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, ...

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 ...

Google and other search engines can now be able to crawl and index Flash content which is so far is indiscoverable for search engines crawlers, thanks to Adobe enhanced Flash Player Technology and Flash indexing algorithm because of which now search engines can crawl the Flash based sites, however crawling will be limited to textual content in Flash only and not the images that could be Flash media. Search engines can now be able to crawl and index text that users can see as they interact with Flash based website or file (.SWF). The textual content in Flash files will than be used to generates snippets to display in search engines results. Moreover, search engine cant index FLV files as well, such as the videos on YouTube, because these files contain no text elements. All in all, search engine with Adobe's optimized Flash Technology can now find themselves feasible to crawl textual content in Flash based SWF files and others are still under R&D block of search engines and Adobe to fix Flash indexing algorithm further. Webmasters and Web designers can find the general FAQs for further clarification Google Flash Indexing FAQs and Adobe Flash Searchability FAQs, although they do not have to ...

Search for source codes of any programming languages has been demand since programmers and developers are being gifted 24/7 broadband internet with themselves they now dont have to go all those heavy reference books to page by page. Among all code searching websites Google once again in search come top in this with its product Google Code Search that every body knows about. Open Source code search engines act as repository of all documented source codes of various programming languages or various projects source codes open for public display, optimized highly to show results of only source codes. Despite of this there are some specialist search engines made specifically for code search. Some of them that I went through are; Koders.com is one among leading search engine of open source code search. Display of results of source codes, I found on this site is least confusing and nicely formatted with codes in Grey background, display 3 lines below source code - Language source (C, C++ etc.), LOC (length of code, e.g. 43, 120 etc.) and reference document source along with active link to it. Koders .com also provides Koders IDE plug-ins for developers and programmers for Visual Studio.NET 2003 and 2005 and Eclipse ...