Openings available for Search Engine Idol panel!!

November 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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We are now casting for the first season of Search Engine Idol to be held on December 4th at the Search Insider Summit in Park City. We’re looking for new and innovative search engines or search alternatives that would like the opportunity to demonstrate their wares to a panel of judges and audience of search experts.

To be considered, please comment here or tweet me with under 140 characters (make sure to include your URL) on why you deserve a slot. Selected contestants will appear on stage at SIS with the chance to do a live demo audition and convince the audience why they’re the best thing since sliced Google.

Sorry, reps from Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask are not eligible.

Session Overview:

Join us for the first season of Search Engine Idol, a unique talent show focused on finding the next superstar search engine or search alternative. Each contestant will have 5 minutes to conduct a few live search queries and state their case for why they deserve Google-Killer status. Then the judges will weigh in before the audience votes for the winner.

Hosted by: Your Truly

Update 11/25: I’m excited to report that Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines.com will be a guest judge for this event. Still a few slots left for contestants so, if you’re interested, drop me a line.

Search for various file types with filedigg

November 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Web - filedigg can be used as a normal search along with additional features. With a click of a button we can search for docs, pdf, ppt, xls, swf files. Real Time Search / Time frame search is provided to know latest (24 Hrs, 1 Week, 1 Month, 1 Year) results of the search query. Time Frame search can be used to know news, current affairs and latest updates for any search query.

Colors – Provides an option for searching in different color backgrounds. This is limited to web search only and not applicable for other searches.

Image Search - Search for Images and Videos with single search query.With a click of a button we can search for jpg, png, gif,bmp file types.Interface looks cool and different.

Wiki Search – Search all Wiki sites around the world (not just Wikipedia). Do you know, there are thousands of wiki sites and they provide very good information. Importance of wiki is they provide qualitative information.

Locator - Locate your favorite places, shopping malls, cinema halls, restaurants, pubs and so on with maps and addresses.

Sports - Sports search is tailor made for sports enthu people. We can access live scores, live streaming, highlights, records etc with in a click of a button. Follow live scores while you search the web.

Education - Education search is fine tuned to provide quality results related to learning. These results are fetched from world’s top 100 university websites. This can be used by people from all streams and age groups who want to learn any new topic – From Software to Politics to Medicine to Science and so on. I repeat – “These results are fetched from world’s top 100 university websites.”

Job Search - Search for Jobs on filedigg with flexible features. Experience based filtering, Location based filtering and Time based filtering.

Shop – For Electronics, Computers – Shop for feature enables you to search for electronic items (mobile phones, digital cameras, camcorder), computers, laptops. Get latest deals on electronics, computers, laptops and know customer reviews.

Source: filedigg.com

Manuals Search Engine Manuals Search Engine

November 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Rippol – an intelligent video discovery engine?

November 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Rippol-ThumbnailRippol strives to make it easy for you to discover videos you’ll love. We built our entire system from the look and feel to the algorithms powering the backend all with that one goal in mind. We continue to innovate new ways to help you discover what you’ll love to watch.  We want to help you discover stuff you’ll love to watch.
We’re a group of friends that love hard computer science problems and great video.

We’ve overshot release dates cause good just wasn’t good enough, sleep has been lost, summer fun past on, personal finance has been compromised and we’ve had a blast the entire way!

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Rippol uses technology from the realm of machine learning. Every video you watch, rate and review affects The Butterfly Effect Network which changes the order you and others see content in real-time.

The Butterfly Effect Network cross references videos similar to what you like and have watched with the habits and opinions of your friends and demographics. Given that information it thinks about what you might like best in that exact moment and then presents you with some choices… choices just for you

We hope you enjoy what we’ve made for you. Please leave feedback, good or bad, so we can make Rippol even better!

Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RippolEffect

-The Rippol Team

Source: Rippol.com and MakeUseOf.com

This Christmas, give the gift of tickets from FanSnap!

November 25th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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FanSnap, the live event ticket search engine for fans, is now the holiday gift engine for fans. Holiday shoppers can avoid the “Black Friday” mall rush and quickly and easily find those just-right tickets online.

FanSnap helps holiday shoppers compare more than 11 million tickets from dozens of ticket companies and find everything from great bargains to once in a lifetime experiences with just a few clicks.

What better gift to give to family, friends, or colleagues than the experience of enjoying a live event? And what better way to find, compare and select those gift tickets than by using a search engine designed to make it easy to find the best tickets for your dollar? While tickets are the perfect thoughtful gift, it is a great feeling to know you will not be paying more, or settling for lesser tickets, than you should.

TN-590553_FanSnap.comhomepage.pngThe ticket market is exploding with entertainment choices this time of the year. NFL and college football tickets, NBA and college basketball tickets, NHL tickets, Broadway tickets and concert tickets are all great choices for the sports, concert, or theater fan. The lifetime memories created from attending a great event with family or friends make live event tickets the gift that keeps on giving.

Finding great ticket values is easy using the FanSnap ticket search engine.

Here are some ticket tips:

– In this economy, so many season ticket holders are selling tickets that it is not uncommon to find below face value tickets because there is so much competition between sellers.

– FanSnap Maps make it easy to see at-a-glance when a motivated ticket seller prices their tickets to sell fast, as lower priced tickets are signified by lighter colored markers.

– Best value stars also highlight at-a-glance the lowest priced tickets in key areas of each venue.

– Zooming into our interactive maps allows shippers to compare ticket offers from numerous providers placed in clearly labeled rows, and many venue maps include photos of the view from each section so there are no unexpected surprises.

For those with a larger budget, finding tickets for exclusive, historically tough-to-get events has also become a snap. Holiday shoppers can easily find these, and many more, tickets at FanSnap.com just by entering the name of the team, artist or show in the simple search box.

For example:
Super Bowl tickets
NBA All-Star Game tickets
BCS National Championship tickets
Rose Bowl tickets
Lakers tickets
Celtics tickets
Cavaliers tickets
Red Wings tickets
Rangers tickets
Flyers tickets
New York Yankees tickets
Red Sox tickets
Duke Blue Devils tickets
North Carolina Tarheels tickets
Texas Longhorns basketball tickets
Lady Gaga tickets
Taylor Swift tickets
U2 tickets
Bon Jovi tickets
Cirque du Soleil tickets
Wicked tickets
Jersey Boys tickets

No more ties, cologne, candy, or impersonal gift cards! With more than 30 thousand events to choose from on FanSnap, gift givers can be confident they can find those just-right tickets for the fans in their lives.

Happy holidays from the FanSnap team!

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