April 15th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Photography, Search, flickr
When I first went to the web site at compfight I wasn’t impressed. I don’t what the deal is, but in Firefox, it looked like I had actually accessed the mobilized version instead of the real web site. The text is so small, it’s practically unreadable!
But then I saw Martin’s review of compfight […]
February 24th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Facebook, IM, Search, Web 2.0, YouTube
In case your social networks aren’t already overloaded with a bunch of people you don’t know, you can now locate a bunch of other unsuspecting victims to send your friend requests to using a site called Buddy Fetch. With this service, you can enter in a keyword, hobby, or interest into the search box […]
February 6th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Search
A commenter on my FilesTube post pointed me to another similar service called FileField so I decided to check it out. The site is also a search engine designed to search files that are shared in various file-sharing and uploading sites. Their spiders crawl these sites and accumulate the info they find in a […]
February 6th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Search
RedZee is a company trying to reinvent search through their creation of a visual search engine. The interface is pretty simple - you type in a search term, then flip through the results using your mouse. The results are screenshots of various websites, although not dynamic ones that are kept up-to-date. Pull up any […]
February 4th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Gimado is yet another music search engine, somewhat like SeeqPod. The Gimado engine crawls the web in search of MP3 files and when you do a query, it will return results for songs that you can either play or download. Like many other music web search sites, a result doesn’t necessary mean the content […]
January 16th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Songbeat is a new desktop client application that allows you to search the internet for mp3s, stream them, and even download them to your computer. With Songbeat uses SeeqPod technology, which is a specialized search engine that finds any playable search results including video, slideshows, audio, interactive presentations, Adobe Flash demonstrations, animated graphics, […]
January 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Mp3Realm is a search engine just for mp3’s. You can search for songs by artist, title, genre, or album and you can filter out results by file duration, so you don’t end up with a clip when you were looking for the whole song. The site also indexes lyrics, so you can not only […]
December 30th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Mashups, Music, Search
Songbird is a free media player and web browser mashup developed by the folks who previously engineered both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine. Both a media player and a platform, Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has a UI that looks very similar to that of the popular iTunes application. Like […]
December 6th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search, Video, Web/Tech
FilesTube is a speciality search engine that scours many different file sharing and uploading sites like RapidShare and MegaUpload. The FilesTube search spider records the recent uploads to these sites in a database which you can then search from the FilesTube search box. Doing search on FilesTube website will provide you with a links […]
November 19th, 2007 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Search
Surprisingly, I heard about Songza on Uncov, the blog of dissing everything web 2.0. For it to actually get a rave review over there, I decided it was worth checking out. Unlike peer-to-peer (P2P) or BitTorrent services, Songza users can’t (illegally) download songs, only listen to them online, internet radio-style. But where Songza differs from […]
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