Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid For Writing Search Results

Published at June 13, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Mahalo a recently launched human indexed search engine announced today a new program for part time guides called Mahalo Greenhouse. Guides are the people who create the search results for the Mahalo Search.
Mahalo Greenhouse is a program for people who wants to contribute for Mahalo search by creating search results. These gudes are called PTG’s [...]

Spock: New People Search Engine

Published at June 13, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   15 Comments  

Today i got the beta invitation from Spock to check their search engine. Spock is a silicon valley based startup founded by Jaideep Singh and Jay Bhatti, focussed on people search.
Spock is different from other search engines, it indexes people information from the web. Spock claims that they have already indexed 100 million people. [...]

Ask.com partners with Blinkx for video search

Published at June 6, 2007   Filed Under Video   2 Comments  

Search engine Ask.com partnered with Blinkx.com for video search. Ask.com will use Blinkx search technology on its search results to provide users with 12 million hours of audio and video content. Blinkx has also partnered with other search engines MSN and AOL.
Blinkx claims that it is the largest video search engine and wants to [...]

Mahalo: Human Powered Search

Published at June 1, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   3 Comments  

Mahalo is a new search engine launched yesterday at allthingsD conference. Mahalo is a human powered search engine meaning humans organize the results displayed for search queries. Its staff called “Guides” organize search results for search terms filtering out spam pages and pages not interesting to them.
Mahalo’s search results are displayed as categories, for [...]

Technorati Face Lift: Embracing Social Media

Published at May 23, 2007   Filed Under Blogging   1 Comment  

Technorati has introduced lot of changes to their site, its no more a blog search engine, we can call it as social media search. Technorati CEO Dave Sirfy says now users come to technorati for not only blogs but also to find other social media, in response to these changes in user needs technorati now [...]