Sputtr is the latest and best-looking Meta Search engine currently available in the World Wide Web right now.
In default mode, the Search engine is powered by Google. However, you can choose from a wide array of search engines ranging from Live Search, Ask.com, Yahoo! Search to Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Images to even search engines of ReddIt, Wikipedia, SlashDot. Flickr etc. All in all you can choose from the current 36 options. The Search engine can be used in 6 languages besides English: Francaise, Espanol, Italiano, Deutsch (DE), Deutsch (AT) and Chinese.
Economic Times reports that India's NIC (National Informatics Centre), will potentially receive help from Yahoo! or Google with whom they are in talks currently, for an improvement of over 5,000 websites' search engines.
The requirement for more advanced and hi-tech search engines arises as NIC hosts a multitude of data of national importance such as "results of all examinations such as CBSE and civil services, the online mobile phone directory of those customers who are part of the do-not-call registry, birth, death, caste, domicile and residence and land records".
Topix a news aggregator site is switching mode and becoming an open website. More than 1 million people posted 5.5 million comments, adding more than 30,000 comments a day in Topix. And many of the most passionate discussions were happening at the local level, reports Pandia.
SEOmoz has launched a new version of the factors that accounts for search engines' ranking algorithms. The new version addresses the current picture and significance of various factors in the algorithms. Thirty five search engine experts have poured in their views and expertise to compile the new version. The previous version was launched in 2005.
E-consultancy has uploaded a free 12- page briefing on the Paid Search industry in the UK. A user only needs to register to download the document.
The document contains the following useful info:
- An overview of the UK market (including market valuation and trends)
- A write-up of the key points emerging from the discussion
- New statistics
Google Vs. Yahoo! Vs. Microsoft is fodder for the search engine world. Neil Patel has made the figurative competition to the fisticuff level with a new game Search Engine Smackdown.
You can be any of the six players who are Google founders (Larry & Sergey), Yahoo founders (Jerry & David), or Microsoft founders (Bill & Paul). You play the game by answering questions. Every right answer gets you opportunities to win while every wrong answer gets you smacked. The most wonderful thing about the game is that the referee is Danny Sullivan. Game On.
TimeSearch allows a user to search for information based on time, location and related category. This really is interesting, you can specify if you wish to search for information regarding an event that happened in any year in AD or BC.
Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land informs about the new officers elected by the SEMPO 2007 Board Of Directors.
- Hotchkiss, Chairperson
- Jeffrey Pruitt, President
- Dave Williams, Vice President
- Dave Fall, Treasurer
- Chris Boggs, Secretary
An article on Wall Street Journal explains how a simple change in a site can cause it go missing from Search engines.This is what happened with Topix.net Chief executive Rich Skrenta. The news site “paid a Canadian company $1 million for the Web address Topix.com in January. Mr. Skrenta intends to switch his site over to the more popular .com Web address from .net soon to help eliminate confusion and increase credibility with consumers.” This simple change has caused this site to disappear from the top search results in Google search.
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