New search engine is Cool?

A new search engine debut recently named Cuil (www.cuil.com) but pronounced cool. The search engine was created by some former Google employees and features 3 column layout and some results break downs by categories.

















Read more about SearchEngineland review: http://searchengineland.com/080728-000100.php

Library + Search Engine

Inside Indiana U's Move to ChaCha
University to bolster research with guided search functionality
8/8/2007
By Linda L Briggs

"Indiana University's alliance with search firm ChaCha, announced last week, may portend how universities, librarians, and Internet search engines will work together in the future. The arrangement points up how librarians or other experts can add huge value to scholarly searches through so-called "guided searches" by stepping in to offer access to vast amounts of material--and expertise--that conventional search engines don't touch."

http://campustechnology.com/articles/49582/

New and not so new Search Engines to try

1. Kosmix: http://www.kosmix.com/index
includes tabs for basic reading, advanced reading, news, blogs and forums with search terms, articles cluster and more.

2. Quintura-See & Find: http://www.quintura.com/
Includes cloud of results

3. Mahalo: http://www.mahalo.com/Main_Page
"world's first human-powered search engine"

4. Exalead: http://www.mahalo.com/Main_Page
includes a thumnail of the webpage in results

Google search goes Universal

directly from Google's blog:

"Over several years, with the help of more than 100 people, we've built the infrastructure, search algorithms, and presentation mechanisms to provide what we see as just the first step in the evolution toward universal search. Today, we're making that first step available on google.com by launching the new architecture and using it to blend content from Images, Maps, Books, Video, and News into our web results."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/
universal-search-best-answer-is-still.html

More on Online Videos: Searching

Here is post about some search engines which specialize in finding videos:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/01/25/
video_search_engines_and_online.htm

1.) PureVideo
2.) SearchVideo
3.) Sigining Fish
4.) SearchforVideo
5.) Yahoo! Video
6.) Blinkx
7.) AltaVista Video
8.) TubeSurf
9.) AOL Video
10.) brightcove...and the list goes on...

Looking for pics?

Try the new image search engine which is a mash-up for the photo-sharing site, Flickr.

http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

2 new search engines: hakia and Ms. Dewey

"hakia is building the Web's new "meaning-based" search engine with the sole purpose of improving search relevancy and interactivity, pushing the current boundaries of Web search. The benefits to the end user are search efficiency, richness of information, and time savings."

Take a test run: http://www.hakia.com/ watch for tabs that give meaning in the results (search hakia)

Or you can try a search engine with a flashy flash interface...she even talks to you...http://www.msdewey.com/.