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Let me Google That For You

Do you get tired of people bugging you with questions that can easily be answered by a quick visit to Google? If you are, give them a Let Me Google That For You link. The service seems like a normal Google search aggregator. What it actually does is create an automated action of how you cunningly maneuvered Google to get your answers.

It will rerun the action that you performed starting from the keyword(s) that you used to search to find the result that you are looking for to the part that Google displays search results. It will create a link for you that you can share with friends. Once clicked, the search action will start to play.

The service is actually a cool way of telling/teaching your friends or family members how to properly use the search engine. It’s actually a bit funny way of telling them “Why don’t you just try searching Google for your answers.” You can check out the link that I’ve created below.

LetMeGoogleThatForYou How to Find Chuck Norris.

Tags: Google, letmegooglethatforyou, search

Monetize Your Search Box With PredictAd

PredictAd is a simple tool that you can add on your site’s search box which will generate an auto-complete feature. Aside from providing a cool tool for your search boxes, PredictAd is really an advertising service rather than a search service. It will enhance your site’s searchbar while allowing advertisements to display while performing the auto complete. This will provide a non-intrusive advertising campaign. The goal is to have the user focus on the area where the ad is being placed, in this case, your search box. When the user starts typing a search query, an auto complete box will appear and assist him/her. Alongside the auto complete results, ads that are relevant to what the visitor is typing will also be displayed. This way, you can create additional revenue and offer your visitors a pleasant and helpful feature at the same time.

The service offers a ready-go-plugins for blog templates such as WordPress, TypePad or Blogger which makes integration a walk in the park. For other templates, a JavaScript version is also available.

Another feature of PredictAd is the SEO service that they are offering for site owners whose insights are drawn from the service’s analytics backend which means you can see reports on what keywords are users using to search your box. You can also take advantage of the PredictAd’s extra feature that allows you to integrate a number of sister sites in a single search box.

Tags: box, enhance, monetize, predictad, search, SEO

Quintura Keyword Cloud Search Widget For Your Blogs

Quintura just released a really cool widget that makes it easier to search your website or blogs. The widget comes with the assistance of a keyword cloud that will display tags within the website of your choice.

If you own a blog/website you can sign up for the free service and make a submission of your URL and/or RSS feed to Quintura. Your site and RSS feed will be indexed and you can start creating and customizing your widget. This will enable users to do a more effective search in your websites/blogs through the use of tags plus the search bar. The widget also comes with the embed feature so that other site owners can embed your tag cloud in their own sites.

The widget/service is quite new and still has room for improvement when it comes to effectively searching and displaying keywords in the cloud. Nonetheless, this is a neat feature that you can add to your sites to give your users easier access to old posts. I have provided a sample of the widget below.

Tags: Blog, Embed, keyword, quintura, search, tag

Scientology: A Dangerous Cult, Says Google

I found this while Stumblingupon yesterday and had a good laugh when I saw this pop up on my next stumble. It seemed that Scientology is ranking first on Google for the keywords “dangerous cult.” It’s funny to think that they are advertising on different forms of media and using big Hollywood stars just to gain supporters for their religion only to find their website ranking first in the world’s most widely used search engine with keywords “dangerous cult.”

I think this is a result of Google Bombing (also known as link bombing or search bombing). It is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way that Google’s algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text (dangerous cult). A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner. This means that the “dangerous cult” keyword(s) is a result of a successful Google Bomb.

Tags: bomb, cult, dangerous, Google, link, scientology, search

YouTorrent: Offers Real Time Torrent Search

If you are looking for a rather rare file, YouTorrent can help you by returning results by number of seeds from other torrent sites. BitTorrent search engines aren’t new, there are quite a few sites offering this kind of service like Torrentz, TorrentScan and Scrapetorrent. All these sites gives good results in BitTorrent searches.

What is different about YouTorrent is its ability to scan other torrent sites for torrent files in real time, and gives fast results. Another great thing about the site is it is (STILL) Ad free and doesn’t turn your BitTorrent hunt into a popup nightmare. Until a better site comes along, this is by far the best place to start your BitTorrent searches.

Tags: bittorrent, search, search-engine, torrent, youtorrent