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BackType.com - A Search Engine for Comment(er)s

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http://www.backtype.com

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AOS

BackType is a site that allows you to search for comments made by different people on blogs across the net.

This is a rather interesting search engine and one that can come in useful for discovering new web sites and blogs by following someone who has similar interests as you.

In addition to following people, BackType also provides a search capability for finding information within comments themselves.  This is just as powerful (though not as interesting) as the people search capability, as many search engines do not index comments. More »

Blinkx.com - The Web’s Most Comprehensive Video Search

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http://www.blinkx.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

Blinkx.com is the web’s most comprehensive video search engine with over 26 Million hours of video, delivered from over 350 media partners.

Blinkx is unique in the video search genre and is differentiated by it’s indexing technology. Instead of using technology developed for text based web search, Blinkx uses a patented technology originally developed by Cambridge University.

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Rowdii.com - An Easy To Use Search Engine with Social Commentary

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http://www.rowdii.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

Rowdii.com is a new search engine with social commentary and linking capabilities.  By creating an account, users can comment and discuss the result with other users, as well as link sites together.

While the social commentary on search results is nothing new (See our review of Scour.com), the site does present some interesting features and a new take on search results. I’ll walk you through a few of my findings below of this very clean little search engine. More »

Addictomatic.com - A Topic Aggregation Site with Search Capabilities

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http://www.addictomatic.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

Addictomatic is a topic aggregation site similar to Alltop.com or popurls.com in that it aggregates all the best content on the web into one location.  The main difference between Addict-o-matic and the other aggregation sites, is it’s focus on search and personalization.

While Addictomatic.com does provide you with a few canned or popular topics on it’s homepage, the real strength of this little application comes from it’s search capabilities.  Even though it doesn’t perform the search results as I expected, it’s still a nice addition to the genre.  Read further for a review of my experience and check out the site to decide for yourself. More »

Saturday Search Roundup - 8/31/2008 - 9/06/2008

Every Week we recap the sites and browser plugins we’ve reviewed throughout the week… just in case you missed one. If you would like to follow along and get updated when we add a new review and plugin, Subscribe to our RSS Feed.

Good week of interesting alternative search engines.  The highlight of this week would have to be Scour.com.  Sites that combine different major search engines into one are a dime-a-dozen, however Scour has taken it to a new dimension.

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Scour.com - Search Results with Social Input

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http://www.scour.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

Scour.com is a new take on the social search engine Genre.  While most “social” search engines rely on group or growd input for finding results. However Scour uses major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, then allows it’s users to vote on results and provide comments as well.

On top of being a rather well thought out and useful search engine, Scour also “pays you to search”.  Essentially, if you sign up for an account with them, you earn points for every time you search. These points are then redeamable by means of a Scour branded Visa gift card.  This is an interesting concept, but one that’s been done before.  However, Scour is a useful search engine by itself… so you might as well get paid while you do it. More »

SamePoint.com - An Actual Conversational Search Engine

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http://www.samepoint.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

SamePoint.com is a conversational search engine that connects and tracks the same conversation from multiple sources.  Essentially the application indexes social media sites like blogs, lifecasting applications, and social gathering sites to find conversations that connect them all together.

While the concept and functionality of this site are truly unique and provides a lot of promise, I have to say the execution and design needs a lot of work. However, if you’re looking for an actual conversation engine and not just another forum search, give this one a look. More »

Blogs.com - A New Blog Search Engine By Six Apart.

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http://www.blogs.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

Blogs.com is a new blog search engine by Six Apart… the makers of the popular hosted blog service TypePad.

The site doesn’t offer much new in the sense of search capabilities (besides a very easy to remember name), but it does provide some interesting editorial articles about the blogging community and spotlight blogs you can browse through. More »

Yoozila.com - A Clean Alternative Search Engine

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http://www.yoozila.com

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Alexa | Whois

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AOS

Yoozila.com is an alternative search engine with a clean and easy to use interface.  The actual search results are nothing new and pretty straight forward, but what does separate this site from others is it’s interface.  As Yoozila puts states it; “Why shouldn’t search results look nice?”.  And of course, why shouldn’t they?

As I mentioned above, the real strength of this web site is in it’s interface.  The results page includes many unique features and makes extensive use of AJAX and in-page features that allow you to better view your results.  Since this is pretty much all about the interface… the following paragraphs will pick it apart in detail and highlight some of the unique features. More »

PleaseDress.me - A t-shirt Search Engine (?)

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http://pleasedress.me

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AOS

Ok, so it’s been a few days since I’ve posted, but keeping in the spirit of the Labor Day Holiday here in the states, I decided to take the day off.  It’s now 12:09am on Tuesday, so technically it’s no longer Monday.

But, I’m still a little sunburned and a little exhausted from chasing the kids around the park all day, so I’m going to keep this one short and sweet with a review and browser search plugin for a t-shirt search engine…. yes, you heard me right a t-shirt search Engine!

Let me introduce you to PleaseDress.me… a small t-shirt search engine and side project from Gary Vaynerchuck of Wine Library TV.  PleaseDress.me (cudos on the name by the way) is a very simple search engine with a singular purpose… finding t-shirts. More »