I love finding anything that includes a combination of: simple + free + music. Mix Turtle, welcome to my life.
Here is a very simple idea that works very well… a search engine that looks for songs you want and lets you listen to them for free. Not sure how the mechanics work or if it’s even legal (not that I really care) but the simple interface, coupled with a little bit of AJAX love, provides a very nice user experience. Oh, and it’s pretty damn fast.
Nowadays, more and more vertical search engines are popping to life as a movement to provide more targeted and relevant search results than the traditional search goliaths. In the same spirit, Google has developed the Custom Search Engine platform (launched in 2006) that allows users to create their own ‘tailored’ search engine which continues to build momentum as Google adds new features (ie the recent integration with Adsense)
So how does it work? Building your search engine is easy and goes something like this…
1. Give your search engine a name and specify some of the keywords you want to target
2. Select what sites you want to search
3. Customize it and host the search box on your own website
Some enterprises are already taking advantage of Google’s Custom Search API. For example, the guys at Green Maven have built a green search engine using Google CSE to help their audience search for [...]
Recently there’s been some buzz about Mahalo (something about rolling out microformats) so I decided to take a closer look at this site and I am, for the most part, impressed.
Mahalo is basically a new breed of search engine wiki-based search directory that relies on humans to power it. The idea is that users provide and submit links which should provide better search results by filtering out a lot of the spammy, irrelevant content that are indexed by the traditional search engines.
What I like most about it is that search results are presented in a very organized, intuitive way along with a lot of great complimentary information. All of this with a very usable and clean UI and very few paid ads to detract you from the results.
For example, I recently did a search for boston celtics and received a page segmented into relevant information and vital stats [...]
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