Advertising search engines; it’s also advertising search engines, and an ‘Alt’ that searches ads!
Today’s Friday Fab Four are alternative Advertising Search Engines; but we’re also advertising Alternative Search Engines, OK?
It looks the beginning of a whole new Vertical for us: Advertising Search.
For example:
ollo: ollo accepts advertisements submitted by the public, essentially like classified search engines (no, they’re not classified as in, “Top Secret,” I mean like newspaper classified ads) such as Oodle or Craigslist - which could lead us to a Top 10 Advertising Search Engines, but today it is just these four. To search with ollo, you simply input into their three search boxes “What” you want, “Where” you live, and the “Price” you’re willing to pay for it.
OnlineMarketing.info is a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), that searches “dozens of hand-picked, trusted sources of marketing information, including marketing media sites, top blogs, industry associations, leading services and legal resource; 175 web sites in all.
With the advent of these CSE and other “do it yourself” search engines, some bloggers have rightly predicted that regular people like you and me (and a million of our closest friends) will create an infinite number of personalized search engines (or Swickis) on an infinite number of topics. What then? Will our Master List of Alt Search Engines change from 1,000 to 10,000? 100,000? One million? We shall see.
Always a favorite at AltSearchEngines, adverlicio.us searches, “the World’s Tastiest Collection of Online Advertising.” So it’s not advertising (i.e. promoting) search engines, nor is it an Advertising Search Engine (i.e. it’s not topical on the subject of advertising), it’s an Ad search engine! It searches for online Ads. Check it out!
Finally, there is this search engine. Just like the one created by Google’s CSE program, this one was created with Rollyo, or “Roll your own search engine.”
Clear as mud, right? Any comments? Complaints?
July 20th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
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May 7th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I like Ollo I really do, but its been around 9 years now and its online footprint is still tiny. It could be really popular if it got out their and marketed itself a bit more agressively.