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Musikki is a new musician directory which combines information from YouTube, Last.fm and more. On a typical Musikki page you can find music vides, tour dates, maps for tour dates, bio, twitter conversations, discography and more.
Musikki seems like a pretty good idea, but it feels like a cheap version of Last.fm at the moment. It needs to be a little more than just a simple music directory / search tool.
If typing “Artist Name” and “Band” into Google is way too much effort for you, it might behoove you to check out Musikki, a search engine especially for bands.Although simple — and still in the beta stage —
Musikki is an odd delight to use: Simply search for a band to surface videos, tweets containing the band’s name, Last.fm events, bio, discography and photos.
Also — and this is probably the coolest part — the service suggests similar or related artists. A search for “Total Slacker” reminded me of the existence of Philip Seymour Hoffman (the band), which I promptly downloaded.
One can also share band search results via Facebook and Twitter.
Again, Musikki is nothing fancy at present, and still appears to have some bugs — a search for “Man Man” delivered The Tallest Man on Earth’s discography — but it’s definitely an amusing way to cruise for music.
Yioop! is an awesome free search engine product. Yioop is open source and its a search engine built with PHP and MySQL.
Yioop has many amazing algorhythms and it can even be set to crawl at any rate or page. Additionally, Yioop can be used in a similar way to Google Custom Search and only run with certain URLs.
A standard setup can crawl and index millions of pages per day and this number can be increased by running more crawlers. Index also supports many files types including HTML, PNG, DOC and more.
Yesterday Google announced the launch of Google+ their social networking project. A lot of people were talking about the slick design of Google+ and that it was developed by an ex-Apple employee. Now, Google has decided to release this design principle across their search engine worldwide!
As you can see from the image everything has been simplified and pastel-ised from a colour point of view. I’m a big fan of the design as it makes everything a lot more appealing to the eye and draws away from the ugly blue links for every entry.
What do you think?
Google is an amazing search engine service, but there are many other options if you would like to use a search engine on your site or computer.
SearchBlox is a great search tool that allows users to search shared drives, feeds and more.
SearchBox amazingly searches your server and can index all of your documents, PDF files and more. SearchBlox is completely open source and is available in 37 languages.
Google has been trying to get their +1 button added to as many places across the web as possible. It seems as though the +1 button will help content creators in search results. Here are some quick options on how to add the +1 button to your site.
1. The Google +1 plugin: This plugin lets your visitors quickly and easily add their Google+1 vote to your posts or site.
Features;
- Allows readers to vote using the cool Google +1 button
- Includes a Google +1 widget
- Provides ability to choose which posts and pages are included
- Includes 4 different button sizes
- Show/hide Google +1 counts
- Customize position of the button
- Shortcodes and styling for further customization
2. Google +1 Button: This is another simple plugin which will add the +1 button to your articles which enables readers to recommend posts.
If you want to manually add the +1 button, you can visit the Google +1 page to customize it.
Microsoft and Bing have just partnered with Rovio and Angry Birds. Bing will have search integration between the game and the search engine.
Angry Birds will also feature search integration with Bing providing over a hundred clues to speed you through the levels and help squash the porcine thieves. Featuring Bing Image Search, Bing Maps, and Bing Shopping, the videos show Angry Birds fans how they can advance in the game, featuring the lovable Angry Birds characters.
For some reason Angry Birds has over 200 millions of minutes played by gamers all across the world. Thus, Microsoft is very happy to get that dedicated user base interacting with Bing in any way shape or form.
Here is an amazing step by step tutorial on how to create your own YouTube search engine. The tutorial is very detailed and pretty anyone can create this search engine.
Click here for the full tutorial.
If I were to ask how many people out there actually used Cuil there’s not doubt I’d hear the sound of crickets. The much maligned search engine the was supposed to be the Google killer had attracted the eyeballs of major tech media outlets only to be the laughing stock of the community. Since it’s launch, the search engine has struggled for it’s fair share of respect, but never quite getting there. We’ve covered Cuil in the past and came to the same conclusion, that Cuil was just not meant for the public and would have been better off staying behind closed doors to either die on the vine, or prepare itself for an actual launch.
It seems that news on this search engine just does not die. Recently reported on TechCrunch, Michael Arrington writes that Cuil is finally closing its doors for good…unofficially at least. According to the report, what few employees that are still with the company have not been paid, which is never a good sign. While they look for green pastures the future for the search engine is almost certain. With its line of successive failures, perhaps now we can finally lay it to rest.
So what say you? Did anyone in the Crenk community ever use Cuil? The few that commented on past articles were not impressed, but if you actually liked it, we’d like to hear why.
Twitter is steadily climbing to reach the 50 million tweets per day mark. This huge social network now represents a large proportion of the information shared on the web. More and more people are discovering breaking news through its trending topics (millions found out about the Haitian earthquake via Twitter).
Now Yahoo! have just signed a deal to be put on what Twitter calls it’s Firehose. This means Tweets will now be continually indexed by Yahoo!.
“Similar to the partnerships we have made with other large internet companies, Yahoo! will receive what has been dubbed “Firehose”—a full feed of public tweets sent to Twitter and our partners every second of every day from all around the world.”
Through this arrangement, you’ll be able to find tweets through Yahoo! Search amongst other Yahoo! services Mail and Sport. It is also said that Yahoo! will be building unique Twitter clients to enable people to tweet from inside the Yahoo! network.
Twitter hit the nail on the head when they discussed how Tweets are vital to the social news scene and their inclusion in other big Internet services is vital:
“Tweets may be short, but they have proven over and over again to contain valuable information. As the Twitter information network grows and expands, it becomes more valuable for everyone who participates. Our open approach helps us get closer to providing universal connectivity to a global network of immediate information.”
Need proof that Google can simply barge into whatever industry they want to and be given the go-ahead? Take one look at how they’ve been given clearance to buy and sell energy having just put in a request to do so a little over a month ago and you’ll see what I mean..
Basically, Google can now buy and sell energy just like any other electricity company in the US. This could involve targeting the commercial market or even residential. As for now though, it appears as though they will be using their new found rights to get some cheap energy for their own use. Running huge servers and data centres uses up a lot of energy so getting it at wholesale prices wouldn’t be bad for business at any rate.
That said, it might not be too long until we have Google bills coming through our letter box as they’re currently toying around with the idea of becoming an ISP too!
