· September 15, 2008 at 5:01 am · Online Tools
There isn’t much more you can do to re-invent the search engine that others haven’t tried before in the past. What you can do is improve on ideas that are already out there. You have all seen the pages that search multiple search engines at once, and they all pretty much suck. Well, I have finally found one that does it right - and Search!o is its name-o.
The front page is pretty slick, you have the search box, the “go” box (to get your search started) and then you can pick from a number of search engine groups such as: audio/music, blogs, books, css galleries, fonts, images, jobs, news, search engines, social bookmarks, videos and more. Each group will search a different series of web sites. Doing your basic “search engines” search will give you results from Google, Live Search, Ask, AOL, Dogpile, Clusty, Alta Vista, Lycos, and All the Web. Each source has it’s own tab inside of the web site, so navigation is as easy as clicking the tab or the Alt + a number combination.
The address it gives to you is the last feature I want to share with you. Look at this: http://search.io/search-engines/web hosting show/
The address is based on the search group type I used (”search-engines”) and then my phrase I searched for (”web hosting show”). Only thing that lack that I would like to see is an easy way to add them to the search box via the browser. Play with Search!o today, and let me know your thoughts on it.
· October 11, 2006 at 5:40 am · Hot Web Topics
I saw a “My Networks” link on top of FeedBurner that I had never seen before. Silly me, I just had to click it! This was the message sent my way via the tubes.
We can’t say, but since you landed here, we applaud your curiosity! You are one of a select group of FeedBurner publishers who can now create and discover other FeedBurner Networks. Networks is our new service (still in beta) that helps subscribers, other publishers and even advertisers more easily discover your great content.
This looks like a really interesting idea. I like the idea of bringing feeds and media together in little hubs for people to subscribe to. You can go join a network that is already in place, or you can go and create your own.
So what is to be gained by joining one of these networks?
Every participating publisher has an equal opportunity to appear on a network “landing page” that is comprised of the most recent headlines from the collective group (view an sample landing page). We encourage publishers to brand their network with a descriptive and compelling name and even include a logo.
FeedBurner provides a number of promotional tools to help participants get the word out including a network badge, chicklet and FeedBurner’s popular BuzzBoost service. In addition, publishers who are invited to join a network will also have the opportunity to submit their feed to FeedBurner’s growing advertising network, FAN.
Check out more details on this at FeedBurner.com’s Web site.
· July 28, 2006 at 11:13 am · Online Tools
I got this E-mail yesterday from Severine at Ziki.com. I have to say it is at least an interesting way of marketing your new product, that is for sure. I’m also excited that I have become popular enough that somebody wants to buy Adwords on searches for my name in Google.
Hope you’re doing fine. I’m contacting you regarding your Ziki as I’ve got some good news 
We selected it for our special “Adwords offer”.
To help you control what people find when they search your name on Google, we’ve bought your name and last name to run an adwords campaign, and get your Ziki listed at the top of Google Search results.
So whenever anyone searches for your name online, they’ll see your Ziki profile first, created by you, and not a third party site containing potentially wrong information. Your Ziki gives your full picture at a glance, with information you’ve chosen to highlight, so we think it’s best if people find your Ziki when looking for you!
+ Read what I had to say about Ziki.com in April!
