A P2P Search Engine

Faroo is a P2P Search Engine which seems to be gathering quite a lot of traction. It builds its index based on the actual pages that its users visit while surfing on the Internet.

After using it for a while in searching, the results are not half bad. And you also have the option of using secondary search engines to populate your results in case what you are looking for is not present in the Faroo Index.

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June 18th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Icon Search Engine

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Have you ever searched for icons on Google Image search? Had any luck? No? Thought so. Google is not so good at searching for icon files. You might want to change the look of your desktop by replacing those drab icon files that got installed by default when you installed your applications (that image on the left is my icon for the photos folder on my computer). Or you might be looking for an icon for that new application that you just developed. This is where IconLook comes in.

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May 28th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Do you like to collect domains?

domainsThere are a lot of people who like to buy domains - either because they think that collecting some good ones may reap rewards in the future, or they are looking for a good name for the new blog or site they are going to launch. Well, if you, for any reason, are looking to buy a domain name and don’t know where to start, your job just got a whole lot easier. Here are some very nice services which help in domain name search, availability, and registration.

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May 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments

A competitor for Google Blog Search and Technorati

Technorati has been around forever it seems. It used to be my go-to place for searching blogs. Then Google Blog Search came and I started searching for blogs using Google (or more accurately, searching for topics inside blogs).

This trend was also seen in my WordPress Admin Dashboard which now uses Google Blog Search to show incoming links to my blog. There have of course been a large number of other blog search services through this time. Recently, however, there is a new contender which has been making ripples. It’s called Twingly.

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April 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments

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