Is Feedmil the best RSS search engine?
August 15th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Peer-to-Peer Search? No, Peer-to-Peer Travel! Airbnb
August 15th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Airbnb is an online marketplace for peer-to-peer traveling.
We enable people to earn money by renting out extra space, and offer travelers a viable alternative to hotels. It’s simple. Nice folks, folks like you, list their guest rooms, futons, and even couches on the site and set a price per night.
Adventurous travelers looking for a place to stay can search the listings for an accomodation that’s just right. When they find a match, guests can book your room via credit card. You receive a notification to check out their profile, and decide if the guest is appropriate for your pad. When you accept a guest, contact information is exchanged.
Source: Airbnb.com
CEO Views: Adam Healey, CEO of hotelicopter
August 15th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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This is Adam Healey, Co-founder and CEO of hotelicopter. We are a hotel search engine that provides real-time rates and availability for 150,000 hotels from over 30 leading travel sites.
Q: Out of the many search strategies out there, which 2 to 3 do you think hold the most potential for advertisers/marketers?
A: Vertical search engines, social search engines, and personalized search engines. Of course, hotelicopter is taking advantage of all three*, because we are a vertical search engine focused on hotels that is personalized based on the user and their social network (via our facebook integration). Advertisers are able to pinpoint more specific audiences based on the focus of the vertical search engine and the demographic/psychographic makeup of the user.
Q: From a business perspective, how difficult is it to actually get a viable engine?
A: That entirely depends on the confluence of the team, the market being addressed, and the product itself. Generally, the bigger the market opportunity, the more you can get away with on the product and the team. A great product won’t work if the market it is addressing doesn’t exist. And I tend to think that good teams can fail and bad teams can succeed, again based on the market opportunity.
Q: What kind of $ is needed for R&D before launch?
A: Web sites today can be built for very little money. But to win in a large market, you need capital not just to build the product, but to market the product. This question has a million different answers, depending on the specifics of the market opportunity. However, in today’s web environment, it’s most important to make yourself visible for people who are looking for your service to find you. This means a company should focus on search engine optimization from a very early stage, even if they are building their own search engine.
Q: SearchMe, for instance, reportedly had $44M and its CEO said it would take a total of $100M. Does this sound on target?
A: Sounds like a lot of capital, but again, this depends on the specifics of the situation and the market being addressed. I would love to have $100 million.
*Note: Some older search engines serve a single purpose. newers ones combine two technologies, e.g. OneRiot is “Real-time + Social Search” and Truevert is “Green + Semantic Search.”
Here we see a “triple.” hotelicopter is a Vertical + Social + Personalized search engine.
This is an important trend to begin following that we call Convergence. – editor
The dashboard for what’s happening Right Now: Surchur
August 15th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Is surchur for everybody?
If you are wondering what search engine to use on a daily basis, you have to choose between more than a 100 ones. Here are a few suggestions:
- Real time search is becoming crucial – whether to journalists who mine the online data, surfers looking for the hottest topic or people monitoring their favorite topic on an ongoing basis. You might want to know what people are saying about your brand or business right now
- It is not only a social media search engine, it is a dashboard for news, photos, tweets, blogs, video, products and more for whatever you are searching for
- It is a memetracker for any search term you choose, it has a great selection of sources for the most popular discussions, pictures, blogs, news, video and products relating to your surched keyword – it scan the most important sources to keep you updated
- If you are not interested in all these sources, you may choose to view your topic only in the selected source, for example pictures http://surchur.com/pictures/july+4
- The latest web trends are continuously tracked so you don’t miss out on anything that is hot right now, weekly hot or catching fire
- It is a one-page-overview meta-search engine where every single page has a clean URL– great marketing tool, but not only…
- You can bookmark a clean URL and whenever you check that page you will always find it updated
- It has a surchbar which shows you just how popular your topic is on surchur, blogs and twitter
- Any search you make and all the hot topics can be tracked via RSS feed
- The history feature for a topic gives you the opportunity to see what was going on for a topic in the past.
- It’s time saver, well designed, and organized.
- Need more? We improve with customer feedback
so feel free to add a comment
Real time search becomes important and relevant when you are interested in what is going on out there right now. It is a great tool for marketers in order to see how people talk about their business or brand right now; for journalist who mine the online data and might find great resources in what people are talking about right now; and of course for any surfer who wants to monitor a favorite topic or just to be kept updated at all times. Surchur is for those who want to be kept updated at all times with what is happening right now.
We have built surchur.com to facilitate this need. It is crucial to know what is happening right now on the internet, whether it is blogs, twitter, photos, news and more and what is unique about us, is that we deliver all this on a one-page overview dashboard.
Surchur.com is a dashboard to the now…but you all know that by now
As such, our real time search engine gives you a broad view into the real time web, but that’s not all. You may notice the weekly hots, daily hots, catching fire and quick tips tabs, but have you noticed the “history” link in the navigation bar? That will take you to a record of that term for the past few days. You get to see how the term is appearing on the web now, and if the term has been popular in recent days, what has happening for that term in recent history.
Check out our other unique and cool features: history, bookmark, dashboard, surchmeter and more.
Source: Surchur.com
Idealius – All your search engines in one place!
August 15th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Madrid, Spain – idealius.com has announced LookItUp! 1.0, their new search engine utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, LookItUp! offers a radically improved approach for searching anything. LookItUp! aims to be the most comprehensive search engine of search engines.
From a single search, gain free, instant access to millions of pages from hundreds of search engines. Users can find exactly what they want by tapping into thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, images, audio, video, articles, blogs and associations. It’s the perfect tool to drill down by keyword, site location as well as by filtered search.
“I was tired of having to jump around from one search engine to another, particularly from my iPhone” said Carlos G. Varela, CEO and founder of idealius.com “With LookItUp! in the palm of your hand, now anyone can search all these thousands of sites at the same time, on one simple search, returning last minutes info.”
LookItUp! features hundred of relevant search engines, including A9, ABC, Accoona, AltaVista, Amazon, Ask, AskJolene, Atomfilms, FAST, Alltheweb Image, BBC News, CareerBuilder, CNN News, dmoz Open Directory, ezinearticles, Findarticles, FoxNews, goarticles, Google, Google Blog Search, Google Images, Google Video, MSN, MSN Images, PicSearch, Reuters, Technorati, Truveo, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Audio, Yahoo! Jobs, and Yahoo! News.
Feature Highlights:
* Hundred of Relevant search engines
* Effortlessly Filter results
* Access thousands of sites from hundred of search engines in a single search
* Access millions of filtered and rating pages
Supported Languages:
* US English and Spanish
System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later
Pricing and Availability:
LookItUp! 1.0 for iPhone is only $0.99 USD (0.79 Euro) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.
Located in historic Madrid, Spain, idealius.com is a privately held company founded in 2009 by independent software developer Carlos G. Varela. Committed to providing the highest quality software, idealius.com was founded for the purpose of developing personal services for the iPhone platform, with emphasis on total customer satisfaction.
Source: idealius.com
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