Blinkx.com
Blinkx
blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. blinkx pioneered video search on the Internet, developing an engine based on technology that was conceived at Cambridge University, enhanced by $150M in R&D over 12 years, and is now protected by 111 patents.
Unlike other multimedia search engines that attempt to re-purpose technology built for the Text Web, blinkx uses a unique combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition and video analysis software to efficiently, automatically and accurately find and qualify online video. Today, blinkx is the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the Web, delivering more content from a broader range of sources than either Google or Yahoo!
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Quintura.com – See & Find. Quintura is a brand new visual search engine that offers an interactive tag cloud for easy navigation and search.
Quintura proudly presents the first VISUAL search engine for the youngest web users.
Quintura search engine works the way people search and advances web search beyond keyword search into a visual context-based search using data clustering, …
www.quintura.com/download/
Quintura helps to find kids-related information on the Web easily and interactively.
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People search engine Spock, which we’ve been covering for a few months, has publicly launched.
Spock differs from differs from recently launched WikiYou and other people search engines by using algorithms to find and merge the majority of their content into a unified profile. User generated content such (tags, links, photos) then augment the auto-generated content they spider from other sources such as wikipedia, IMDB, or social networking sites.
Website Address : www.spock.com
A key Spock feature is a widget that shows results for a given tag (see embed below). Making the service public makes the widget a lot more useful. You can use it to make any number of lists around a how Spock ranks search terms. See, for example, the results for blogger and tech blogger.
Spock is certainly fun, and encourages user interaction by adding and voting on descriptive tags. It could easily become a definitive source of information about people. It will, however, likely take a massive number of page views to properly monetize the product – people searches do not generate the kind of advertising rates that ecommerce and other searches command.
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Schmedley Search
it searches from various sources – and each channel is different.
In some cases the source of the data is obvious as we will generally show the name and/or logo of the website where the information is coming from. Our Internet Search channel and our Airfare channel are good examples of this. Knowing the source of the data in these cases it what gives the results credibility and value – i.e. Google Internet Search Results or Expedia Airfare pricing results.
In other cases we may decide that it isn’t necessary to advertise the source. This is the case with our Stocks and Weather channels. Recent stock prices and current weather conditions are good examples of data that is publicly available from a ton of different sources that will always be the same, so no “branding” is really required.
Website Address : Schmedley.com
In true “mashup” style, many schmedley channels actually gather bits of information from various sources and organize them into our one simple interface. This is another way our results have value over other sites as we are grabbing stuff from different places and giving the user new and interesting ways to view and/or manipulate that information. schmedley even becomes a content creator in some instances, providing valuable data that isn’t available anywhere else.
