Most search engines search billions of Web sites and return tens of millions of results; some are from reliable Web sites, some are not.  SweetSearch searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by a staff of Internet research experts at Dulcinea Media, and its librarian and teacher consultants.

SweetSearch excludes results from the unreliable sites that rank high in other search engines, and waste your time.  It lets  students choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, rather than having them waste time on unreliable sites.

Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.

Liquor and Cocktails: Types of Liquor
Who knew? Salon.com explores the mystique and the reality of absinthe, the drink that was banned in the United States in 1912 but is now legal again. …
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong.
Banned for a century for inspiring madness and murder, absinthe is legal again.
So pour yourself a glass and get to know the real Green Fairy.

Source: SweetSearch.com is owned and operated by Dulcinea Media.

Additionally, some wallpapers are tagged as NSFW which means they are not suitable for work/school or in any enviornment which doesn’t allow adult-only materials.

The main rule for this website is to keep the images on a certain level of quality. I mean, I don’t allow any child pornography, desktops, hightly offensive etc. wallpapers on wallbase.net, but if you spot any disturbing images, please report them to Yotoon. Thanks!

Oh, and some of the description is originally from 4scrape (the best wallpaper website of its time). If you have any questions or concerns regarding this service, feel free to use the comments section.

The main person behind all of this is Yotoon! – I designed, managed and coded basically everything you see here (except some parts of the scraper program, which is taken from the old 4scrape’s website).

Have fun!

Here are some reasons why you might like to work with us at Chomp:

Large problems to solve
Smart co-workers
We all own a part of what we are working on
Fast growing company in the exciting new mobile space
Strong financial situation
Cool San Francisco location
We have fun with what we are doing

Below is a list of open positions. More comprehensive job descriptions will come soon. If you are interested in any of these positions, or would simply like to speak with us, please visit our site.

Community Manager
Recruiter
Business Development Manager
Crawler Engineer
Backend Engineer
Frontend Engineer
Community Engineer
Operations Engineer
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Visual Designer

Chomp is seeking an experienced backend engineer to take ownership of our crawling and search engine components. We’re ideally looking for someone with experience at a search company, although this isn’t essential. The ideal candidate is well-versed in both PHP and Python as you’ll be using both of these languages on a daily basis. We’re looking for a regex and scripting wizard with experience building multi-threaded applications. You’ll also be in charge of our search indexing and ranking algorithms, so this is very much an all-rounder position. The right candidate will be excited by that rather than intimidated.

- Chomp is an exciting new mobile start-up, funded by top Silicon Valley investors & working on the biggest mobile problem the world faces today.
- We are engineers, smart & aggressive… & have built and sold companies in the mobile space previously.

- You will be working with an extremely small team & will get in on this opportunity early!
- Smart, hungry and ready to make your mark. It would be a plus if you have a good sense of humor too.
- Prepared to do whatever it takes to succeed. This means the non-sexy start-up stuff too… (i.e. sysadmin, dba, ops work etc., or picking up the bagels for team breakfast)
- Passionate about building products that blow people away.

Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of the search components of our backend infrastructure – in particular our crawler and ranking algorithm.
- Write and maintain high quality, scalable, unit tested code.
- Be involved in QA testing.

Experience:
- Strong Python & PHP skills. Experience with CodeIgniter a plus.
- Strong MySQL skills, including both query and database design.
- Backend experience at a search company is highly desired.
- Experience with open source search engine libraries such as Lucene or Sphinx highly desired.
- Experience with distributed version control, preferably Git.

Source: chompapps.com

Applications buyers come to GetApp.com because they can find, compare and chose from a very large number of enterprise applications, well organized by categories. Additional services enable them to see peer reviews to help with their decisions, use an interactive online tool to decide the best deployment method or contact multiple providers in one go in order to prepare a shortlist. They find relevant, crisp and consistent information in a single place, which save them a lot of time, hours v.s weeks, to make the right choice. And all of this for FREE!

Application providers come to GetApp.com to get their applications listed and found by prospects. They can reach out to a new global audience of active buyers, get high quality traffic to their website and receive buyers information that is only relevant to the market they serve well.

GetApp.com has been founded by Christophe Primault and Manuel Jaffrin. They combine a lot of experience in general management of software companies, B2B marketing, internet start-ups and new technologies.

Check their full profiles at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/primault and http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjaffrin

When they are not listening to users feedback and preparing the next features of GetApp.com, they try to keep fit. Triathlon is a great way of doing it, check their last experience here.

GetApp.com is also made of a great team of top notch experts in SEO, analytics, business analysis, web design, database optimization, PHP development, accounting….and we are from Barcelona.

Source: GetApp.com

“We are very excited about our new regulatory monitoring service,” said Ron Hogan, vice president and founder, CQ StateTrack. “This new service enables our subscribers to keep current on proposed and adopted regulations using the same interactive map-based display, search engine and alerting functionality they have come to rely on from CQ StateTrack’s legislative service.”

In addition, the customizable reports and custom e-mail alerts that are valuable features of CQ StateTrack’s legislative service are also available in the new regulations service. As a result, users receive accurate, real-time intelligence on the state regulatory developments that affect their interests.

The new regulations monitoring service from CQ StateTrack provides:
State regulations searches that provide the ability to filter results using keywords, publication date ranges, agencies and action types. In addition, when searching within a state, users can narrow results by specific agencies or register publications.

Customizable profiles that enable users to manage regulatory intelligence by issue, with custom fields for key information. Users can elect to specify priority level (i.e., high, medium, low) and add customized notes.

Daily custom e-mail alerts that link to the state sites, where the original documents can be accessed–including charts, graphs and other images. Users also can elect to receive updates as soon as the information is available or at a specified time.

CQ StateTrack’s regulations monitoring service is now available. To request a free demonstration of the service, go to: www.cq.com/StateRegs.

CQ StateTrack’s legislative tracking service boasts a powerful search engine and map-based display that connects its users with the status and text of legislation in all 50 states. The service also offers customized bill reports that can be tailored to users’ specific interests. These reports are automatically updated as bills are introduced and move through the legislative process.

CQ-Roll Call Group is the leading source of congressional news and insight, legislative tracking and grassroots mobilization services. With the largest press corps on Capitol Hill, CQ-Roll Call Group provides policy professionals and opinion leaders with the essential information and tools they need to understand and influence Congress.

Source: CQ-Roll Call Group

That takes care of the horizontal search engines.

Next we have the vertical search engines, starting with the first tier, e.g. Monster.com for job search, Kayak for travel, PubMed for medicine / health, Ticketmaster for tickets, and so forth.

The second tier would be alternative search engines such as Indeed for job search, UpTake for travel, Healthline for health, and FanSnap for tickets. We could even go to the third tier with Glassdoor for jobs, Healia for health, hotelicopter for travel, and NinjaTickets for tickets. Is their a fourth tier? Trust me, there is.

But whatever their relative size, the superiority of Vertical Search Engines (VSE), is very well known by now. Since they are built from the bottom up to solve specific types of queries, they can return far better results, and therefore produce a more satisfying user experience.

So who’s to say that these VSE pose *a potential* threat to Google? Well, I do for one, and I am in good company.

Sramana Mitra notes,”Biased or not, however, I have found a few vulnerabilities in Google’s relentless march to success. The most significant of those is the increasing verticalization of the web. Or more specifically, in the rise of vertical search engines.”

Om Malik adds, “Vertical search can offer a more focused audience, and thus increase the efficiency of ads on the search engine.”

Danny Sullivan, concurs in Ken Auletta’s excellent new book Googled: The end of the world as we know it: “If I were Google, I’d be worried about vertical searches…”

That bears repeating. “If I were Google, I’d be worried about vertical searches…”

But if you look at the latest statistics, almost all searches are performed on the top 3 or 4 horizontal search engines (and their own vertical sites), with a very small slice of the pie going exclusively to the VSE. Why? Or rather, why not?

The answer is The Missing Link.

Behind door #1 you have all of the horizontal search engines. Behind door #2 are the hundreds of VSE that we have covered on AltSearchEngines.com (in over 4,000 posts).

However, when we open door #3, we discover that it is essentially empty (there are a few exceptions)! What belongs there is the One Site, one new homepage that has but one purpose, and that is to overlay the best of the existing vertical search engines. The primary design requirement is that there be no logos or confusing brand names. The average user simply does not recognize the dozens of different logos and search engine names out there. Again, trust me. This one page must make use of intuitive symbols or icons.

So what exactly should this page look like? That’s the Future of Search for 2010 (not that the constant stream of innovation will slow down, it won’t). Since we just passed the holidays for 2009, I’ll leave you with this word picture: Visualize an Advent calendar, a beautiful house with 25 windows, each covered with tiny shutters. Every day you open one window and discover a wonderful VSE inside! You can take it from there. 2010 should be the year that we compete for the very best design to place behind door #3, the door that really matters in the Search “game.”

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What is Pressini?

Pressini.de – ist die erste deutschsprachige Zeitungssuchmaschine.

Pressini.de – is the first German-language newspaper search engine.

Was ist eine Zeitungs-Suchmaschine?

What is a newspaper search engine?

Pressini.de – die Zeitungssuchmaschine – sucht wie der Name schon sagt nur auf offiziellen Webseiten von deutschen Zeitungen .

Pressini.de – the newspaper search engine – looks like the name suggests, only on official web sites of German newspapers.

Pressini.de ist anders! Pressini bietet erstmalig in Deutschland einen weiteren Vorteil: Pressini kann die Zeit lesen! Das heißt, Sie können Ihre Suche zeitabhängig eingrenzen und alles auflisten lassen, was in den letzten 24 Stunden, in der letzten Woche, im letztem Monat, im letzten Jahr oder wie gewöhnlich ohne Zeitbegrenzung publiziert wurde.

Pressini.de is different! Pressini first in Germany, offers another advantage: Pressini able to read the time! This means you can narrow your search a timing issue and to list everything in the last 24 hours in the last week in the last month was last year, as usual, or published without time limit.

Mit Pressini.de – die Zeitungssuchmaschine – können Sie nicht nur in allen Zeitungen deutschlandweit suchen, sondern auch regional in den jeweiligen Tageszeitungen einzelner deutscher Bundesländer.

With Pressini.de – the newspaper search engine – you can search nationwide, not only in all the papers, but also regionally in the respective newspapers individual German states.

Die Entstehung von Pressini kam aus einem persönlichen Bedarf, nach Artikeln zu suchen, die wiedergeben, was bestimmte Personen des öffentlichen Lebens in einem bestimmten Zeitraum über die Tageszeitung “gesagt” haben.

The emergence of Pressini came from a personal need to look for articles that reflect what you said certain people in public life in a given period of the newspaper. ”

Und so entstand Pressini – die Zeitungssuchmaschine.

And so was born Pressini – the newspaper search engine.