Archive for the ‘Innovations’ Category

CAPTCHAs: are people smarter than machines?

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

By Dr. Eric Glover, Classification Architect, Searchme

We have all seen the CAPTCHAs that pop up before we can do something on a site that we’ve never used before. They are often in the form of “bent text” mixed with some type of distraction (a wavy line, background image etc.)
Why have CAPTCHAs? Imagine that a web […]

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

The World Time Engine is committed to bringing pinpoint time information to the WWW and beyond!
Through the development of a truly ground-breaking location resolution system for obtaining local time by place name and/or geo-coordinates they are building up their service to become the most comprehensive time service available anywhere in the world.
At AltSearchEngines, I am […]

SBWA = Search By Walking Around = Yoowalk

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

What is Yoowalk?
YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web a 3D world where you can :

Browse the web in 3D with your avatar
Build a 3D version of your website
Have your personal room in 3D
Meet people and hang around with them

YOOWALK is organized by villages, grouping websites and brands by areas of interest. When you […]

See amazing search results with amaztype

Monday, July 7th, 2008

This one is so much fun I won’t spoil it, just go here and try it!

A very clever ‘find’ engine! Clever Search Engine

Monday, July 7th, 2008

From Benjy Boak:  While having a lively and seriously interesting chat with Charles Knight of AltSearchEngines about the search engine world in general, the proposition of a guest post arose and I now find myself trying to provide something that might somehow succinctly summarize something of what my nine years in the search engine business […]

  Entries (RSS)  |  Comments (RSS) altsearchengines.com is proudly powered by WordPress  
© 2008 altsearchengines.com