OneRiot and Yoono announce strategic partnership.

June 30th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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OneRiot is a search engine built on sharing – specifically the passing of good information between friends. So, it makes sense that the yoosers of Yoono, a popular tool that allows users of multiple social networks to consolidate and manage their online social interactions, would love the added perks of realtime search. And as of today, they’ll have it on hand. Realtime search will allow Yoosers to discover the freshest, most chattered about content on the web, then do what they do best – share it with their buddies!

picture-6261Yoono 6.1, which just dropped this morning, is a super-fresh version of this five-star recommended add-on. Offering a prettified and simplified user interface, and support for the latest APIs from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, Yoono 6 will further boost users’ standard ability to easily share pages, images, or videos from their browser across all their networks at once. We’re so pumped to have found another great Search Program Partner in Yoono – and we can’t wait to hear what their drooly fans (seriously – people love Yoono like marshmallows love rice krispies) think about us. If you’re not already using it, get on it – you can learn more about it and download for Firefox (IE coming soon!) here. Once you’re booted up, talk to us about it by dropping a comment, or reaching out to us on twitter at @OneRiot or @Yoono – we can’t wait to here what you think!

And from the Yoono blog…

Today, we’re announcing Yoono 6.1 which will polish the experience with new features, usability improvements and bug fixes. Additionally, we’re excited to announce a partnership with real-time search engine, OneRiot.

OneRiot and Yoono are a great example of two technologies that work perfectly together to enhance the user experience. Yoono is about delivering your realtime social stream to you wherever you are on the web. OneRiot is about helping users find the pulse of the realtime web. By crawling the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexing the content on those pages in seconds, OneRiot delivers search results that reflect what our friends and other people are talking about, sharing and looking at. And of course with Yoono it’s easy to share your OneRiot discoveries across all you social networks at once! We’re excited to have OneRiot as a part of Yoono’s seamless experience connecting users to the realtime social web.

Sources: OneRiot and Yoono

SimplyHired in Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil, Netherlands

June 30th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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simplyhired-logoExtending its presence through Europe and into South America, Simply Hired, the job search engine, today announced the launch of five new job search websites in Italy (www.simplyhired.it), Ireland (www.simplyhired.ie), Belgium (www.simplyhired.be), the Netherlands (www.simplyhired.nl) and Brazil (www.simplyhired.com.br).

Widely regarded as “prosumer” countries with early adopters of innovative technology and Internet usage, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Brazil have primed job seekers to embrace localized job search engines.

Having indexed more than five million jobs worldwide, Simply Hired’s country-specific destination websites in Italy, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Brazil now enable job seekers to search from the leading job boards, content websites, newspapers and company career pages in each country — providing a simple online job search experience. Through its international partnership with LinkedIn, Simply Hired’s local websites will also allow job seekers to discover connections at companies, providing them the inside track on the hiring process. Without requiring membership, Simply Hired immediately shows returning users which new listings have been added since their last visit and offers an advanced search option to return job listings that match specific criteria, all in the users’ native language.

“Simply Hired is proud to offer localized job search engines in Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia,” said Sachin Shah, Director of International, Simply Hired. “Our recent expansion to Italy, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Brazil is a testament of our commitment to helping job seekers around the world.”

“As Simply Hired continues to grow and expand globally, localizing our job search services is crucial to ensuring successful market entry,” said Gautam Godhwani, Co-founder and CEO, Simply Hired. “Localized Simply Hired sites in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, the U.K., Germany, Spain and France are already providing job seekers in these countries the best opportunity possible to discover their dream job. By expanding our services to Italy, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Brazil, Simply Hired is demonstrating a strong commitment to the worldwide job search market.”

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For recruiters and direct employers, Simply Hired offers the ability to add their jobs into these international sites through a job feed. They can also advertise their employment brand via premium display ads that appear on relevant search result pages.

To express interest in including your jobs, visit any Simply Hired international site and click the “Add Jobs” link at the bottom of the page. For the publisher community such as job boards, bloggers and content sites, Simply Hired provides additional, relevant job listings to supplement existing content. By including job listings on their sites, publishers can improve their visitor engagement and increase traffic.

Source: SimplyHired.com

Yes, Virginia, we do have a search engine, Hotelicopter

June 30th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in News, Travel, Updates, Verticals | No Comments »

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Charlottesville, Va.  Hotelicopter, the new hotel search engine that helps online travelers book hotels, vacations, travel deals, and resorts, has appointed Colin Steele as its Chief Technology Officer. hotelicopter specializes in finding hotels deals for Las Vegas hotels, Orlando hotels, Chicago hotels, Los Angeles hotels, and New York hotels.

Adam Healey, hotelicopter’s Co-founder and CEO, commented, “Colin is a great addition to our management team. His depth of experience, managerial talent, and a desire to push the envelope of what’s possible make him a perfect fit for our company. I look forward to working with him as we continue to bring innovative leadership to the travel industry.”

For almost two decades, Colin has worked in IT, management and entrepreneurial environments, with particular focus on IP networking software development, distributed systems and the Internet. As one of America Online’s early employees, he wrote AOL’s first Internet gateway. Later he helped architect and develop AOL Instant Messenger. During his tenure as Director of AIM Host Development, Colin designed and implemented key components of the system and co-authored patented technology for AIM. Much of his work remains in use as AOL’s core infrastructure.

After leaving AOL, Colin launched WebG2 Inc., offering innovative online business intelligence services. Since then, he has worked with numerous startups and early-stage ventures, in industries ranging from food service to construction to music, in roles ranging from CTO to investor and member of the Board of Directors to programmer.

Hotelicopter is a hotel search engine. We help you decide where to stay for your next trip, and where you can book it for the best available price. hotelicopter searches rates and availability from 30 leading travel sites and over 150,000 hotels worldwide. Founded in 2006, hotelicopter is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Source: hotelicopter.com

Google vs. Bing – usability report shows early results

June 29th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Aardvark CEO “We are now in public beta, check us out!”

June 29th, 2009 by Guest Author
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Hi Charles,

Since you’ve blogged about Aardvark, I thought you might be interested in some exciting developments.

First, we’ve completed our private beta, and just launched open sign-ups to the public!

Anyone can join now at http://vark.com using their Facebook account.

(We’re integrating with other social networks very soon.)

Second, Aardvark was in the Sunday New York Times!

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You can check out the online version of it here.

When the author first contacted us, he said that he was inspired to write about Aardvark by our early supporters (that’s you!).  Thank you.

We’re really thrilled about the piece — we think it captures what Aardvark is all about.  

And third, we have some great product news coming out soon.  I’ll let you know when it’s ready so you can pass it on to your readers.

Let me know if you or your readers have any feedback about Aardvark, I’d love to hear about it.

Best,

Max

Max Ventilla, CEO

Aardvark discovers the perfect person to answer any question in minutes.