Sundar Kadayam, Cincinnati-based search expert and entrepreneur, has created Zakta.com, a personal and social Web search engine that allows users to edit their search results and build on the results of others.

"One of my biggest frustrations has been that after spending hours searching on the Web, I had nothing to show, reuse or benefit anyone else, including myself in the future," Kadayam says.

"Zakta helps the process of searching for information by letting you edit, save and share your results and then invite your community for feedback and insights." says Founder and CEO Kadayam, who specialized in search technologies, text-mining, social media analysis and networking at former companies that have included Intelliseek Inc. and The Nielsen Company.

Along with the traditional features expected in a web search engine, Zakta provides the following:

1). Fully editable search results. Zakta’s search results are completely editable and under the user's control. A user can delete results that aren’t relevant. Drag-and-drop results to rearrange them, or add tags and annotations to any result.
2). Automatically saved searches. Zakta automatically saves all changes into a user's Zakta account so users benefit from their changes whenever they search again.
3). Tools to gather and save information from everywhere.  Zakta provides tools like the Zakta ClipPad, the Zakta Plugin, and Zakta SearchPacks, to find information anywhere on the web and include it in the user's search process.
4). Easy knowledge sharing. Zakta enables users to share their results in the form of Zakta Guides.
5). Trusted collaboration. Users can invite other people they trust – such as colleagues, friends, or family members – to find information together and use a Zakta Guide as a living, collaborative document.

"Zakta.com is the closest thing to the next big thing in search I’ve seen," says Jason Falls, a top blogger and author of the popular blog at SocialMediaExplorer.com. "There's a ton of relevance and power behind the Zakta idea. My friend's search...

LinkAider.com is a web based tool that's like having a team of linking quality control analysts inspecting your site's linking structure and pages 24/7/365. LinkAider runs from your browser, so there's no need to install software on your computer. You can access your LinkAider reports from anywhere. LinkAider core features include finding broken links, finding crawling and indexing problems, spotting server failures, detection of link spammers, duplicate content/page/title detection and much more. In addition, LinkAider has just released several new features, and is giving away 500 credits each month, enough for a small site. The LinkAider service is crawler on demand, meaning you only buy credits when you need them and you don't pay anything you don't use...read more

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It's a classic sports story: the overpaid, underachieving team drafts a promising rookie and suddenly they start to look like a real threat to the long-time contenders. Software dynasty Microsoft has unveiled its promising rookie search engine. It's named "Bing", and it's touted as being more accurate and user-friendly than current opposition. Although Bing is still barely out of training camp, many search experts are speculating that it might just be enough to bring Microsoft out of third place in the US search standings- ahead of Yahoo, but still behind Google. Never one to miss out on competitive action, BetUS Online Sportsbook is announcing that they will be taking bets on the search engine race. Odds are available on a variety of search-related props. Will Microsoft Bing be in 2nd place for market share by the end of 2009? Will Google acquire Yahoo? Which of the big three will be the first out of the gate with a real answer to Twitter’s popular real-time search? Sports betting fans and search enthusiasts can place their bets on any of these and more. Here are the odds as of June 11th 2009:

Will Bing surpass Yahoo for 2nd overall in the US search market on December 31st?
Bing 2nd on December 31st 6/5
Yahoo 2nd on December 31st 5/9

Will Yahoo be bought by December 31st 2009?
Microsoft 3/2
Google 3/1
Neither 1/3

First to offer real-time search?
Google 1/4
Yahoo! 9/2
Bing 3/2

Will Bing rank 1st in Google's search results for "search engine"?
Yes 10/1

Those looking for the inside scoop on how to read the betting odds, where to wager, and where to get the latest search engine stats should have a look at the Bing vs Yahoo article in the BetUS Locker Room. Let the search engine games...click to read more

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JUMBO Keyword offers the following features:

• 70+ 1-click AdWords, keyword, find & replace, and text functions in one user interface
• Edit hundreds, even thousands, of keywords in seconds
• Web-based application - no download or installation required
• 100% free - no sign up or credit card required

TV Guide, who provides the web's only video search engine for professionally produced video content, is now offering advanced video search functionality via their Online Video Guide. TV Guide's video search engine includes movie trailers, complete TV show episodes, news clips, previews and programs across all genres and networks. Using the new advanced video search capabilities, you can search professionally produced video by genre, network, date, clip, full episode and more. For example, using the advanced video search for the phrase "American Idol", and limiting the search just to network and cable news sources, the results bring back a manageable and useful set of 48 video matches. Try a similar search at a general search engine where you can't limit searches by genre, network, or quality, and you'd have to scan through millions of off-topic results. Also offering the ability to browse by category, celebrity, program and popularity, TV Guide's Online Video Guide and search engine is a fast, simple way to search for professional entertainment video online.

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GrepSite is an Internet Search Assistant, helping you to locate the information relatively fast and easily. In contrast to search engines, GrepSite empowers the user to "Smart" search the information on carefully selected list of sites that are most relevant to the search criteria. When you search for some thing special, a Home, a Car or a Job, more Choice you have, the better Chance of finding the perfect match. However, visiting multiple specialized sites, and providing search criteria at each of those sites, is quite difficult and time consuming. GrepSite.com not only short lists you the sites where you can find what you are looking for, it also provides your browser enough information to find them within each of those sites, automatically. So you can spend more time and effort on deciding what you want rather than spending time looking for what you want. GrepSite is constantly researching and refining the appropriate sites for each search categories, so you do not have to do that or to wonder what else is out there. (More...)
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[October 2005] GaDa.be was developed by Chris Pirillo, founder of Lockergnome and former TechTV host. Developer Shayne Sweeney is the technical brains behind Gada.be. Said Pirillo, "Gada.be was borne out of several frustrations. If you've ever tried to visit a Web site over a mobile device, you know it's a pain in the knuckle. The domain had to be simple to key-in from anywhere. gada.be is 4232.2233 on most cell phones and PSPs. Normally, when you want to find something online, you have to choose a Web site (wait for the page to load) enter the query (wait for the second page to load) then see results from that provider. Then, there's having to visit several sites just to get the results you want. Often, this isn't feasible when you're on-the-go. Even when you're sitting with a laptop or chained to a desktop, it's still a time-consuming process. With "gada.be," you insert the query term as the subdomain, like this http://world-series.gada.be, and your results are ready to go."

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Upstart search engine BigClique.com continues to show its mettle against the big search players with the announcement today of the BigClique.com Toolbar. While toolbars have become commonplace and nearly all major search engines offer them, BigClique's toolbar breaks new ground with the inclusion of several features that no other toolbar offers.

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