Compfight - I Wish I Could Like You
April 15th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Photography, Search, flickr
April 15th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Photography, Search, flickr
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
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 […]