Circos Helps Consumers Search for the Good Life -itsReal

Circos Helps Consumers Search for the Good Life

Concierge-like search engine connects consumers with premium lifestyle experiences

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PRLog (Press Release) – Sep, 2008 – Today Circos relaunched its search engine Circos.com, helping consumers find personalized, premium lifestyle experiences online. By tapping into the collective knowledge of people across the Internet, Circos condenses user-generated content into meaningful tips about hotels, restaurants, and other relevant brands. The updated site is live at http://www.circos.com.

There are millions of insights and shared experiences distributed across the Web in individual communities, blogs, and forums, but it’s nearly impossible for a high-end consumer to locate the right insights and tips for their personal needs. Conventional Internet search relies on site statistics and popularity, leaving many answers buried under layers of irrelevant Web pages or worse, overlooked altogether……

……The new Circos.com features multiple ways to find the perfect hotel or restaurant. A concierge-like guided search experience at http://www.circos.com/guided_search/ walks you through your search with a simple three-step process. Circos’ “search by personality”

feature connects you with the previous experiences of others just like you. This means self-professed hipsters find the edgiest urban hotel, while high-end diva foodies are shown exclusive restaurants with the most attentive staff and service.  APLINK Note: WOW…

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Circos Helps Consumers Search for the Good Life.

Interexpat Singapore launches ExpatFinder.com

Interexpat launches new website for expatriate information services with powerful search engine and social community capabilities: ExpatFinder.com

ExpatFinder.com addresses the increased demand for information and services for global on the move professionals and their families.

Singapore August 21, 2008. Interexpat Pte. Ltd., a Singapore headquartered Internet services company (www.interexpat.com) today launched new information services combining social community capabilities with a powerful global search engine: ExpatFinder.com. The new service aptly called ExpatFinder is the first vertical search engine for people intending to relocate or already living abroad.

ExpatFinder.com addresses the increased demand for information and services by relocating professionals and their families. The website acts as a channel to guide expatriates or pre-expatriates about to make the move, to the most relevant information and websites both locally and globally.

Featuring a simple keyword search interface, ExpatFinder provides its users access to the highly detailed and relevant information needed to make informed expatriation and relocation decisions.

“Expatriation is characterized by a need for information on various topics with a different perspective than other average web users. Expats need deeper, more focused information to relocate with ease. With the unveiling of our specialized search engine www.ExpatFinder.com, we are excited to be able to provide expats all over the world with a comprehensive and user-friendly resource, giving access to information search but also very soon additional search for services like local relocation services, international moving, housing and much more,” said co-founder Sébastien Deschamps.

The global family start-up with offices in Singapore and France, uses the search technology from French company Exalead and Singapore’s Qweki (for the blog search only). “Working with a mature search engine technology provider like Exalead gave us the necessary experience to build a state of the art search solution. Qweki allowed us a greater flexibility with the expat blogging community. “adds Francois Deschamps, co-founder, Interexpat.

In addition to web search, users of ExpatFinder.com can interact and share the experience and lifestyle with other expats by doing a search on blogs, and discussion forums. The Expat Blog search provides an insight on local experiences through the eyes of an expat and further helps to ease the adjustment of expats and expat families to make the relocation a success.

About Interexpat & ExpatFinder.com
French and French-American co-founders Francois and Sébastien Deschamps are working on innovative solutions for the expatriate populations around the world. ExpatFinder is one of their favourite as it combines their fascination for the search technology as well as their goal to bring support to people and families in global transition or with international lifestyles. ExpatFinder is also the first website launched by their co-founded Singapore based company: Interexpat Pte Ltd. They are currently working on other expat-related projects including a community website to drive innovation in the expatriate online experience. For more information visit: www.expatFinder.com

SearchMe now with Stacks – Cool Stuff – itsReal

Google Search doesn’t come close to what SearchMe is rolling out – check out the Videos

SearchMe might take some getting use to but – I’m going to focus on getting used to it…the interaction with social media platforms looks awesome – please come home from ICU little Mac – I hear you are almost recovered – APLINK

altsearchengines.com is all about search – itsReal

Google is THE dominant player in search and with its vast resources it is no wonder. Google’s rise almost overnight is spectacular and from last nite’s Vinton Cerf’s presentation organised by The Digital Movement (TDM) they already have an IPv6 version ready for major release when the time is right. But as you will read there are literally thousands of search engines out in the market like my client’s recruit.net, which are useful and are making market niches for themselves.

Thanks to Charles Knight of altsearchengines.com more of us consumers are able to know about these inspired search companies – His amazing blog style site can keep you abreast of the latest in search technology and the market players battling it out to crave a slice for themselves in the lucrative search market.

Charles just became even more famous with his interview on AcessMyLibrary.com, an excerpt is below

AltSearchEngines

SYNOPSIS

AltSearchEngines is a blog that provides news, reviews, and analysis of specialized and emerging search engines. It’s a fascinating window into the non-Google search engine world, and it’s a necessary hangout for search engine fans. We’re not sure that the next Google is here yet, but the pretenders are an engaging lot nonetheless.

PRODUCER

AltSearchEngines, http://www.altsearchengines.com

So you think you know all about search engines? OK, you use Google all the time, and sometimes you use its specialty engines including Scholar or Blogs. You occasionally use Yahoo! or Ask.com. And admit it, you’ve become quite fond of YouTube, and some of you even have MySpace or Facebook profiles. Finally, you’re probably adept at a few proprietary online services. Basically, you think you have this online search thing figured out.

But not so fast. Are you using QueryCAT and factbites.com for targeted fact retrieval? Can you analyze the respective metasearch capabilities of Intelways, Ixquick, Sputtr.com, and TurboScout? Is KoolTorch a better visualization engine than Liveplasma? Well, maybe you don’t know as much as you think you do.Maybe you’re not a Master of the Search Engine Universe after all. Maybe you need to spend some time at AltSearchEngines (www .altsearchengines.com).

No Google Here

AltSearchEngines is a combination directory, news service, review source, rating agency, job post, and general blogosphere for alternate search engines (ASEs) operated by Charles Knight. He describes himself on the site as an “industry analyst and former SEO.” On AltSearchEngines, he’s the manager of a lively site that ASE users and developers visit frequently.

Read more at AccessMyLibrary – (to read the full story a simple rego is needed) – itsReal

APLINK republished at AltSearchEngines

NEW Search Engine: SearchMe is in beta Launch – it has IVR – itsReal

Seems Google may have a strong Competitor coming called SearchMe – search is based on Visual and looks to be a whole heap of FUN – but dial up connections (yes there are still millions of them) won’t be able to use searchme – but then again it has IVR – Instant Visual Recognition – very cool and worth upgrading to a decent connection speed….

Watch the demo’s

On the Searchme Site and then sign up for a beat account

My Mate Allen reminded me SearchMe is coming – thanks mate

recruit.net is the google of job search – millions of jobs – itsReal

A recent conversation with a well known Singapore blogger opened my eyes to a little known fact and that is, even though Recruit.net is well known for giving away a free iPhone, there still appears to be some confusion amongst many about what recruit.net really is about, and that the simplest way of explaining recruit.net is that it is the google of job search….

……Every day thousands of companies are posting new job openings on the internet.

How do you find them all? Do you have the time to search all the different web sites for that special job?

Recruit.net is an award winning job search engine that searches and discovers new job postings for you. You have free and instant access to millions of jobs from thousands of companies with one simple search.

Recruit.net search technology crawls the internet to find job listings from corporate web sites, job boards, recruitment agencies, newspapers, classifieds, associations and more.

Recruit.net does the work, so you don’t have to.

Millions of jobs, Thousands of companies, One search.

Recruit.net operates an international network of job search engines that covers Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Join the Recruit.net group on facebook –

2.5 days left – Now or Never Chance to win the iPhone from recruit.net – itsReal

ATTENTION SINGAPORE BLOGGERS… DO YOU WANT THIS…Start 2008 in style, WHO now has what it takes to WIN the iPhone – 2.5 days left – Now or Never Chance to win the iPhone from recruit.net…

Recruit.net – Creative Feedback Challenge (RCFC)

Recruit.net – a vertical search engine for jobs and recent winner of the Red Herring 100 Award for top tech companies is launching in Singapore!

The team at Recruit.net is looking for suggestions and feedback from the local blogging community on how Recruit.net can best be customized for the local Singapore market. Your entry is up to you so get creative. Entries must be pinged to ping.sg to qualify.

Recruit.net is offering the blogger with the best suggestion an Apple iPhone, yes an iPhone and for the runner up a 8GIG iPod Nano.

Ping.sg & Recruit.net know that bloggers are highly creative people and so we would like to challenge the Singapore blogging community to be as CREATIVE in their submissions as they can be. Remember, an iPhone from Apple is at stake, do you want to be the envy of all your friends when your iPhone rings? The runner up gets the much sort after 8GIG iPod Nano. We obviously want to reward you for your efforts to help us make Recruit.net the MOST appropriate online recruitment portal in Singapore.

All creative concepts, reviews and suggestions need to be tagged RCFC and posted to Ping.sg. All RCFC tagged entries will be reviewed by Recruit.net on January 2nd 2008. The entry with the most creative, constructive, and honest feedback will be a proud owner of a new iPhone from Apple. Recruit.net will announce the winners on 17th January 2008 at a special event at Geek Terminal Singapore where all short listed entries will be on display.

Terms & Conditions

Prizes can not be exchanged for cash
Judges decision is final
All Entries submitted to the contest become property of recruit.net
Contest is only open to Singapore Citizens & PR’s, work permit and employment pass holders

Entries must appear on your blog and ping.sg to qualify

Wiki Boss builds “Google Nightmare”

Is a dominance search engine war about to erupt

clipped from www.imediaconnection.com Wiki boss builds “Google’s nightmare” Search is a job for computers. But if you’re Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, there certainly seems to be room for a little human touch. Wales, who announced a wiki-powered search engine earlier this year, released screen shots of his new product, which he says is on track to revolutionize search. The search engine will eventually launch as part of Wikia, a for profit venture from Wales.