When I want to view a particular video online, I usually try YouTube since that’s where I’m most likely to find what I’m looking for. However, there are times when the video is not available there and I have to search other sites like Dailymotion, Myspace, Aol, etc. It can be very cumbersome to go [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video, Search Engines

Searching is probably the one activity that every Internet user is doing on a daily basis. It does not really matter if it is a student doing research for his next essay, a housewife looking for new recipes, youngsters looking for the latest music videos on Youtube or the couple looking for a new health [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

With all the new fangled torrent search engines available out there, it’s easy for new users to BitTorrent to get confused. After all, learning how the software works can be hard enough and then having to learn about its different search engines can be even more cumbersome. Welcome to Speckly. The torrent search engine for [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Search Engines, The Web

I recently stumbled upon a very beta Microsoft product called SearchTogether. It will be a collaboration platform in the form of an IE plugin that lets people work together when searching the web. At first glance from the screenshots, it seems to me that it will be a chat-twitter mix, integrated with IE and Live [...]

Categories: Browsing, Search Engines

There is a multitude of torrent search engines out there. Now and then a new one pops up and you head on over to check it out. Pizzatorrent is the latest in a long line of torrent search engines. An initial glance at the site pulls up an interface much like popular search engine Youtorrent [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video, Online Services, Search Engines

If you are from the United States and have been visiting another country lately or if you are from another country and want to access google.com you might have noticed that you are automatically getting redirected to a country code domain of Google. Users from France for instance are redirected to Google.fr automatically.

Categories: Google, Search Engines

Browsing some web 2.0 blogs, I came across a site that boasts a new kind of web search. I quite like the idea since online search is one of the least researched topics from a user experience point of view I think. Yes, Google is doing a lot and refining and tweaking and tuning, but [...]

Categories: Browsing, Online Services, The Web

Wikia Search is the new project by Jimmy Wales who created Wikipedia. Instead of using an algorithmic approach it combines that approach with user feedback to provide everyone with better search results. The theory sounds nice, let users week out the spam and fake websites like Made for Adsense sites and websites with no content.

Categories: Search Engines, The Web

I’m not regularly buying or selling websites but I know the trends, can estimate the value of a website, its future potential and current and future market situation. The following is not really a trick but more of a using information posted on website sales to your advantage.

Categories: The Web