Feb 19, 2011, on start of World Cup Cricket, posted by Mike Dutton.

Mar 14, 2011, on occassion of 80th Anniversary of – Alam Ara,  a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani and was the first Indian sound film.

Mar 20, 2011, on occassion of Holi festival, one of the main festivals of India ans also a national holiday, posted by Mike Dutton.

Jun 15, 2011, a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse. Moreover it was a special interactive doodle, which updated throughout the day to show the latest state of the moon, one ca still see the interactive Doodle at – Total Lunar Eclipse 2011 page. Lunar imagery provided by Slooh. Posted by Noel Gorelick, Chief Extraterrestrial Observer and Technical Lead in Special Projects.

Sep 17, 2011, on ocassion of Anant Pai’s 82nd birthday popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967.

Nov 14, 2011, its a Indian Winner of Doodle 4 Google 2011, the doodle is made of Indian musical instruments and created by Varsha Gupta studying in Ryan International School, Greater Noida, India.

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Mloovi RSS Translator – Mloovi is new tool which translate RSS feeds into 24 languages including Hindi using Google Translator. In short period the tool has gain appreciation among its users.

SlidehShare Ribbon – A Powerpoint Plug-in from Slideshare that lets you search SlideShare, download powerpoint presentations and upload your own presentation without opening a web browser.

ReadSpeaker WebReader – ReadSpeaker is a widget service that one can add to web page or blogs posts and let the visitors listen to it. It is a kinda button that when clicked will read the entire page or a pre-defined part of the content chosen by website/ blogs owners.

Dropbox – Its a file syncing tool and acts like a online network drive. Its ergonomic ability to drop files into a folder and have that same folder show up on every other computer you own. Just add a folder to your desktop and copy files. You can also share complete folders so that anyone with access to the folder sees and is able to use the shared, synced files.

Carbonite – Its an online back-up utility that sits in system tray and watches important files/ folders and automatically archive them to a secure website as you work. There is no storage space limit, but on a per day basis (in GBs).

Glync – Glync is a Firefox extension which adds historical graphs to the External Links page in Google Webmaster Tools. This means that you can track your link growth over time. The professional version also tracks your Yahoo Site Explorer links, the links for all of your sub-pages, and the PageRank of all your sub-pages and links pointing to those sub-pages. (See Demo Video)

Notipal – This essential tool that not only notifies you of broken links and error pages on your website but also give the option to your visitors to enter their email address to be notified when your site is fixed.

Just for Bloggers

Tynt Copy-Paste Leveraging – Tynt provide a way as – whenever anyone copies the content from your blog/site it automatically place your link in addition to your copied content when its being pasted on other site. This brings traffic and morover Tynt also provides the monitoring/ analytics of copied content from your website/blog.

ShowYourself Widget/ Links – For bloggers who love to flaunt their online Identities on multiple platofrms such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked, MySpace, Yahoo Upcoming and many more its a perfect tool to create pretty huge links of same in a widgetised manner.

Anonymous Linking – At times when you do not want through your links to reveal your website information on other analytics software, use this tool. This tool stop referrer information from going through your links.

WikiPad – Its an open source Wiki-like notebook for bloggers/ writers for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. Its different to other editors as you can cross-link your information within it and it also named as “IDE for your thoughts”.

Images & Pictures

ResizR – Its is a free nifty and useful tools that allows to resize an image and optionally rotate as well from your local computer or the web.

ScrnShots – A nice set of tools to Search, Upload and take screen shots of anything on web or even your desktop.

PicMarkr – PicMarkr free tool that lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images on your website or blog.  It is useful when you want to protect your copyrights of images and pictures published on your website or blog.

Browsershots – Check & Test your website in almost all different web browsers present these days right from chrome to firefox, flock or IE (all version) in different OS (Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD).

BrowserSize – A nifty online tool for setting your browser size while doing Web design and find out your browser’s current size plus more.

kissa.be – This tool is comes handy though its URL shortner but here you can shorten URL along with email, text and Image as well.

Coded Preview

IE7 JS Script – IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Mikogo Skype Plugin – It’s as a Skpe Extra (i.e. plug-ins for Skype) where users can have free screen sharing and phone calls together for no cost. With Mikogo Skype Extra one can invite up to 10 participants to any Mikogo screen sharing session directly from your Skype installed in your systems.

Test Everything – Test everything of your website from CSS/ HTML validations, SEO tools to Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools and more.

Web Analytics & Traffic Monitoring

AreMySitesUp Via SMS – It is a simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down, moreover it send notifications via email or SMS text message to your cell phone. Site checks are performed 25 times per day and for up to 20 sites for a free account and 60 sites for paid ones.

SWIX – SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media it tracks where your traffic comes from like blogs, twitter feeds, facebook, YouTube Channel etc. As its free during its beta life you can try it without any cost.

Piwik – Its an open source web analytics with as flexible as any developer can make it. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages and more.

Scrutinizer – Its a pack full of 283 website monitoring and other useful tools at one place.

WBOSS – WBOSS (Web Based Open Source Spell Checker) is designed to work with any text input form on any web page and its script allows users to paste text into the website and find any spelling errors so they can be fixed before publishing it. Via – Joshua Cantara.

Webmaster/ Developer Resource – A huge list in itself and all-in-one page linking to resource, tools, utilities, reference materials and all that stuff that have something to do with webmasters and website builders.

User behavior & User Experience

Loop¹¹ – Loop11 is a web-based user-experience testing tool, allowing companies to conduct online, unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool… helping you to understand user behaviour.

Clixspy – Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do such as mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions.

Clickdensity – Clickdensity allows to analyze the user experience and identify usability and information architecture issues and generate reports and heat map showing the relative popularity of components on web pages.

Colorblind web-page filter – Its a a testing tool to analyze how a web page will look like to people having colorblindness and generate similar web pages with those colors only.

HTML, CSS & Forms

WordPress Theme Generator – This unique tool is for WordPress self-hosted blog owners. It generates and creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme be it 2column, 3-column along with all AJAX features with YUI and that too without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

Wufoo – HTML form builder to create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.

PHP Form Generator – Create your own running PHP form and download the HTML in just three simple steps no programming required.

ColT (Link to HTML) – Its a Firefox extension that adds two menu items to the browser’s context menu when you right click a hyperlink, it shows options as – “Copy Link Text and Location As” to the menu enabling users to copy the text and its link in either HTML, plain text, BB Code, FuseTalk, or Wikipedia formats.

FireScope – Its a quite handy Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug and provide HTML and CSS reference information with Firefox browser.

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Google Movies Search

Google movies search is accessible over web, mobiles, iPhones just go to google.com/movies, it will automatically trace your location and show latest/ upcoming movies listing in theaters new you and can even play trailers, show ratings and categories, movie posters, upcoming showtimes, and a concise list of the nearest theaters and their distances from you.

Google Files Search

Google search commands gives a very useful way to search specific files such as MS Word, PDFs, RTF or even ZIP files, all you have to do is add <space>filetype:<file extension> after the search, for ex. – ‘filetype:.doc’ for word documents and ‘filetype:pdf’ for acrobat PDF files (see pic above).

Google Music Search

Google music search is a good option for music lovers that allow you to search latest songs, albums or artist and play them at same time. However, due to legal constraints the Music search is restricted to users in US only.

Google Dictionary

Google Fast-Flip

As in google’s own words – “Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches”. One can also read the leading online dailies and websites over their mobiles through fast-flip mobile.

Google Stocks Quotes Search

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Google Squared returns search results in a spreadsheet format. It structures the unstructured data on web pages. So a search for ‘Indian Prime ministers’ will returns results with names, photo, description, date of birth, party etc., in columns and rows. Interestingly to create one of squared results it takes an incredible amount of compute power to throw results in structured form from all over the web, residing as unstructured form.

Google Accessible Search

Google Patent Search

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All along year 2009, this year has been the year of disruptive ideas, innovations and originality of concept that drove the startups in India when it comes to technology, web and internet. Similar to Best Startups list in 2008 we are compiling a list of some the very interesting and gutsy startups that made impression over the world wide web.

The list is relatively small when it comes to numbers and the basic criteria of choosing the startups in India are – How disruptive is an Idea behind?, Orginality of startup concept, Are they really startup? and lastly how much impact did they made to their similar competitors/counterparts with their first presence.

So, here we go;

VoicePHP – A product by Tringme which is a Bangalore, India-based startup come up with disruptive simple idea of infusing VoIP into PHP by using the familiar PHP programming methodology which can be freely downloaded and is used by majority of web developers. TringMe introduces this simple technology as not an extension to PHP but the same PHP which now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text.

iMO – iMO, a Gurgaon, India based 3-people early-age startup who was able make to Top 50 finalist of Techcrunch 50 and won best presentation. iMo is an app that turns an iPhone/iPod Touch into a video game controller that works with existing PC video games, giving it Wii like capabilities. Unlike using the PC’s boring keyboard/mouse one can hold the iPhone like a steering wheel and drive a race car or like a joystick to fly a fighter plane. iMo leverages the iPhone/iPod Touch’s built-in accelerometer and touch screen to not just mimic the standard game controllers such as the joystick but add a lot more control to take gaming action to the next level.

VoiceTap – A small but impressive 8 person startup based out of Noida, India and awarded with Asia Top 100 Startups award 2009 by Red Herring. VoiceTap come-up with their product ‘Getafixx’ – a knowledge engine, which allows a knowledge seeker to connect with experts from around the world using the medium of chat or VoIP and connect knowledge seekers to expert knowledge over the web (chat, VoIP), Gtalk client / Gmail including textual chat or voice or the mobile phone. Voicetap has received seed funding from a Singapore based consortium.

Druvaa Insync – This is a Pune based enterprise startup, which launched its product Druva inSync, an automated laptop backup software which protects corporate data for office and remote users. Available for Windows and Linux features simple backup, point-in-time restores, data deduplication technology.

This made in India software has many advance and impressive technologies such as – timeline based infinite versions of file giving user an option to restore from any point in time in the past, 90% reduction in bandwidth, 10 times faster backup speed with distributed data de-duplication technology and storage utilization, automatic network prioritization and bandwidth scheduling makes it network sensitive. The software managed to bag impressive client list as – NASA, Serco, Emerson and Capita.

What’s On India – What’s-On-India is an India’s premier TV guidance and EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), a Mumbai based start-up funded in 2008 by Sequoia Capital and Nexus VP. Positioned as India’s first TV guidance channel What’s On India has designed a proprietary, indigenous India-specific EPG Production Platform that integrates Programming information from hundreds of TV channels and seamlessly reach consumers through set-top-Boxes, internet and mobile. What’s on India has a target of reaching 20 million homes by the first quarter of 2010.

DeskAway – DeskAway a Mumbai based startup by Synage Software Pvt. Ltd. deliver software as a service (SaaS) over the Internet to the global audience. DeskAway is one of the best Project Management Tool available online, free as well as paid its one of the first such web start-up from India that made mark on web inspite of already available competitors such as BaseCamp, Collab, Zoho etc. (Read Review of DeskAway)

SMSOne.in – SMS One Media is a Pune based startup serving as a very-local newsletter that delivers services to people of India’s most unconnected areas, rural villages where there is no internet, no local newspaper and as usual seldom get electricity supply and thus no TV news access. SMS one thus integrate, interconnect local communities providing the local news, updates over the mobiles as SMS.

SMSOne is also providing a means of self-employment opportunities & social prestige to hundreds of school-college dropouts and youth social workers as franchise/ local reporter who goes door-to-door and collect subscribers name, phone number and other information. The startup has got National Youth Award by Gov. of India and become more prominently famous when first got mentioned in TechCrunch as unique concept startups across the world.

Dhingana – Dhingana is a social platform around entertainment and impressive Indian startup doing really cool things with its products we have reviewed on IndianWeb2.com, the company has developed  impressive apps be it iPhone App, Gmail app or an Orkut App apart from this Dhingana is one of the finest music portal for south-asian community with songs, music and public playlists. The company has also been awarded as OpenSocial Application winner at Google.

Toufee – Developed by New Delhi based startup Day and Night Solutions, Toufee is an online flash movie maker application that lets one create flash movies and multimedia presentations in a matter of minutes with easy-to-use interface and without any knowledge of Adobe Flash or have programming skills to produce Flash animations. The edge of this Indian startup over other similar apps in world market is that its lightweight, easy to use, straightforward and much matured.

Toufee currently ranks in the top 5 flash apps by Adobe.com in it’s official flex showcase.

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1. The Environmental Atlas of Europe – A digital platform for educating citizens about climate change, along with nine case studies illustrating the consequences of climate change in different environments, such as the shrinking ice cover in the Baltic.
2. Bend the Trend – An online global program that helps people make pledges to reduce their carbon emissions.
3. Eye on Earth – Windows Azure-powered portal that lets users track and give feedback about their environmental data such as air and water quality. The data is being provided by different individuals across the globe, through Bing maps, historical environment data and via environment monitoring stations.
4. Project 2 Degrees – A Web-based Emissions Tracker software tool for cities around the world to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by calculating the carbon footprint and also to plan meaningful actions that save energy and money and thus making an impact in fight against climate change.

FIAT

EcoDrive – An innovative computer application that will help you improve how efficiently you drive. Analysis your driving style and helps you to use less fuel reducing CO2 emissions and saving money also.

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1. Google Earth – If you have Google earth in your computer download the tours of climate predictions from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and can also view climate change scenarios, narrated tours, investigate deforestation, and oceans floors on Google earth.
2. Google COP15 and related Videos – Watch the nice illustrated videos of climate change on planet Earth and learn about solutions for adaptation and mitigation, in the context of COP15.

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In India more and more Professional Networking sites are coming in and not from just small scale start-ups but big brands too such as Times of India Group and Info Edge (company behind 99acres.com, naukri.com).

Here are few top Indian based Professional Networking sites that are making quite good impression over Indian audience.

Brijj.com is online professional network from same company who is behind 99acres.com and Naukri.com, the networking site launched in August 2007 and still in beta, has now gradually emerging as choice of people’s own pro-networking site.

PeerPower.com is another big brand supported Pro-networking community portal and little different to other networking portals in its peer portal. The portal is flagship of Time Business Online Pvt. Ltd. and its too in beta mode earlier it was in closed beta users mode.

SiliconIndia – It is one most rapidly growing professional networking although carry more of a news aggregating site’s features and traits. The home page consist of news pieces and stories rather than any professional network portal although when when navigated deeply will how you few good professional communities, groups, jobs and career related content.

Kreeo.com – Kreeo is a web based knowledge-based networking for companies, individuals and institutions who can build their own networks of knowledge along with tools such as news feeds, content sharing and forums etc.

ApnaCircle is one of the first Professional and career networking sites in India among all in this list. Sabeer Bhatia, Hotmail creator is among core producers of the portal. The portal has both social and professional networking features is frequently making changes to lure users.

SysInclude is professional networking for IT professionals, the portal at moment is by invitation only. Moreover the portal offer two kind of account one is individual and other corporate account, while the former one is free and later is paid and will have more features that will help manage the recruiting process and have better search capabilities for corporates.

Wapr.com – its is perhaps the most recent entrant in business & professional networking portals in India. Its a bit different portal in its niche, providing some really nice features for both companies and professionals as their different user-base and targeting them differently.

iProBook – This is one professional networking portal yet to be released though i found its underground URL from google here as iProbook in Labs. The portal has clean and user friendly UI and plenty of good interactive features and all about creating and managing your business/ professional networks. What impressed me is its clean UI and use of ajax scripts at perfect places.

TooStep is yet another professional community portal, however it gives an impression of some portfolio management tool or so, reason being fragmented UI and its content element. The portal is more about building community of professional and exchange, discuss, debate about topics, ideas etc.

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Community News – Its a nice plugin if you want to infuse some sense of community for your readers, visitors to take part in sharing, submitting their own content. Also If your blog update is not so frequent then adopting this plugin can atleast bring you some ‘new content’ for your blog. The plugin comes with with moderation panel, a settings page and its own RSS.

Media Burner – Its a cool plugin that extracts media files (MP3, FLV, YouTube, etc) from your blog posts automatically by filtering post content on the fly and creates a site-wide player. Although it still to release full fledged its great to have it even if you seldom put videos in your blog posts. (Example Screenshot below)

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You might heard of citizen Journalism where visitors involve in publishing their own articles apart from it, this service cum plugin does Citizen Editing i.e. let you visitors do copy-editing your blog just by selecting the word(s). In other words it crowd-source any blog’s copy-editing to readers and as a blog owner you get a notification for each edit, and you can then go in and see what the suggested change is and have it fixed with one click.

GuestBook – As the name says, its a GuestBook plug-in with more than just comment form, it notifies your readers by mail when a new entry has been posted. Moderation, so that you have to check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook along with Recaptcha and Akismet integration for fighting spam.

1-Click WP Plugin Install – This is amazing plugin combination of WordPress hooks and Greasemonkey script that you install in your firefox browser for WordPress.org site, now whenever you browse plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugin you will see install link below the download link and now you can install plugin to your WordPress installation in one go, amazing isn’t it!

ProPlayer – It places online videos into your post by using any FLV Custom Player with 27 skins and great features customized for your blog branding such as Custom Playlists, Youtube Playlists, Rating video, Visualizer for audio files, Displaying watermark etc.

Live Blogging – Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events, such as major sport events or tech conferences, it create new options settings in WordPress admin dashboard and one can create live micro-blogging to your blog in any particular post. The screencast made to understand is superb too see – Live Blogging screencast

Different Posts Per Page – This useful plugin will allow you to modify the number of posts shown in home, category, archive or search page by ascending or descending order. You can set custom number of posts for other pages as well like – Author, Paged, Feed, Date, Month or Categories page of you WordPress blog.

Retaggr – Its a plugin to let your commentators flaunt their profiles they might have on web entities such as facebook, linkedIn, MySpace, Twitter etc. The plugin have almost every networking site on earth to show-off, when reader mouse-over the name it shows a virtual, interactive business card with which you can customize as well.

Community Cloud Plugin – This plugin simply displays a ‘tag cloud’ but this time for all the people who have contributed to our blog by commenting. The more comments someone has made on your blog the bigger and bolder their tag. The plugin adds a sense of community bulding features and feel good factor for your true commentators of your blog and this way you can reward them.

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In India Agriya Infoway a chennai based web solution company provide ready made social network software called Kootali with a price tag of $247 and contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more. Interestingly the company also provides other scripts as well such as social bookmarking script, video sharing software.

In a similar fashion another chennai based company i-netsolution provide commercial PHP based Orkut Clone with similar layout/ look-n-feel as Orkut is having along with admin interface so any amateur HTML developer can run it likewise to blogging software, watch the user view of same here.

iScripts.com is providing an another PHP based open source online community portal script called iScripts SocialWare with all social networking portal features with mulitple theme/ layouts along with Gift store that can support real gifts or virtual gifts. This open source script will cost you as low as $99.

Free Open Source Scripts

Inspite of all these commercially available scripts there are more free open source scripts available than commerical ones to host install them on your own servers and play with and monetize it for you own good such as PHPFox, Elgg, Dolphin etc.

MakeUseOf has published last year 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Softwares and Mashable’s 10 of the Best Open Source Social Platforms have listed some of the chosen one among them.

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Large Scale Social Network

BigAdda.com has one of a first Indian based social networking portal after Google’s Orkut and has even manged to get large user base through excellent marketing strategies and brand i.e. Reliance. The portal is perpetually getting more user base even after months of its launch and one of a big reason being blog of Amitabh Bachachan on Bigadda.com.

Social News Portal

The ViewsPaper, a Gurgaon based web startup focussed at youth population of India and wants them to write for theviewspaper.net, in a concept of citizen journalism. with wide varieties of content to share with the paper in form of news, videos or anything that sounds a good opinion as youth voice.

Mobile Applications

Savitr TxtMe is successful custom mobile application in 2008 for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps along with customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Other worth to mention is RockeTalk.com.

Mobile Search

Zook.in is much hyped and growing search service in Indian mobile internet users. A Bangalore startup incubated at premier Indian management institute IIM, Bangalore has really impressed the users with its search capabilities over the mobile.

Microblogging Service

Kwippy is one mobile startup that has impressed me a lot in terms of its overall web performance be its UI, usability, services it offers, functionalities. Kwippy one among Twitter like services that has started in early 2008 yet it managed to outperform all the ones in India atleast, although SMSGupShup remain the most used one.

Social Bookmarking

Tagza.com is one and only social bookmarking site in India that made a mark in 2008 though IndianPad.com and newscola.com remain the top social bookmarking sites in India.

Sports Portal

Cricket360.com is only sports category portal that made mark in 2008 in sports news and content in India, though it talk about Cricket only but what we could thought about sports in India apart from Cricket. Cricket360 has given a pretty good competition to Crickinfo.com’s monopoly.

Embeddable Widgets

PrachaarThis remain the one and only startup in India in embeddable widgets category but and however we hope that we see more in this category from Indian startups arena in 2009 atleast.

User Generated Content Portal

IndiaMarks.com, once a social bookmarking service changed its model in 2008 and came up as user generated content portal and in year manged to be best among all user generated content portals in India when it comes to text based informative content.

Places & Events

BuzzinTown is no doubt the best among all event based websites/ portals in India. Buzzintown.com is a portal owned by Wortal Inc., a US headquartered company, with a presence pan-India through India subsidiary. At present it provide events & entertainment updates for 13 cities in India.

Music

RhyDhun is best of Music category application from MusicIndiaOnline, an India JukeBox with loads of features and stunning interface it remain the ace web startup in music category in India

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DeepDyve – This is latest search engine which don’t want to call itself as just another search engine and claim to provide rich, relevant search results along with professional, high-caliber sources. Though require sign-in, I find it very useful when you want just relevant results in short time.

Viewzi – This is kind of visual tool to search info, content, news, photos, videos, songs in number of enjoyable visually manipulated ways. Its a flash based search service and one would love to browse and drill down in its search especially its own Google Timeline news search.

Kosmix – Its more like a Aggregator of search results fetched from different top sources most of them being user generated content such as Digg, Fark, Yahoo Buzz, etc. Kosmix has been started by an Indian entrepreneur and present content/ search results to users in much organized way. A search portal worth to use.

TineEye Reverse Image Search – TinEye is not so new reverse image search engine i.e. give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web. It also offer plugins for Firefox & IE.

SocialMention – Its a new social media search engine that lets you search comments, bookmarks and microblogs as separate results see the SocialMention review to find more about same.

Shufs – A Search portal dedicated to search files at file sharing websites such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, Badongo and zShare. A similar site is RapidshareData.com.

Domize – For domain name search this is one of the coolest search spot to find the domain you are looking for even if you dont want to buy one, its still worthy to play with. The Results are shown with a visually nice effect and with combinations of letters you have typed in. One can also look for domain via their iPhones with its Domize iPhone App.

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This Questions/ Answers search engine has been recently launched in Indian startup arena to browse question & answers, FAQs. Read this web startup’s review for more information.

Navigaya – This is nearly a next-gen search portal or say search engine+portal+RIA+web 2.0 app+ more. Navigaya has been launched in September this year and is a search engine cum “browser based browser”, flash technology based portal website/ online media center. (…Navigaya review)

RefSeek – Its a search engine for researchers, students, academicians, scientist and education related people. This reference search engine in beta search over billion documents including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Serph – Serph is a search engine that one can use to find out what people are saying on the web space. Its like finding web pages similar to contain the term search in Google, difference being – its not google and comes with additional results.

Cyclops – Its a royalty free stock photography search engine, it simply put results of the most popular stock sites to one location, as cyclops search results.

Mix Turtle – Its a music search engine where one can search for English songs as well as create & search playlists too.

Zudos – Zudos is people power search that allows you to search what everyday, people and the media have to say about any desired topic, keyword or your website/ blog. The results include web-pages, tags, bookmarks, videos, podcasts and tagged photos.

2lingual – This is search engine with language translation of search results in any two chosen language of 35 different available languages. Seattle, Washington based 2lingual makes it possible for users to bilingually search the Web, videos, and wikipedia.

RadioBeta – Its a new radio search portal that let one search radio stations/ channels as per genre as well as refine by geographical location. visit India radios for radio stations from India.

Vizzl – This is is a Visual Search tool portal that lets you search for Amazon, Ebay and YouTube for movies, music or books or videos respectively in highly customizable manner and visually appealing results in its flash based UI.

FaceSearch – Simply search people face pictures from public profiles of different sources such as Facebook, Twitter etc.

Joongel – Its a search portal that in turn search Top 10 search sources in each category, say for any Music search it will search Top 10 sites of Music category i.e. Last.FM, Pandora.com, Grooveshark, Songza, Jogli and 5 more.

Zook.in – A mobile search startup from India incubated at IIM Bangalore, see review here

PDFGeni – As name says it searches PDF books and docs over the web and got simple and clean layout search results with direct links to PDFs.

Woonz MP3 Search – Its pretty good audio search engine to find MP3 audio files and create/ embed playlists. Woonz.com allows to search by artist/band name or track name or any audio file you want.

IM BroadCast – Its a video search portal for Internet marketers, SEOs and categories include Google SEO, Keyword research, Adwords, social media or other niche market videos etc. See review

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