Technorati, a blog search engine and advertisement network has  acquired BlogCritics, a 6-year old blog network that draws around 1 million unique monthly visitors. Technorati competes with Google Analytics, Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast in the analytics space, with Google Blog Search, Live.com, Yahoo.com, and Ask.com in the blog search sector and with many advertising companies in online advertising.Technorati plans to integrate BlogCritics into their Media division.

Below is an excerpt from Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra’s blog:

“Blogcritics brings us closer to an open community of bloggers and the audience that follows them. It also gives us a lot more advertising inventory. What’s in it for them? Our combined resources will help that community grow and expose their work to an even wider audience. We’ll also work more closely with Blogcritics authors so they can monetize their own blogs.”

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After testing for four years, Google Suggest, an auto-complete feature for searches will finally be implemented in Google.com. The auto complete feature allows users to see the most-commonly searched phrases and number of search results for each phrase as the users are entering a few letters in Google’s search box. The feature will help users formulate queries easily, reduce spelling errors and save keystrokes.

Google, however is not the pioneer in this service, similar feature is being used by Yahoo and the newly launched search engine Cuil.

For those who can’t wait to see Google Suggest in action, you may CLICK HERE.

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Cuil Inc. a Menlo Park technology company has launched a massive search engine having an index of 120 billion web pages.   Since Google doesn’t disclose the actual size of their index even if they claim that they have an index of about 1 trillion unique web pages, Cuil can be considered as the current most comprehensive search engine on the web.

Cuil (pronounced as “cool”) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis with complete user privacy. The project was founded by husband and wife team Tom Costello (CEO) and Anna Patterson (VP Engineering) and were joined by Russell Power. Patterson and Power are  ex-Google employees.

Click here to visit cuil.

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Last December, I blogged about Google’s Knol, a Wikipedia competitor platform where to read and write articles on all kinds of subject. Google Knol is now open to the public and it is accessible via http://knol.google.com.

Like Wikipedia, Knol is a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. However, Knol uses “moderated collaboration” by default, which will potentially solve issues like vandalism while allowing a broad group of people to contribute to any topic. This means anyone can contribute to a particular topic but contributions can only be seen after the author or authors of the main page allow the contributions to be added.

Having Knol as a service from today’s leading search engine could mean that search results may not only have entries from Wikipedia but with a lot of Knol entries as well. However it is still early to conclude if Wikipedia will become a big loser to knol in the future.

But what if Wikipedia offers ads and moderate their contents too? Hmmn…. that will be a  very interesting move because Wikipedia has been offering tremendous amount of information for years now and it has a lot of viewers and contributors too.

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goosh.org is a very impressive “UNIX-like command-line interface for Google”, definitely for unix and linux geeks like you and mewho are not impressed with fancy UI.

Below is what you’ll see when you go to the website:

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Goosh goosh.org 0.5.0-beta #1 Mon, 23 Jun 08 12:32:53 UTC Google/Ajax

Welcome to goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.
You type commands and the results are shown on this page.

goosh is powered by google.

goosh is written by Stefan Grothkopp grothkopp@gmail.com
it is NOT an official google product!

Enter help or h for a list of commands.

Loading local settings…

guest@goosh.org:/web>

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The website is very useful, there are different types of searches you can do using goosh.org, some of them are listed below:

• “web [search]” - Google
• “images [search]” - Google Images
• “blog [search]” - Google (Blogs)
• “feed [search]” - Google (Feeds)
• “video [search]” - Google Video
• “place [search]” - Google Maps
• “wiki [search]” - Wikipedia
• “lucky [search]” - Redirects to the first result (I’m Feeling Lucky)
• “read [RSS URL]” - Reads an RSS feed
• “addengine” - Adds Goosh to the Firefox search bar

The most interesting part of goosh is that it’s 100% command-line and the results are presented in a very nice format. I believe Google will be very interested in the geeks behind goosh.org.

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Searchme is a new way to search the Web that uses patented visual search and category suggest features to deliver relevant, meaningful results faster, to every kind of Internet user.

The new search engine which is in “Private Beta” stage is more graphical than the other search engines. When you search, you are presented with category tabs as well as a graphical representation of what the resulting pages look like.

“The Searchme visual search engine, which leverages the power and ubiquity of Adobe Flash™ software and Adobe Flex, is an innovative rich Internet application that could help fundamentally change the Internet search experience,” said Chris Rogers, West Region Leader, Adobe Consulting at Adobe. “It’s more than a slick UI; it’s an engaging search experience that emphasizes relevance and usability to help users more easily find what they’re looking for on the Web.”

The search engine is in “private” beta as of posting time and you can sign up for free trial by sending your e-mail address to the company.

This is going to be an interesting search engine to use and if it becomes popular I believe Microsoft and Google will likely acquire the company.

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