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 ...

Google has now finally come up with all new and much more colorful design interface although till time its on google.com address only and not for all its country specific servers such as Google.co.in. After a big time of a decade Google has made drastic changes in its design interface, which everyone is talking about - more glossy and colorful Logo, eye-catching blue search buttons and new left sidebar with extra search filters. Google has included the time-line search which was accessible in labs earlier and other search filters such as Blog, Forum, More or less Shopping sites in results and interesting ones are - Page Reviews and Related Search filters that show some extra metrics provided by Google.

Ask.com had a new launched site just a month back called Ask.com/deals, which is nothing more than a shopping aggregator site to find and buy best bargained products online. Now for this Holiday season and with Halloween coming-up, Ask.com come up with new advertising model to propagate its product Ask deals. Askdeals.com is a new microsite that show some videos of users which actually a new interactive way of viral marketing where users can record their own videos with ask jingle/tune in background and which would be shown on Askdeal microsite and can even get posted on facebook in ones' news feed so that friends can see videos through link back to askdeals.com site. A cool and smart way to propagate the askdeals.com through social networking medium and catch up the crowd. The site might not have great USP but the interactive advertising strategy is pretty much impressive.

Microsoft today now revealed its buzzing search engine Bing's next offshoot - Bing Travel, it has flight and hotel search, airfare price predictions, travel news and community, travel deals, and more. Added to this, starting today itself, people searching on Bing search engine for hotels in a given city will get Bing Travel Instant Answers included directly in their search results, featuring the Rate Indicator, let them choose hotels etc. Moreover, from now onwards Microsoft acquired Farecast, previously farecast.live.com and MSN Travel will be entertained through Bing travel only. Farecast has been named one of Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites” in 2006. In recent Press note Microsof mentioned some of Bing Travel’s key features such as - Price predictor, Rate indicator, comparison flight & hotel search and more. Bing Travel uses Farecast technology to analyze more than 175 billion airfare observations and predict whether the price of a flight is going up or down. It offers people a recommendation of “Buy Now” or “Wait,” including a confidence level and expected price increase or decrease over the next seven days. Bing travel will also be twittering at twitter as 'Fareologists' at Bing Travel to twit about airfare and hotel deals, industry trends, and travel news.

Below is the list of new and few good Search engines or portals that serve search results in quite different way or in a different niche and that could be quite worthy to use in conjunction with major search engines. 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 ...

SnappyFingers, a web startup from Bangalore is a Question and Answer search engine. It crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Question/Answer format. While most visitors use the site for finding answers, few have also found it to be valuable in conducting research. The site is in beta, and has a database of 3 million questions, UI is pretty good and stand firm when it comes to usability, user friendliness and search results are just relevant and seems at this initial stage if more work is done on same it could perform well in vertical search category of question/ answers. Although people are used to look for answers on popular domains such as Answers.com, Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers which every web startup have to compete with, that have similar website model and concept. A web startup has to think about what it has to offer more and not less than what others are already offering on web. Noticeably, in this regard few good example are Mixx.com w.r.t Digg, Friendfeed w.r.t Twitter or what edge does Quantcast/ compete.com have over Alexa. The company behind vertical search engine is planning to increase the number of ...

SocialMention is a new social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and micro-blogging services. The service uses numerous sources to fetch respective content. In search engine category it would be the first attempt at being search portal of social media related content along with user generated content especially Bookmarks, Comments & Microblogs at one place. Also, if we set the success factor apart (though my best wishes to SocialMention) it would be pretty good concept for online startups to further move this concept ahead. All the while, SocialMention allows to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. (SocialMention Sources) and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can track conversations as they are happening in real-time. In addition to web-based search results, Social Mention also features email alerts and personalized RSS feeds for automatic and instant updates. As few word of advice, I would suggest the portal should inculcate more blogs, ...

On its 10th birthday (Sep.23) Google has come up with few more things other than the interesting Google TimeLine through one can see momentous events and updates in Google related History right from 1995 (when Larry meet Sergey) to 2008's Google's own Chrome Browser. Google on its birthday is offering sharing in its own way with its dedicated URL - Project10tothe100.com through which everyone has been invited to share & submit their ideas to Google and then these ideas will shortlisted to 100 ideas and then will be asked to the public (on January 27 2009), to choose 20 semi-finalists. Then an advisory board will select up to 5 final ideas. Google will give $10 million for selected idea and the last date for submitting ideas is October 20th 2008 and remember the criteria for ideas shortlisting as per google is; Reach: How many people would this idea affect? Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent is the need? Attainability: Can this idea be implemented within a year or two? Efficiency: How simple and cost-effective is your idea? Longevity:How long will the idea's impact last?

Navigaya is a new model of portal cum search engine cum "browser based browser" flash technology based portal website/ online media center, where users can search multiple search engines faster and easier than ever before, get headline and video updates from any RSS syndicated website, create YouTube powered streaming video playlists for uninterrupted background playback, manage their favorite site links via a simple yet beautiful scrolling interface, save all customized portal settings and playlists online for use anywhere without any hassles and finally share everything with friends and strangers. Well, Navigaya.com combines all elements of search engines (Google, Yahoo, Lycos, Wikipedia etc.) along with web surfing experience such as video, audio and text with categories/ sections divided to navigate through in fun way. Apparently, it claims that it can ‘find everything sharper, deeper and faster’. Moreover, one big benefit of Navigaya is that its actually uses as a social network - you will find this option on the “login” icon where you can send your navigaya (the navigaya that you modified - including your favorite sites, playlists and all of your profile settings to your friends. Users can view and listen to their play list while simultaneously searching the web. The ...

SneakCast, an Indian Video Search service that we have reviewed last year as - SneakCast: India’s First Video Search Engine is down for past 6 months or so. Now the company behind it has overhauled the search portal along with new revamped logo and new concept has drawn to make it more versatile. SneakCast, this time wants to be semantic video search engine in contrast to other generic search engines today. The company talk about bring about changes in video search globally in contrast to other search engines including google who just does textual based search along with tags, back-links relevance factors. On the other hand SneakCast bet on being most relevant search engine when it comes to video, so much so that company has apparently said: SneakCast has semantics, syntactics and video analysis to increase the relevance level to as high as 63 per cent (the highest ever attained in the video search industry). The company at present is based in UK working to finally launch the service and will relocate to Mumbai, India before getting close to final rounds of fundings. The video search service also have plans to run video advertising with approx. 30 sec. of ad clips in their videos ...