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Picasa Web Albums

Picasa Web Albums (PWA) is a photo-sharing web application from Google, often compared to programs like Flickr and Zooomr. It allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of photos for free. Users can purchase more storage space, which can be shared between Google services. Users may upload pictures either via a web interface, Picasa 2.5.0 or later[4] on Microsoft Windows, using the Exporter for iPhoto, the Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plug-in, or Uploader on Mac OS X, or...

Viewzi

Viewzi is a search engine company based in Dallas, Texas that is developing a highly visual experience that tailors the way users look at information based on what they are looking for. The search engine lightens the data overload by filtering and grouping results into several distinct interfaces. Users get over 16 "views" for their search including MP3 view (with a list of streaming audio you can play), album view (cover art and related musicians), plus specialized lenses for images, news, and...

Powerset

Powerset is working on building a search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question of the form 'which U.S. state has the highest income tax?', conventional search engines ignore the question and instead do a search on the keywords 'state, income and tax'. Powerset's product, on the other hand, attempts to use natural language processing to understand the nature of the question and then to search and...

List of general Search Engines

Alexa Internet - Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on web traffic to other websites. Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) - Ask.com is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. Baidu (Chinese) - Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including an o...

December 2008 Alexa Global Top Sites

Alexa is a very powerful tool used to rank web site traffic. Find out how your web site traffic stacks up against all your competitors! .. Yahoo! - Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager. Google - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology. YouTube - YouTube is a way to get your vid...