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Sputnik: Simplifying Search for the Best Online Tools and Applications

Sputnik is a website that aims to deliver you the best of the web in the simplest manner possible. It defines itself as the first Online System. It is a system that organizes and selects the best online tools and application while delivering them to you in very few clicks possible.

The free service divides the selected applications into the most popular categories. The system’s search tool allows you to make fast and targeted search. You’ll be able to take advantage of 50 search engines divided into different categories (between the other web, images, videos, music, download, encyclopedias, maps, etc). The results that Sputnik provides are the results that are provided by the best search engines available on the web.

Listed are the rest of Sputnik’s features

Communication: connects you to the most popular e-mail providers, Instant Messaging services, social networks, SMS, fax… all for free.

Music: listen to 24 hours/24h music, watch live concerts in streaming… and all the best music services in one click.

Movies: offers a list of movies (divided by genre) which can be viewed in streaming (that means without need to download).

TV: provides a selection of free online TV channels.

News: allows to read the daily news and to access to the best national and international newpapers online.

Games: allows to play games online, also in real time with other users.

Language Tools: provides translating services, dictionaries, language lessons and applications which allow other user, in the dialogue with the selected language.

Apps: allows the access to the best online applications without need to download (from text elaboration to the photo editing from the file transfer to SMS sending…)

All the services found in Sputnik are completely free and does not require you to download. All you need is your browser and you can enjoy free online tools and applications.

Tags: Online System, search, search tool, search-engine, Sputnik

Kngine: Understanding the Meaning Behind Search

Kngine is a new semantic search engine and Question Answer Engine rolled into one to provide meaningful search results. Its aim is to give smart information by understanding the meaning behind a search query. There are a lot of words and expressions that have multiple-meanings. What Kngine is trying to do is discover such words and provide meaningful information about the referred concepts. It figures out what you’re actually looking for and return search results that it entirely related to your question or query.

Kngine can understand queries like: ‘Brad Bitt Movies, Microsoft Companies Acquired, Football Players, Movies, Museums, Walter Gropius works, Authors’ and provide list of concepts with photos. You can do comparisons between two or many things by simply using ordinary keyword combinations. For example, you can just search in a natural way like “iPhone 3G vs iPhone 3GS” or “Ukraine GDP vs Romania GDP.”

There are many search challenges that Kngine wants to address. Aside from being a semantic search engine, Kngine also wants to provide its users with answers to questions and not only provide search results that contain the keywords stated in a particular question query.

Kngine can’t answer any questions, but I work to enhance this ability by improve the question understanding algorithms, and collect and organize more systematic knowledge and experiences.

Kngine Features

• Perception words have multiple-meanings.

• Smart Information.

• Concept List (List of things).

• Answer your questions.

• Comparisons.

• Update Information (Weather, Stock, Currency Price, and Sport Matches Results).

• Link the data, and view direct data.

Tags: Kngine, search-engine, Semantic

Goby: Travel and Adventure Search Engine

Goby is a search tool that is focused on giving you precise results by providing it with simple What Where When information. It will help you explore fun things that you can do on your free time, from taking a unique vacation to creating a weekend adventure.

The goal is to help solve frustrations involved in planning free-time activities while providing a superior search experience for those in need of travel information.

Our goal is to stop the madness and eliminate the need to hop around to multiple Web sites and sort through information that’s often incomplete and/or irrelevant or hard to find.

How to use:

You will be provided with three drop down boxes. Simply click the dropdowns and tell Goby “What” you want to do, the location of your activity/vacation (where) and the time you want to do it (when). The “What” dropdown lets you select from a category of activities – from food and drinks to sightseeing and tours. The Where dropdown displays a map that you can use to pinpoint the location where you want to do the activity you chose on the What dropdown. Lastly, you can place a date or select from a pre listed time on when you want to do your activity.

On the results page, you’ll see several activities that are appropriately ranked which are based on your initial input. There is also a map with a marker that you can move around on different location. Every time you move the marker, the results page will also change and give you activity recommendations that you can do near the location where you placed the marker.

Watch the Video demo.

Goby is a new and interesting way to search the web for travel and adventure activities. You can use the site to plan your next vacation with less stress. The site currently supports cities from the United States and will hopefully support other countries as well becoming a global Travel tool that everyone will surely find very useful.

Tags: Adventure Search, Adventures, Goby, search-engine, Travel, Travel Search

FindThatFile: A File Search Engine

FindThatFile has a mission – to provide the most comprehensive file search on the internet encompassing Web, FTP, Usenet, Metalink, P2P resources including 43 file types and more than 347 file extensions including 83 file upload services such as RapidShare.

The search engine tries to search as deeply as possible in order to identify relevant file types. It uses search algorithms that index properties, Meta data, extracts and more.

You can use Find That File to search for Audio, Video, Bittorrent, Compressed Files, Documents, Fonts, Installable Software (Linux, Mac,Windows) and System Components such as DLL or OCX files. You can also filter your search by just ticking and selecting the file type that you are looking for.

There are several file search engine that is available out there but most of them are only focused on certain file types. If you are looking for a file search engine with a broader coverage, try out Find That File.

Check out the Demo video of Find That File below.

Tags: File Search Engine, FindThatFile, Search Files, search-engine

Bliipa: Social Search and Traditional Search Side-By-Side

Social media sites have been producing a large part of the content on the internet. The only problem is that most content produced by social media sites do not appear on search engines. It’s either that or search engines like Google and Yahoo are having a hard time keeping up with the updates made by popular social media sites.

Blippa is a search solution that combines traditional search from search and real-time social search. Instead of mixing the search results from a search engine with results from social media sites, the application prefers to display them side by side. On the left side of the results page, you’ll see the results from different social media sites and social networking sites. The middle part of the page displays the traditional search results.

The search engine is powered by Yahoo for the traditional search. The real time social search results are powered by Boss, Twitter, Technorati, FriendFeed, YouTube and Digg. There are quite a number of alternative search engines that you can test and check out. Blippa is one of those search engines who believes that they can make search a better experience for everyone by combining social search, which is the trend nowadays, with traditional search.

Tags: Bliipa, search-engine, Social Search, Traditional Search

CrowdEye: A Real-Time Social Search Engine

With the popularity of social media sites and the power of real time data sharing, it is no to surprise that search engines will evolve to do real time searches. Crowdeye is one of those new generations of search engine that takes advantage of the power of social media networks which Twitter in this case. If Google is not enough, try a real time search.

Real Time…Social..Search… That’s what those of us at CrowdEye are obsessed with. The internet has been evolving for years into a place where information flows quicker and quicker. Now it is becoming increasingly possible to tap into that stream of bits and bytes and use it to draw conclusions and make informed decisions based on the “wisdom of the crowds”.

Crowdeye tracks Twitter discussions and has created innovative technology to scan tweets, retweets, twitter links and more. The aim to provide you with powerful yet easy ways to slice, dice summarize and categorize the data to answer your questions and help you find what you are looking for.

The search engine’s priority is the most recent 72 hours of data which is believed to be the most actionable and interesting. You can expect to get fresh data from Crowdeye as they are shared and become popular on the Twitterverse.

Tags: Real-Time Search, search-engine, Social Search, twitter, Twitter Search