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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 -0000
It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi. Both ate 59 hot [...]
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0000
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art). Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...]
Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 -0000
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...]
Independence Day
Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...]
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses
Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...]
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]

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Itools - Provides search, language and research tools on one page. Includes web, discussion groups, and people search, language identifier, translator, dictionaries, encyclopedia, biography, quotations, and telephone area codes.
Meta Description: [ iTools Internet tools: Search, research, reference, look up or translate just about anything in one place. ]

A9.com - Features results from Google with Alexa details added, plus Amazon book search in a separate column. Additional options - images, movies and reference - can be selected. Users can log in to retain search history and individual preferences. Also offers a toolbar.

Acme Search Forms - Offers access to the major search engines and directories, news, the Internet Movie Database, dictionaries, biography, the Bible, Shakespeare, United States government sites, United States addresses and patents.

All Searches - Possibility to choose between over 100 different search sources arranged in categories. Easy switch from general to regional, reference, or files (images, audio, movies, software, ftp, and pdf).
Meta Description: [ All Searches is an all-In-One internet search tool. It's where the worlds search engines meet. ]

Dan's Web Site - Option to select one of about thirty engines to search with.
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Emm - A configurable tool to query 25+ search engines or databases without retyping your question.
Meta Description: [ www.emm.ie fast access to useful search engines ]

Engines2go - Fast access to the major Internet search sources, without banners, advertising, or pictures.
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Fleiner - Send the same query string to many different Web, images, news, and email search engines with one click.
Meta Description: [ Search multiple search engines simultaneously ]

Freddo'Search Page - A collection of useful searches, including major engines, Roget's thesaurus, Britannica, maps, images, DNS lookup, whois, and Babelfish translator.
Meta Description: [ This page contains several popular search engines forms that everyone may use everywhere. No need to keep in mind all those web addresses, instant access to your favourite searchengines anytime. ]

Geoffrey's Search Center - Gives you centralized, one-click access to more than five dozen search engines, letting you quickly and easily search the Internet.
Meta Description: [ Geoffrey's Search Center ]

GoMonster - A comprehensive site combining the top search engines, useful directories and other Internet favorites.
Meta Description: [ Allows internet web surfers to do a complete web search from most major search engines, auction and news sites from just one site. Also provides top ten listings from each site with just one click. One site, all the byte! ]

HotBot - Offers a search powered by a choice of Google or AskJeeves. There are options to block offensive language, customize search results, and skins.

Know Play - Offers access to popular search engines and meta-tools. Includes people, finance, reference, maps, and local information.
Meta Description: [ Simple and fast access to some of the Web's most useful services ]

Langenberg - Provides access to phone, reference, geographic, business, media and databases search tools.
Meta Description: [ Easy to use direct searches in selected categories with extensive depth and unsurpassed speed. ]

MegaBookSearch - Searches multiple new and used book databases at once. Includes support for Z39.50 libraries.
Meta Description: [ Mega Book Search searches for books on many online booklisting sites. You can compare prices between the listing sites and also sort by author and title. ]

Megosearch - Offering a single starting point to search many search engines. Results display in a new window.
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Meta Web Search - Providing search results from multiple sources and site submission.
Meta Description: [ Meta Web Search is your engine for top search results and free site submission. ]

Multi-search-engine - Select up to 4 engines from a list, and search results will appear in 4 frames in a new window. Also has a selective directory.
Meta Description: [ Search the Web using multiple engines at once for fast results or browse our selective directory. ]

People Search Global - Offering a single interface to help locate people internationally.
Meta Description: [ Free People Search Global Software- International find by phone number, email address name. Poeple Serach online websites AOL, MSN, Yahoo white pages US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia - world. Reverse person serch telephone numbers. Locate military, social security, Canadian e-mail on the WWW. P... ]

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Proteus Search - Type your query and choose one of 30 search engines / directories. Also has an advanced version with more options, but less engines to choose from.
Meta Description: [ Proteus Internet Search Services is an evolving suite of online integrated research tools designed for anyone in need of information. Proteus links you to the best search services and web guides online. With Proteus, you simply Type Once, Search Everywhere. ]

Search Chick - Portal and information site that allows searching through different search engines. Lists search engines by popularity, function and features.
Meta Description: [ This site uses Mambo - the free, open source content management system ]

Search Yooter - Search engine that queries multiple search engines and specific Google data centers. Results are within a framed window.
Meta Description: [ InterActive Marketing, SEO, SEM, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, in the Philadelphia area ]

Search-22 - Directory of Internet sources that provides categorized all-in-one search forms in sets of 22.
Meta Description: [ Directory of top Internet search engines. Allows the direct searching of 22 search engines in each category. Provides links to the best search engine resources available online. ]

SearchEzee - Queries over 200 of the Web search resources, in an easy-to-use interface.
Meta Description: [ SearchEzee Power Search Engine queries over 200 of the top search engines, directories and topical resources, in an easy to use interface. A search tool for research. ]

Soople - Easy search all the advanced functions of Google, plus search in multiple sites at once in popular categories.
Meta Description: [ Easy searching in all the advanced functions of Google. Easy internet ]

SortByDate.com - Single interface to query multiple search engines. Can isolate news, blogs, media, government and reference results.

Surfsearcher - Search forms for major worldwide and UK-specific reference sources, rated and reviewed.
Meta Description: [ An internet based information service for Shopping reviews and Shopping offer comparison. ]

Thumbshots Ranking - Search tool which graphically displays the relative positions of sites in the major engines. Thumbnail preview images appear on mouse-over.
Meta Description: [ Free Web thumbnail preview image. Visualize sites in directory, search engine. View visual screenshot picture link. See snapshot graphics of Web page. ]

TurboScout - Access and compare original results from over 90 search engines across 7 categories on a single web page. The same search can be made on different search engines without retyping keywords.
Meta Description: [ Access and compare original results from over 90 search engines across 7 categories on a single web page, removing the hassle of retyping keywords into different search engines. ]

Twingine - In two separate frames compares results of searching in Google and Yahoo.
Meta Description: [ A twin search engine! Compare search results from two search engines side by side. ]

WebSight Research - Query boxes for dozens of search engines on one page. There are also links to live search results and hot lists to see what searchers are looking for.
Meta Description: [ The Wishing Well Magic Oasis Research ]

Yaweli - Offers access to search engines news, shopping, developer information sites and Hebrew web sites. No images for speed.
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