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Portals and engines for searching the web are among the most interesting developments that we can come across. All eyes are on them, and when a new one materializes it never goes unheeded mainly because everybody is looking for “the new big thing”, and they are even partial to focus a lot of attention on the search capabilities of services like Twitter – that is, something that is not really a search engine to begin with but that plays out the role to the hilt if it wants to.

And now we have a new search engine to put through its paces. Named Zakta, it makes the process of searching for information easier by letting people manually edit and save their results, and then share them with their friends and colleagues. In this way, feedback and insight from the community can be obtained. The search result themselves are shared in what are termed “Zakta Guides” in the site’s parlance – collaborative documents that benefit from the live input that is provided.

The search process itself is a flexible and logical one, as results are split into categories, and related topics and subtopics are provided all the time to enrich the experience of the user. Besides, a set of tools that go by names such as Zakta ClipPad and Zakta SearchPacks are featured for the user to expand Zakta’s search capabilities. Of course, Zakta can be added to your browser’s toolbar effortlessly and searches be launched whenever you wish that way.

Mapping is a huge and growing sector, from social maps for sharing with friends, to mashing up Google Maps in every possible way. Trawling through all the mapping sites out there, we’ve compiled a list of the most interesting online mapping tools that some are referring to as “Maps 2.0″.

Customizable And Collaborative Maps

Click2Map.com - Create custom Google Maps, manage your markers, publish and share your creations.
ClustrMaps.com - Get a visual representation of all the visitors to your website.
Geotag it - Add geo tags to Flickr and Del.icio.us posts and see where other links and photos come from.
MapBuilder.net - Uses Google Maps to help you build a custom tagged map you can add to your own website.
Mapicurious.com - Mark vacation spots, restaurants, bars, just about any place you would recommend.
Mappr.com - Another site allowing you to geo tag your Flickr photos to allow people to see them on a map.
Maptales.com - Tales of trips and more sorted on to a Google Map.
Maptrot.com - Create maps of interesting locales such as Route 66 or major sports stadiums, share them with the world.
Mkmap.com - Collaborative map that allows users to add things such as transit services and restaurants.
OpenStreetMap.org - A user editable map of the world to be worked on in collaboration.
Pixagogo.com - Add your own photos to a Google Map, give people a real feel for your neighborhood or vacation.
Planiglobe.com - Customize a map and download PostScript and Illustrator versions.
Quikmaps.com - Doodle on a Google Map, pass it around, embed in your site, or download it to your GPS.
Tagmaps - A way to visualize text on geographic maps, then can be used on your site.
Traffic.com - Check out traffic for your area on a map.
Trippermap.com - Tag your Flickr photos with a location; they get added to a flash based map for your website.
Useamap.com - Helps you publish a map for your event, provides a short url for easy use.
Wayfaring.com - Create and share maps, explore ones made by others.
Wayki.com - Tag locations and share with others, explore tags others have left.
YourGMap.com - Customizable and embeddable Google Maps with content you choose.



Transit Mapping

goDCgo.com - Look up Washington DC-specific information such as traffic, special events and car pooling.
IamCaltrain.com - Interactive map of the San Francisco metro area trains.
onNYturf.com - Interactive subway map of New York City.
Seattle Bus Monster - Plan your bus routes in the Seattle, WA area.



Subject Specific Mapping

DaylightMap.com - See where the sun is shining currently on this map.
Feedmap.net - Add a geo-code to your blog so people can look blogs up by location. You can also browse for areas that would interest you.
FlightAware.com - See how many planes are currently in the air and where they are.
Gruvr.com - Place to look up local music and add tour info.
HealthMap.org - A global disease outbreak map. For general interest or to suggest places you may wish to avoid.
Hotpotr.com - Map of Wi-Fi cafes and hotspots.
Incident1.com - Interactive map of 911 calls from around the United States.
Mailboxmap.com - Enter an address, get the locations of USPS mailboxes nearby.
Map-Runner.com - You can create a run route and assign a difficulty rating and a safety rating; it will be available to all runners using map runner, and they can rate it.
MAPLight.org - Shows geographical connections between congressional voting and money donations.
MapMyRun.com - Plot out your running course, indicate where water and bathrooms are, calculate your workout. They also have MapMyHike.com, MapMyRide.com, MapMyTri.com, and MapMyWalk.com.
MappyHour.com - Click anywhere on the map to display nearby bars and their happy hour specials.
MapWii.com - Enter your Wii number and see other players online to setup games all from a geographic map.
Moremap.com - Uses Google Maps as a basis to show earthquake activity, traffic reports, radio stations, and numerous other functions.
Platial.com - Add content from video, photos, stories, feeds and add it to your website.
PublicRoutes.com - A global map of mass-transit systems.
SignalMap.com - Find or add your own reports on cell strength to various locations and by carrier.
Tornado Paths - Visual history of tornado paths on a map.
VirtualVideoMap.com - Shows a Google Map with YouTube videos sorted by locations.



Popular Mapping Services

Ask.com Maps - Ask.com’s driving directions solution.
Google Mars - Google’s interactive map of the fourth planet of our solar system, Mars.
Google Maps - Get directions, look up your house with satellite photos. The basis of many websites.
Mapquest.com - Look up local businesses, get driving directions.
Poly9 FreeEarth - A free, online interactive 3D globe with various layers you can apply.
Windows Live Local - Microsoft’s entrant in to the mapping game.
Worldmapper - Maps of the world resized based on various subjects such as land mass and population.
Yahoo! Local Maps - Get driving directions, find businesses and much more.

If you're looking for more search engine customization, then building your own search engine is something you'll want to look into. Here are five different services that offer you the ability to personalize your own seaarch engine, customized to your unique preferences.

1. Topicle
Topicle is simple to get started with; just click on "Create Engine", name your search engine, add a few of your favorite sites to search within, and you're all set. More sites can be added later as you find them. Topicle also offers you the option of searching in other Topicle user-created search engines, as well as voting up or down URL's that you approve of.

2. Eurekster Swicki
The Swicki has been around for a while now and offers searchers many options when creating their own customized search engine, including the option to choose multimedia content, customize the look and feel of your Swicki, and more.

3. Rollyo
Rollyo offers you the ability to search through the content of any websites you want, and since the sites are ones you already know and trust, the results will (hopefully) more relevant and informative for you.

4. Google Custom Search Engine
With Google's Custom Search engine, you've got a lot of options. You can include as many (or as few) web sites in your search engine as you want, you can host your search engine on your own site or blog, and you can search through other people's custom search engines (check it out at Google Custom Search Engines).

5. Live Search Macros
Live Search Macros is from Microsoft, and is a great simple way to get started on your own search engine. You'll go through a simple creation wizard to help you make your first search engine, and it only takes a few seconds to create. One caveat: you''ll need to have a MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, or Passport account to finish the process.

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Searching for drink recipes – whether they’re alcoholic drink recipes or otherwise is very simple. Just navigate to the Drink swap, and if you know what the base ingredient of your proposed concoction is, just type it in to the main search query bar.

Drink Swap is a drink recipe search engine. Drink Swap focuses on are alcoholic drink recipes, mixed drink recipes, holiday drinks, and a ton more fun drink recipe stuff it’s a great way to look up drink recipes quickly and easily.

DrinkSwap.com opened on March 23rd, 2005 with over 25,000 drinks, 2000 ingredients, and more!

The founders wanted a place entertainers could use to find drink recipes quickly and easily as well as cross-referencing drinks with ingredients to create a unique experience for the users.DrinkSwap.com is located in Redmond, Washington.



Why Should I Use Drink Swap.

Drink Swap is a great place to find drink recipes fast and easily. I would love to see more features and depth added to Drink Swap in the future (it's still in beta at the time of this writing), such as a community message board where members could trade drink recipes, product reviews, and a way to bookmark drink recipes and store them on the site itself.

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CitySquares was founded in 2005 based on the simple premise that finding local, neighborhood businesses online is really hard and very frustrating. Furthermore, small businesses are being challenged every day to keep up with the Jones’. Until recently, they had very little chance to compete with national advertisers for consumer attention. So, CitySquares provides small, independent businesses an opportunity to reach a qualified, local consumer audience through a search engine optimized profile on it’s highly trafficked, consumer-facing website. CitySquares provides its content to users in a hyper-local context, that is, neighborhoods and other relevant localities.

Local businesses are able to take full advantage our search engine optimized information architecture and fully customize and personalize their CitySquares.com advertising campaigns through enhanced business profiles, display advertising, Constant Contact email newsletters, merchant videos from TurnHere, and more. All of this is provided to the customer without complex variable pricing.

CitySquares is a privately-funded company with its headquarters in the South End neighborhood of Boston, MA. The company is led by an experienced team and funded by investors who share our vision. Our investments have been lead by eCoast Angel Network, with participation from outside investors including Jonathan Kraft, President of the Kraft Group, and Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Chairman of HDNet, among others. These individuals bring their specialized expertise to help us develop the business and improve your CitySquares experience.

Incidentally, this is a fantastic example of a brand listening to the conversation about them online. Not only did CitySquares engage in the conversation, they made a change to their product that benefits everyone.

Yahoo is both a search engine and a directory. By submitting your site to Yahoo's human-edited directory, you may have a better chance of being found by purely spider-driven engines (such as Google). It's best to figure out exactly where your site or content may fit in the Yahoo structure before submitting willy-nilly to anything that has the word "submit" in it. Expect a "reasonable delay" when using any of these site submission options.

There are eight submission options with Yahoo; I'm going to briefly go over them one by one:

- free site submission
- free mobile site submission
- free media content submission
- Yahoo search index submission
- sponsored search
- product submission
- travel submission
- Yahoo directory submit
- Yahoo standard submission

Navigate to the CompletePlanet.com home page, and you'll see the standard search query bar right in the middle of the page. Below that, you have a wide variety of topics from which to choose - this is a good place to start if you have a really good idea of where your particular search query is headed. Let's look at both options and see what happens.

My search for clouds using the standard search bar returned 187 "related databases." Your CompletePlanet results are a bit different than searching for the word "clouds" in a less focused search portal; instead of your search results page being full of links to a whole bunch of Web sites, CompletePlanet uses its technology called Deep Query Manager instead to search databases. Your results, therefore, are made up of various Deep Web databases.

My search for clouds using the topic database worked a bit differently. I chose the topic science in order to initially narrow down my search, then I decided to explore Meterology. At this point, CompletePlanet only returned one result for my intial search query of clouds, but it was a pretty good one - it turned out to be the Australian government's Greenhouse and Climate change page. I think that for me, I prefer narrowing down my topic from the get-go in CompletePlanet, since I felt the results were more targeted and relevant; however, I believe that it's completely your own personal preference.

At the bottom of every search result, you'll see little colored squares indicated how relevant your result is to your original search query; the highest score is four squares, so the more squares, the better. Next to that you'll see the size of that particular file and the date it was "harvested", rather, when CompletePlanet spidered that page.

CompletePlanet Advanced Search

CompletePlanet Advanced Search is pretty standard; you get the option to search by title, keyword, description, date, etc. I would also highly recommend that you take a quick look at CompletePlanet Search Help - it's a great introduction to what you can really do with CompletePlanet.

Why Should I Use CompletePlanet?

First of all, it's extremely easy to use, and even more simple to narrow down searches without a lot of complicated search syntax or search operators. Secondly, CompletePlanet is searching the Invisible Web; so your results overall are of a higher standard (since they are in academic, government, military, etc. databases) than if you searched for the same item in a general search engine. Thirdly, I really like how CompletePlanet's list of topics is right on the front page - it makes it easy to narrow down or broaden your search; plus, I just enjoy seeing what's out there in topics I wouldn't ordinarily be searching within. I highly recommend CompletePlanet as a great tool with which to search the Deep Web.

Search engine is gateway to explore world of internet. Simply by typing a particular keywordm search engine will display a series of websites that referred. Along diversity of content on the internet, and also more detailed needs of users, search engines began to specify his search for a specific type of content.

Like many other Web sites, Icon Look makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Website Icon Look, for example, is a special search engine to find icon file on the internet. As with other search engines, on the main page of this website is available to form a type keyword, and a button to execute a search. The difference with most search engines other lies in search results.

When most search engines display the series web page URL, the website only displays an appropriate icon series with a keyword. More unique, you can directly download the file from this website. For specific searches, you can find determine icon size 12 x 12, 16 x 16, 22 x 22, 32 x 32, 48 x 48, 64 x 64, and 128 x 128 pixels.

There is one keyword for business success at virtual world: gather many people as possible to access your website. No wonder, if many website pop offer their service for free to get a lot of users.

But you know that most website to accessible and most probably also need, since last decade is search engine. Requirements of search engine appeared because the size of growth at content on internet is big.

Naturally, that’s all to encourage search engines to grow into binis multimiliar dollars. Search Engine Land comes with many actual information about current developments in the world. Here you can read news and opinions about marketing, industry search engine, and so issues about searching at this websearch.

Search Engine land is led by journalist Danny Sulliva, who has been covering search for the past 11 years. It is published by Third Door Media, which also produce the Search Marketing Expo conferen series and the Search Marketing Now webcast events.