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July 29th, 2008

Cuil Makes Search Cool Again

Cuil.com brings another search player into town to do battle with the existing sites that we’re all already familiar.
It used to be that Google was the king of simple design and layout but Cuil.com makes Google’s homepage look more like a cramped portal site with more items there to distract you from what you’re […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 26th, 2008

Scour – Search the web and get paid for it

Jake just let me know about a new site called Scour that lets you search the web like you normally would but adds a few different things to the mix:

Get results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN all together
Rate search results instantly
Get rewarded by searching with Scour

Why does it seem to be […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 30th, 2008

Use Dogpile to Bring In Some April Fool’s Humor

Dogpile has a little fun promotion going on right now where you can send a little bit of a humorous spoof e-mail to your friends on April Fool’s Day this year.
As you can see from the graphic above there are a number of different messages and jokes you can send with their tool.
Another nice […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

September 5th, 2006

Squidoo

Have you ever been searching around the internet, or Googling for that little bit of information that you just can’t find the right answer for online? Or maybe you’re really wanting to get the information from someone you’d pretty much qualify as an expert.
Squidoo foots the bill on all counts.
I’ve been using Squidoo for awhile […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 7th, 2006

Roll Your Own Search at Rollyo

Ever wish you could quickly search a specific list of websites for that little bit of information you might need? For instance, what if you could search all the different alumni type sites for the name of the girl that sat next to you in the 3rd grade?
Or, you can’t figure out the little […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments