Spezify is a really cool search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.

it takes multimedia web search towards a more intuitive experience.


try to spezify a good overview of a keyword.
example: http://www.spezify.com/#/webmove

Labels: flash, mashup, search, web_2.0

minervity.com has published a nice set of search engines for web-design relevant resources; eg.: logo design, icons, tutorials, fonts, typography...

source: 18 Search Engines For Designers - Creativity Boost

Labels: design, inspiration, search, tip

As part of the Bing Launch, Microsoft has rebranded Live Search Maps to Bing Maps and Virtual Earth to Bing Maps for Enterprise. As Chris Pendleton, former writer of “Virtual Earth, an Evangelist’s Blog” and now writer of the Bing Maps Blog, explains, the rebranding entails a bit more than just a name change...

[via blog.programmableweb/]

Labels: mashup, search

Twitter analytics within your Google Analytics account

Chartbeat is a real-time web site analytics provider. It’s a new and very slick service that provides a rich set of real-time analytics

The difference between Google Analytics and Chartbeat is in some ways similar to the difference between Google Search and Twitter Search. Google Search is unparalleled at searching the archive and can deliver huge amounts of relevant information. What it can’t do and what Twitter Search is so good at is searching the now. When a plane lands in the Hudson or Mumbai suffers a terrorist attack, Twitter search is far more useful than Google search. [via blog.chartbeat]

Read more about Announcing the chartbeat-Google Analytics mashup competition

Labels: e-business, google, mashup, search, utilities, web_apps

Second Searchology Event = More Search Options :)

your results can be filtered by different types (web pages, images, videos, books, etc.) to find what you need faster and easier without searching for the right query at first.
even when real-time search is still a problem, google has just launched this new feature on its main search page.

Official Google Blog: More Search Options and other updates from our Searchology event

Labels: google, search

MatterMeter is a service from Conversition Stategies, where you can share opinions on what really matters or not...its a kind of microblogging web tool with demographic questions, where we can together playable inform us about important things...

first look and impression about teh tool is very awesome...
and perhaps some day the content, which we are producing, imho, is possible to become more and more demographical significant quality for search engines in our future :)

-> have a own look at this funny tool: http://www.mattermeter.com :)

Labels: community, fun, mashup, microblogging, search, sharing, social_software

I'm quite impressed with feedmil, a search engine to find microblogs that are related to your interest.

search for a variety of feed types including news, blogs, microblogs, social media feeds, audiocasts, photocasts, and videocasts

url: feedmil.com

Labels: fun, microblogging, search, web_2.0

As we can read from marshall kirkpatrick on rww, yahoo has improved their image preview page with major changes to make it a lot easier to use.
the new interface displays a larger view of the image, more search results, and popular related searches. nice :)

link: new yahoo image search service

Labels: photo, search, web_2.0