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A search engine that’s different : (!) Yureekah

Yureekah is a search engine,specifically built for online media industry.Its technology allows users to know where their competitor is advertising online

Horizontal search engines are quite mature today(highly evolved) but niche search engines are still in the process of evolution.One of those niche search engines is Yureekah. Yureekah is a search engine,specifically built for online media industry.Its patent pending proprietary technology allows users to know where their competitor is advertising online.This service is currently free and allows registered users to archive the campaigns. Before planning your own advertising strategy,it's always preferrable to have a look at your competitors and consequently modify your marketing strategy.But as millions of ads run on countless portals today,this task becomes quite difficult to execute.Yureekah might serve as

ByPrashant SharmaDecember 3, 20080Comments

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MSE360 Review

MSE360 is a search engine that shows search results in a 3 tier layout.This provides blogs,Wikipedia,images and web results on one page Whenever i come across startups building yet another search engine,i don't expect something really exciting as Google has satisfied me(and the majority) to an extent where we don't really bother to even search on Yahoo! or Live for any of our queries.Other search engines are nowhere on the hit list. And i felt quite reluctant when i received a mail from a folk who had built another search engine called MSE360.But one thing that hit me hard was the cost that was involved in building this search engine.Just $1000.I suspect most of this amount was expended on coffee & snacks while developing this search engine..(joking) MSE360 is a search engine that shows search results in a 3 tier layout.This provides blogs,Wikipedia,images and web results on one page.It's surely not going to suit everyone but it might save you sometime specially when it comes to researching a topic.(As you get to have everything on a single page)

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 29, 20080Comments

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90DI Travel makes travel searching ‘Simple & Natural’ !

90di travel search engine makes travel searching easier with natural language search As the holiday season is fast approaching,the Indian travelling freaks(both frequent & occasional) have something to cheer for(as this service addresses one of their core concerns).The service we are talking about is 90DI Travel. Usually,indians have to refer multiple sites for enquiring travel queries related to trains and flights and the user interface of Indianrailways site is not user-friendly at all. 90DI travel brings you all the required information(such as fare) for a journey by train or flight on a single page.It also gives you the seat availability status(very dynamic) of indian trains which is a definite plus to their service(this hasn't been there in other such travel websites). You can view your journey over the indian map(they have integrated mapsofindia API) as well.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 26, 20080Comments

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‘Pustak’ enters the race to become ‘prime online bookstore’ for Indians

Indian online bookstore Pustak that claims to have a database of over 12 million book titles and offers free international shipping to India. There's hardly any online bookstore left which hasn't been overshadowed by Amazon in U.S. and Europe but India is still a massively populated country(accounts for one-sixth of world's population) where Amazon isn't looking much interested at the moment. There's still not a massive business coming out of India to Amazon and many of the books can't even be shipped to India(limited delivery to few countries).This surely creates a space for a startup to fill out this void and aim to serve as an 'Amazon for indians'. That's the one Pustak is trying to become.It's an online bookstore that claims to have a database of over 12 million book titles and offers free international shipping to India. As this startup is based out of bangalore,all the books which are hard to find

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 22, 20080Comments

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WORKetc enters arena of ‘Business management services’

WORKetc is a small business management service that helps a business, its employees to work together more efficiently including tools such as billing, helpdesk, lead management and reporting. In their own words

WORKetc is your total business management solution.And as these tools seamlessly integrate with one another at a single location,you'll quickly benefit from real efficiencies

Here are cluster of features that WORKetc serves you with...

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 14, 20080Comments

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Looking to buy/sell out a car ? Go Pricehub !

Car prices portal Pricehub. PriceHub fulfills the need for a comprehensive,open source of actual selling prices for vehicles. So,you are looking for a new car and hence want to check out the 'actual' price of the car you are planning to buy. You also want to sell out your old car(as it will be hardly of any use afterwards) but want to get rid of 'screwed up deal'. If that's the case then Pricehub will prove quite useful to you.Founded by two car enthusiasts who have collectively bought and sold over 30 vehicles,PriceHub fulfills the need for a comprehensive,open source of actual selling prices for vehicles. There is usually no true source to see what people really paid for a car.Instead, the only available data is the so-called published or estimated price such as the MSRP price,invoice price,Kelly Blue Book price, Edmunds.com price or trade-in value.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 11, 20080Comments

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What startup folks can learn from Alice’s founders

Alice stealth startup at the moment has just announced a $4.3 million financing round,led jointly by private equity angel funds Kegonsa Capital Partners and DaneVest Tech Fund. The founders of Alice,Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire have earlier managed to sell out their three startups(the last one,Jellyfish(social search engine ) to Microsoft) in the past decade and are looking all set with Alice.com As the startup is in stealth mode right now,you will hardly find any information about the service they are going to offer.They have planned for a closed beta release in January and a full public release in March 2009. According to whatever they have written on the site,Alice seems like an online retail service for consumer stuff,focussed on linking household stuff manufacturers like toilet papers & trash bags to end consumers directly.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 11, 20080Comments

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SpeakToMe offers an ‘Unusual’ way to monetize your blog/site traffic

How to earn extra money on internet SpeakToMe. SpeakToMe offers an 'Unusual' way to monetize your blog/site traffic

Most of the bloggers/online experts spend time updating their blogs/sites to someday become eligible for making decent money online through advertisements(be it Google Ads,third party or any other).

But only a sleek percentage of folks actually taste high payout through blogs/sites,that to after long and consistent efforts.One of the major reasons behind this is the the low CPM rates in online advertising.

As the payout is quite low,the blogs/sites need to build high traffic before earning considerable money out of their traction.So,what about those blogs/sites having few thousand uniques(inspite of good expertise/knowledge bank of the blogger) ? Is there any way out for bloggers to earn big with relatively low traffic ?

SpeakToMe has tried to solve this problem.It basically lets you try a new advertising system which does not involve any advertisers.It provides you with a widget complemented with a webcam,chat room,telephony and ecommerce capabilities

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 10, 20080Comments

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Looking to brand ‘Yourself’ ? Try PeopleJar !

Personal branding website PeopleJar. PeopleJar is a user-generated people search and connection tool aiming at connecting people across the globe. The service is proud to present exhaustively customizable robust search features allowing to easily find a person you would like to connect with. The best feature of PeopleJar is that you can create your own search and let the service update you of new members meeting your defined criteria.So,there is no more need to repetitively check Peoplejar for finding appropriate matches,the system will itself alert you about any matches according to your input. In their own words

PeopleJar allows you to create detailed profiles of specific attributes in any field to be found You can also create and save targeted attribute-driven searches to express who you are specifically looking for.

So is it YASN ? (Yet Another Social Network)

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 1, 20080Comments

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Looking for an interactive ‘Virtual Office’ ? Try Geniusroom !

Cheap virtual office-Geniusroom lets you have an easy & interactive interface to manage your clients, projects or relationships.It features live chat,ppt,tele-conferencing & 5GB storage As internet has led to more globalised services than ever,'virtual offices' are also mushrooming to let distant people interact and collaborate in easiest way possible and save out time and infrastructure as well. So,here's a service that serves you with your own virtual office in a unique and interactive way.We're talking about Geniusroom GeniusRoom lets you have an easy & interactive interface to manage your clients, projects or relationships. It features secure chat, powerpoint presentation, and 5GB of free storage to share your documents. Click-to-call teleconferencing is available as a subscription.You can view updates on your mobile phone as well.Their patented telephony software and a streamlined interface makes working online an enriching experience.

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 27, 20080Comments

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