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Alt Search Engines

The most wonderful search engines you've never seen!

Source: U Rank’s Frequently Asked Questions about U Rank

1. How do I rerank results?
Click on the “move me” link and drag a result up or down to rerank.

2. How do I add a new result to a search?
Click “Add to these results”
Then drag and drop what you want over…
Or, if you’ve already found a search result you like and you want to move it to a different search, click “copy me” and type in the search you want to move the result to:

3. What is being shared?
Changes you make to your search results while sharing will be visible to your friends. These changes include friends include moves, deletions, new results, and notes.

Any changes you make to your search results while not sharing will be hidden from your friends. These changes will stay hidden from your friends even when you turn sharing back on. Of course, any changes that you’ve already shared will remain visible to your friends.

4. How do I control what is being shared?
You can turn sharing on or off through the sharing controls right next to the search box.

You can also go to your history page to see your search edits, and share, hide, or delete them.

5. Are there any formatting controls for notes?
You can *bold* text using asterisks; yo

Turkish search engine Attabot in beta testingYesterday

Attabot brings together the facilities of Web 2.0 and the functions of search engines, while bringing together services such as e-mail accounts and online dictionaries from the Turkish Language Council and Redhouse.

“We take care of the design, code writing and test periods by ourselves. We work collectively both in the United States and Istanbul,” Seyfi Erol, the founding partner of the portal told TDN.

The users can choose words that describe them on the internet after creating free account, Erol said. “Under the titles Air, Earth, and water, you can choose the words that describe you and your social life, your likes and career and, in the words of the Attabot team, you create your own world, your virtual self.”

In English:

Attabot – A New Approach to Search

While other search engines are busy refining their algorithms for better search results, Attabot brings in a unique way to make use of the “search” function.

Attabot creates a digital profile for users and connects people who make the same query. Searching on Attabot finds real people rather than finding only websites with other search engines. When you think about what you search for on search engines everyday, it is quite interesting to find not only websites as the sea

A Search Engine for Your Memory! InfoaxeYesterday

Infoaxe is a Search Engine for your Web Memory. With infoaxe, every page that you see on the Web gets added to your Personal Web Memory and is now searchable. No more manual bookmarking! Check out our intro video to get started with infoaxe!

If you have a strong background in Web Programming, Large Scale Systems Engineering and breathe Software Engineering best practices please do send us your resume at jobs@infoaxe.com for the chance to join an early stage startup about to revolutionize Search and Information access on the Web. Source: infoaxe

Watch the introductory video here:

Innovation: How to search for your usernameYesterday

Jon Sykes explains his username search tool:

I thought you might be interested in a little pet project I launched a couple of weeks back, Usernamecheck.com. It’s a site that allows you to enter a username and it checks 40+ of the big or new social networking / web 2.0 sites and informs you whether that username is taken or available.

Initially I built the site so that people could have a way to see where they are and where they aren’t and give them the chance to pick up their usernames to prevent them being signed up by someone who might ruin their online credibility.

But based on the blog posts and twitter posts I’ve been seeing it seems people have been coming up with some very imaginative uses.

Hope you like the site, we’ve had over a 100,000 unique visitors since launch and have a Alexa ranking that is currently better than pownce, brightkite and jaiku (although I never really understood alexa). But it’s been nice to see people enjoying the service.

TigerLogic announces public debut of ChunkIt!Yesterday

TigerLogic today announced the public availability of ChunkIt!, a new free search tool designed to help people find better information faster on the Web.

ChunkIt! instantly searches for and retrieves the valuable information hidden behind the hyperlinks contained on any Web page, saving users valuable time lost from clicking on lame and irrelevant links. ChunkIt! is available for Firefox (PC and Mac) and Internet Explorer browsers.

ChunkIt! provides users with a one click solution that quickly and easily enhances the search results from any Web site or search engine, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live Search, AOL and Ask. ChunkIt! searches for the relevant “chunks” of information hidden behind the links and extracts them with the keywords highlighted, so users can efficiently find the information they want without clicking through endless links and opening multiple windows.

“Despite improved search algorithms, people spend lots of time clicking on link after link, hoping to find the needle in the haystack. ChunkIt! solves this problem by analyzing and extracting the information you are looking for, eliminating the time wasted clicking on lame links,” said Carlton Baab, CEO of TigerLogic. ”ChunkIt! not only enhances search engine results, it searches and retrieves information behind any link on any Web page, whether you are shopping on Amazon for a digital camera with specific zoom features or whether you are a student conducting research on sites like LexisNexis.”