Search Engine Journal

FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a pure search perspective and also has entered a few specialized niche search areas along the way.
Some of the very interesting features tried out at the engine are the sentence searching […]

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With the rapid rise in video and audio content online, there is an immediate need for search technologies that can catalog and search media content based on content in addition to the meta-data provided alongside.
Pluggd is one such firm that is seeking to provide the answer with its HeatMap interface that makes it possible […]

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Recently Bill Slawski from SEO By the Sea wrote on a patent application filed by Yahoo on Techniques for Searching future events. It brings forth a new dimension to consider in making search more timely and relevant to users.
The patent is on making search engines acknowledge the temporal information in articles. This implies interpreting the […]

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The founders of this social-networking, social bookmarking site with people powered categorization of content hoped to provide a topic centric approach rather than a people centric approach to content on the web.
At CrowdFound, users get to categorize article on the web into predefined categories and sub-categories. While the features have lot of similarity with the […]

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Pixsy, a media search platform that was once named in the Top 50 coolest websites of 2006 by Time magazine, uses innovative visually focussed search processes to extract images from RSS feeds and blogs so that contextually relevant up to date pictures obtained. The engine has been focussed on a licensing model where web sites […]

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Searchles ( pronounced “Circles”) is a complete Social Search engine founded by John Hopkins University graduate Chris Seline. The site is focussed on creation of a social network + search site where the user has control on how much the community can affect the search results.
The engine focuses on letting users leverage other people’s point […]

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Gameseekr is a search engine tailored for games which are accessible and playable on the internet. It also supports a social model that enables users to share and create communities that further enhance a vertical that does require a dedicated engine of its own.
How Gameseekr Works
The engine maintains its own database of content obtained by […]

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RSS and blog search engine BlogDigger provides services such as media search, link search and grouping of blog results. Media search pertains to RSS feeds on media types such as mp3, WindowsMedia, QuickTime etc. Link search provides information on sites that back link to a particular website, tracking the train of linkages among blog posts.
The […]

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The Web experienced a roller-coaster ride in 2007 with Social Networking emerging as the happening area. More and more user activity moving to the clouds was another phenomena. But it was also the year which raised serious questions on security around web applications and web services.
Issues galore
Just a couple weeks back Carsten Cumbrowski mentioned […]

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If the title of the post appeared too technical, then my apologies. I wanted to convey in a nutshell that FuzzFind, the meta-social-search mashup combines results from search engines and social bookmarking sites on an equal footing (an achievement for social bookmarking I must say). The approach should fetch relevant results since social bookmarking is […]

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