Scour, a meta search engine owned by ABCSearch.com (now called Advertise.com – neither of which I am a huge fan of) recently added in real-time search results within their search results. What is interesting by their approach is that these real-time results are mixed within the standard results. Why does this matter? Well, it is really where search should have been going all along and it took a second tier meta search engine to make it happen. What we have now are a lot of traditional search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask and a lot of real- time search engines like Collecta, Scoopler, Twazzup, OneRiot, Topsy and countless others being added almost on a daily basis, but no one has really effectively brought the two together. While I like Scour as a meta search engine (as I like DogPile also) I really like everything else they are doing and trying to become a serious player in the search world. They are offering an incentive program to use their search engine (pre-paid Visa cards), they promote and offer feedback and reviews on sites within results from other users and now they have real-time results mixed in with the standard results.

I think it is a great move and wish them luck. Remember you do not need to be a big player in the search space to make money. As we all saw in the AltSearchEngines study and previous post (Why Do Small Search Engines Exist?), that even 1% of the global search engine market share can produce 3 billion in revenue and tremendous profits.

Here is a link for more information – Scour Now Offers Real-Time Results
You can check out the search engine here – Scour Search Engine

SortFix is an interesting search engine that allows you to hone your search results by moving ‘Power Keywords’ between ‘Add to Search’ and ‘Remove’ boxes (just drag and drop – very easy and intuitive).

While not utilizing it’s own database of results, it does allow you to sort and organize results from Google, Yahoo and (amazingly enough) the DMOZ.

Here is the information about the search engine from the site:

ABOUT US:

SortFix is a young and innovative search technology company, devoted to enrich your search experience. We’ve created an intuitive graphical interface that isn’t only cool and fun to use but also boosts your search skills and abilities.

Our initial interest in search technology began as a basic user, and just like you, we where frustrated by our inability to find needed information quickly and efficiently.

Sure, finding facts on a popular band or the newest mp3 player is easy, but trying to find an answer to a more complex question is usually not so simple.

We often couldn’t find exactly what we looked for, or gave-up in the middle. Not only that, when we thought that the search was going to be too complicated, we didn’t even try to look it up.

So how do we turn a complicated problem into a child’s play?

We’ve developed a system that does all the hard work and leaves you only the easy part. Behind the scene an intelligent algorithm imitates a professional searcher – by scanning and examining the results, it reveals the significant keywords and terms that will help you to define a better question. Then comes the best part, by using SortFix’s unique interface you can play with the suggested keywords, and create your ownindividual and precise query, and when you ask a precise question you usually get the right answer.

The amount of information is ever growing, and efficient searching tools are a necessity like never before. We are here to provide it.

We are constantly working to improve our services, implementing new ideas and adding additional features to our advance users.

There is much more to come, ongoing ideas and improvements are processed on a daily basis. Stay with us, write feedbacks and together we will find the answer.

Check it out today at – SortFix Search Engine
(also check out the cool instruction animation on the homepage)

My favorite web directory is at it again with a special and not well known promo code for July 2009. This code is for 15% off any of their services – web directory listing submissions (my favorite), local listing submissions, blog listing submissions, advertising, etc., etc. All the details are below:

Code: CLICKZ15

Link: Best of the Web Discount Link (use code on checkout)

Good luck and happy submitting!

EntireWeb search engine is offering their Express Inclusion package again for only $19 per year. They claim 100 million searches within their network of partners per month, while that may be high there is still value in this small investment as this package does provide guaranteed indexing in:

* EntireWeb
* ExactSeek
* IXQuick
* Web Ferret
* Mamma
* and hundreds of other small (very small) search engines/web directories

Check it out today at – EntireWeb Express Inclusion

Found a great little website resources that provides some consolidated services in addition to providing the basics on a website from an SEO perspective including:
* Meta Info
* Meta Title
* Meta Description
* Meta Keywords
* Index Data
* Backlinks Data
* Google PageRank

eSiteStats also provides a great resources for consolidated website ranking reporting (no more visiting each ranking website) including:
* Alexa Ranking
* Compete Ranking
* Quantcast Ranking
* eSiteStats Ranking (a new proprietary ranking system)

And then to top it off, eSiteStats provides a website valuation (probably one of the most accurate I have seen) and the ability to drop a widget on your website showing your eSiteStats Ranking and/or eSiteStats Valuation.

Check it out today at – eSiteStats

Description from the website:

Your all-purpose Web collection engine.

With OutWit Hub you can find, grab and organize all kinds of data and media from online sources. Automatically explore series of Web pages or search engine results to extract contacts, links, images, data, news, etc.

But, with a little finese and some fine instruction from Marketing2oh you can easily use this tool to scrape search result data for your SEO projects and put all that data neatly in an Excel file. There article, “How to Scrape a Search Engine Results Page for Your SEO Project” is one of the best tutorials I have seen in awhile.

Check it out today and get started scraping your own data at – OutWit Hub

Well, if you believe a recent a research study into why there are so many search start-ups which says that a search engine with only 1% market share is worth up to $3 billion dollars a year you quickly understand.

The study details and additional information were posted on AltSearchEngines.com. The name of the study was, “New Competitive Dynamics of Search” created by C.H. “Chandra” who is the Co-Founder and CEO, Yauba New Media.

It is a very interesting read for those that are interested in search and the marketplace.

Check out the study here – New Competitive Dynamics of Search

Check out C.H.”Chandra”‘s real-time search engine here – Yauba (billed as, “The World’s First Privacy Safe, Real-Time Search Engine)