Searchme , the visual search engine has recently launched two new features - Stacks and media search. Stacks enables users to intuitively save search results and make them shareable. The results can be mailed, added to blogs or added to FaceBook, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon or MySpace. Creating stacks of results is easy. Just drag the search result page to the top left and the page is added to the stack. I tried it on FireFox 3.0 and it really worked great.

Careerjet , a job search engine celebrating its 8th birthday has many great accomplishments to its credit. First, the engine supports 56 country specific sites in over 20 languages. Second, it has launched public APIs and innovative affiliate programs for both online and offline partners. The crawlers of the engine use semantic analysis to index job related information from over 58,000 sites on a daily basis.

After writing about SurfCanyon , I came across another search engine that brings a good focus to improving the user interface to search as well as adding a few nifty features. As mentioned by David Stat, the co-founder of ManagedQ )source: Venture Beat ( Stat points out that the basic search interface hasn't evolved since Google's early days, and that users still have to enter their queries into a "DOS-style command line.

Google may have its advantages over Microsoft when it comes to online advertising. But over to mapping services and we can see that both Google and Microsoft are fast aiming to get ready an array of services that will drive the navigational web. Today, most of the queries on search engines are informational with a minor percentage being transactional and navigational . With a flurry of internet ready mobile devices waiting to enter the market, things are going to change.

SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful when you want to make sense of a topic and there's a deluge of content from the web to choose from. Now, SenseBot has provided a FireFox plug-in that integrates with Google search as well as provides summary for any web page.

Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for quite some time, at the same time adding more features to FyberSearch. Here are a few questions that Nathan took the time to answer for SEJ. 1. How is your advertising technology, services and tools different from that offered by other search engines )major(?

Search Canyon deploys technology that helps disambiguate search queries, essentially assisting the user to dig deeper into results, suggesting links that makes a better match to results the user seeks recommendations on. The approach is unique in the sense that it makes search an ever continuing process where the machine assists user through a continuous feedback loop. The engine integrates well with Google, Yahoo and MSN Live results. Mark Cramer,

Algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence - the list is endless in the quest for the perfect technique to make computers do what humans are capable of. Now, a search engine does away with the machine completely. GGoal is a total human powered engine, no machines, all organic. An excerpt from the About page : Ggoal is a search engine "based on" human intelligence, created by users and for users,

Few days back there was an article at SEJ on Relona , a search technology start-up which used unique technology to add more relevance to results from major search engines like Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com. Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Technology Officer at Relona graciously answered a few questions on Relona and search via e-mail. 1. Can you provide us some information on the roots of Relona and how you got started on the idea?

David Kirkpatrick, senior editor at Fortune Magazine has written a great article summarizing some technology statistics that have come out as result of the 2008 Global Internet Snapshot compiled by Imran Khan, senior analyst for Internet, media and entertainment at JP Morgan. An excerpt from the article : But for cell phones it's a different story. Here the United States is a laggard, with 77.4 subscribers per 100 people.

The trend today is about 'socialnetworking-zing' everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other individuals and share content online. I think it was only time that genomics also got on the bandwagon - a reason why the latest announcement from 23andme is not much of a surprise. An excerpt from Technology Review Avey and Wojcicki hope that, as with traditional forms of social networking,

Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that accrue from the imperfection of search engines. Firstly, there is this new skill that one gets to hone in identifying and getting to the answers one seeks from a whole pile of content. Then there is the obvious market for search optimization since in the perfect search world, the engine makes out the relevance of the article,

Many have pointed out that the success of Google is as much its relevance algorithm as its simple clutter free approach to the user interface. Now, a search company is working on the interface front to provide a refreshing approach to presentation of search results . The iTunes 'Coverflow' inspired view at Searchme lets you browse through the snapshot of pages that are returned from search. I found this similar to the 3D browser approach in SpaceTime.

FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a pure search perspective and also has entered a few specialized niche search areas along the way. Some of the very interesting features tried out at the engine are the sentence searching concept. The engine has its own crawler and database and does image search and feeds search as well.

With the rapid rise in video and audio content online, there is an immediate need for search technologies that can catalog and search media content based on content in addition to the meta-data provided alongside. Pluggd is one such firm that is seeking to provide the answer with its HeatMap interface that makes it possible for users to move to segments within video that mentions keywords they are looking for.

Recently Bill Slawski from SEO By the Sea wrote on a patent application filed by Yahoo on Techniques for Searching future events . It brings forth a new dimension to consider in making search more timely and relevant to users. The patent is on making search engines acknowledge the temporal information in articles. This implies interpreting the word usages that refer to chronological information and classifying articles on the basis of the timeline that the content deals with.

The founders of this social-networking, social bookmarking site with people powered categorization of content hoped to provide a topic centric approach rather than a people centric approach to content on the web. At CrowdFound , users get to categorize article on the web into predefined categories and sub-categories. While the features have lot of similarity with the social bookmarking sites,

Engines which work on top of search engines has been a growing area ever since Web Search went mainstream. Most meta-search engines use content from the top engines - Google, Yahoo or Live Search and many also refer to content specific sources such as Flickr, PicSearch for image search. Infact, DogPile was one of the first search engines to offer keyword targeted advertising, via keyword targeted banners; before Yahoo Search Marketing )Goto.com( or Google AdWords existed.