advances in meta-search techniques, Web 2.0 technology, and ubiquitous broadband have given rise to a new age of Internet search, and NeXplore Search has given Internet search a bold new face.

NeXplore Search epitomizes the cutting-edge of meta-search and Web 2.0 technology by delivering to consumers only the most accurate search results pulled from leading search engines and filtered by a social networking overlay for heightened personal relevancy.

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With three unique, visually rich search-result display options (summary view, gallery view and line view) and three proprietary drilldown-eliminating website preview options (thumbnail preview, window preview and pane preview), plus an array of innovative and intuitive personalization and social-sharing features, NeXplore Search has change the fast of Internet search forever.

NeXplore Search dramatically redefines the search experience. A visually engaging, user-friendly, multi-media interface makes navigation effortless and drill down obsolete. Computer intelligence combined with human community fosters greater relevancy — in both search results and ad displays. Intuitive refinement tools and advanced personalization features make search faster, easier and more enjoyable for everyone — from Web newbies to average users to accomplished surfers.

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By logging onto NeXplore Search, a user is given a unique experience, unmatched by other search engines.  Instead of the boring “text-in, text-out” Internet search experience, NeXplore Search provides a graphically appealing and functional interface.

As the user reviews the feature-rich results of NeXplore Search he or she is able to interact with the page through rich-Internet application (RIA) Web 2.0 technology developed by NeXplore’s world-class engineers.

Here is an overview of NeXplore Search unique features and functionalities available today:

First, users are able to select among several viewing options:

A Summary View which includes a thumbnail picture of the search results homepage, with a summary tagline and web address;

A Gallery View
, which shows a larger version of the thumbnail of the search results, and;

A Line View, which shows a traditional but more colorful text display.

A user can interact with any of the NeXplore Search viewing options by hovering over the results itself, which will then be previewed by a thumbnail image of the page.

Alternatively the user can click on the Preview button and load the page in a box that drops down from the results.

From here, the user can interact with the page to determine if he wants to navigate through it by choosing the “Go To Site” tab or choose “Close Preview” and return to the search results.

After navigating through the homepage of the search, the user has two other unique options: Save or  Trash.

By clicking on the Save button, the user is able to save the search result that he likes best, and review them at a later time, which is only available to a user if he has joined the NeXplore Search community.

By clicking on the Trash button,
the user is able to remove the search result from the list and continue to examine other search results provided by NeXplore Search.

Source: NeXplore

Tixuma – Suchmaschine de Deutschland

July 28th, 2009 by Steffen Schilke
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Tixuma ist eine Suchmaschine, die seinen registrierten Usern Geld dafür zahlt, daß diese Tixuma für Ihre Suche im Internet verwenden. Zu diesem Zweck wird, wie bereits von anderen Webseiten bekannt, Werbung in Form von Werbebanner etc., in den Suchergebnissen eingeblendet. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Seiten jedoch, werden bis zu 80% der Werbeeinnahmen an seine User ausgeschüttet.