ZincSearch Announces $3.6 Mn Funding Round to Redefine Log Analytics Search Engines

Nexus Venture Partners Leads Seed Round to Reinvent Search Technology, Making Unstructured Datasets Searchable and Actionable

ZincSearch, the company redefining search engine technology, today announced a $3.6M seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, Secure Octane, Cardinia Ventures and technology leaders including Anand Babu Periasamy, Balaji Parimi, Rob Skillington, Anshu Sharma, Luke Kim, Awais Nemat, Dan Pinto, and Alex Gallegos. Abhishek Sharma, managing director at Nexus Venture Partners, will also join the ZincSearch Board of Directors.

Unstructured data is an incredibly valuable business asset. However as organizations experience massive influxes of unstructured data from disparate sources, extracting full value from their data becomes more difficult. Zinc, a next generation, private search engine from ZincSearch, brings order to the chaos, enabling organizations to quickly and effectively query their datasets and extract actionable insight.

Founded by Prabhat Sharma, a former solutions architect at AWS, ZincSearch was born from a realization that major enterprise customers were experiencing significant cost and maintainability challenges in querying and managing their data. Most organizations rely on legacyware like Elasticsearch, which was built more than a decade ago, on expensive hosted services. Zinc addresses these challenges through a single, binary, low resource-consuming executable built in a modern language with no dependencies.

"Almost every company that I have talked to, have complained to me about their log storage complexity and cost.” said Prabhat Sharma, founder, ZincSearch. “With ELK stack on one side and expensive hosted solutions - majority of them with Elasticsearch underneath - on other side, we needed a modern easy to use and cost effective solution that solves the problem in an elegant way. ZincSearch provides a modern search platform that alleviates the log search and analytics problem.”

Initially an open source project on GitHub, Zinc has amassed more than 7,900 GitHub stars in just five months, making it one of the fastest-growing open source enterprise projects of the last 12-months.

Zinc is built on the premise that setting up and running a search engine should not require countless valuable man hours. A modern search engine should be lightweight and not consume exorbitant resources, limiting costs and ensuring peak performance. Zinc deploys in under two minutes on a server or laptop via a single, binary executable with no dependencies. Zinc is built on a modern technology stack of Go and VueJS that allow for fast development through rapid iteration, and easy operations along with low resource utilization for users. Zinc also has much lower resource requirements compared to its competitors.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Prabhat,'' said Abhishek Sharma, Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners. “Machine-generated data volumes are exploding. There are growing complaints that current log search solutions are complex and bloated. Their pricing is misaligned with value. Developers are in dire need of a powerful log search solution that’s easy to set up, fast time to value, cost-efficient, and scalable. We believe ZincSearch can become a game-changer here.”

Technology teams typically use search engines to index gigabytes, terabytes, or even petabytes of logs and search for the errors or issues that impact applications. Unfortunately due to the rising costs of storage - disk-based storage generally costs ten times more than S3-based storage in a cluster due to replication requirements - and the inefficiency of search engines, teams today often have to compromise on the amount of logs they can store, creating incomplete data sets. Zinc supports object storage as the primary means of storage for distributed search.

About ZincSearch

Initially an open source project built by ex-Amazon architect Prabhat Sharma after years of hearing customers complain about the cost, maintainability, and complexity of legacy search engines, ZincSearch is redefining search engine technology enabling anyone to deploy search engines and extract valuable, actionable insight from their data at the click of a button. One of the fastest-growing open source enterprise projects with more than 7,900 GitHub stars, ZincSearch is backed by Nexus Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and others. For more information, visit https://zincsearch.com

Nexus Venture Partners is a leading early-stage venture capital firm partnering with extraordinary entrepreneurs building product-first companies. With $2 billion under management, Nexus operates as one team across the US and India. Nexus portfolio includes Apollo.io, Aryaka, Clover Health, Delhivery, Druva, FingerprintJS, Hasura, H2O.ai, Infra Market, Kaltura, Mezi, MinIO, Observe.ai, Postman, Pubmatic, Quizizz, Rancher, Sibros, TileDB, Turtlemint, Unacademy, WhitehatJr, Zepto, and Zomato. For more information, visit www.nexusvp.com or follow @nexusvp on Twitter.

Dell Technologies Capital is the global venture capital investment arm of Dell Technologies. The DTC investment team backs passionate early-stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for enterprises. Investing at a pace in excess of $200M per year, the team has backed more than 130 startups with notable investments in companies including Arista Networks, Cylance, Docusign, Graphcore, Humio, JFrog, Minio, MongoDB, Netskope, Nutanix, Nuvia, Redis, RedLock, Twistlock, Xometry and Zscaler.. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, DTC also has offices in Boston and Israel. For more information, visit www.delltechnologiescapital.com.

How Search Engine Marketing Helps Your Business

You may have heard of Search Engine Marketing and wondered how it can help your business. The technique is also known as SEM and is related to SEO. Another common term that people use when talking about SEM is “paid search”, and this name illustrates how it differs to SEO perfectly.

If you want to learn more about how to start your own SEM business you can check out the official training course by Aidan Booth and Steve Clayton called Parallel Profits here: https://theparallelprofits.com/

What are SEM, CPC, and PPC?

SEO concentrates on getting visitors to your site (and hopefully new customers) through organic means, like ensuring the site and its content really meet their needs, that the website is easy to use, and that people are talking positively about your business online. When you use SEM, however, you pay search engines to position your business higher in search rankings - the results page you see when you search for something online.

When talking about SEM, you’ll also hear terms like CPC and PPC. These mean “cost per click” and “pay per click”, respectively because this is how a customer will pay for their search engine marketing - by paying for the number of clicks one of their ads get. Like SEO, the ads that you make or provide for SEM should be based around a keyword that is highly relevant to your business.

How is SEM different to SEO?

The main reason that people choose SEM over SEO is because SEO, although effective, takes more skill to implement and longer to see results. By paying for your search engine marketing, you can boost the speed with which your business will turn up in the search results page, as well as being specific about the keywords you appear for. With SEO, you sort of just have to cross your fingers and hope for the best!

Bonus Tip : Influencer marketing is also good for natural link building which comes under social media marketing, the one of most sought after digital marketing strategies nowadays.

How do you pay for your ads?

In order to use SEM, you must create ads and then pay the major search engines, like Google and Bing, to display them for searches containing the keywords you’ve chosen. Although creating ads sounds complicated, these search engines make it very, very easy for even a total beginner to start running an ad. Everything from designing the ad visuals, to writing the copy, picking the keywords, and financing your ads is very straightforward.

When it comes to paying for these ads, SEM usually works on a principle of credit - you buy credit, as you might for a mobile telephone and the ads run to your specifications until that credit runs out. You change how quickly you run through that credit by things like the number of ads, the size of the audiences you’re trying to reach, and the popularity of the keywords you have chosen.

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Is SEM right for all businesses?

For most businesses, a combination of SEM and SEO will produce the best results. There are some occasions, however, when a carefully-planned SEM campaign can be really effective. Think about SEM when you need to give SEO a boost, when you need to power-up a specific promotion or new offer, or as a way of finding out what keywords can really put in some work for you.

One word of warning, however. Like we said before, SEM is really easy to get started with and seeing your first good results can be intoxicating. More than one paid marketing beginner has invested too much, too soon in their ads, however, and gotten themselves into trouble! It’s very easy to spend too much on paid ads, so keep a calm head on your shoulders and make sure that you see real results before upping that budget!

Six SEO Mistakes You are Making and How to Fix Them

SEO is one of the most rapidly growing fields, gathering attention from developers, digital marketer, content creators and website owners. Ideally, it is hard not to love SEO while tools like Serpbook have already made SEO easy for websites by keeping track of SERP after sustained optimization efforts.

Still, anyone, including SEO experts, can make mistakes in practicing SEO, some dire than others. SEO mistakes can be avoided and fixed, but you must identify which ones you are doing. The following will enlighten you on six common errors and a guide on how you can combat them.

Duplicate content

There are unresolved arguments on whether or not Google penalizes duplicate content, which happens to be a common practice, especially for e-commerce websites. Regardless of whether there is a penalty for duplicate content or not, this SEO mistake could cost you traffic flow and reputation.

Duplicate content represents information that users can find elsewhere online. Why then would people opt for yours? Google and other search engines will rank a piece of work for the original author, and the rest of similar content will be displayed on subsequent pages, even the third or fourth, which is terrible for visibility. It can be fatal if you replicate content already posted by prominent websites.

Instead of falling culprit of this mistake, identify unique niche topics in your industry, otherwise, find newer approaches of writing to address the needs of your audience for the same topic areas. Use SEO tools like Copyscape to find out whether the kind of information you intend to share is replicated on another website online.

Keyword stuffing

Keyword research can go so well that you feel overwhelmed over which keywords to use for your website. The problem comes in when you overuse your identified keywords on a copy, which result in keyword stuffing. Keyword density happens to be an important consideration factor for indexing on search engines as well as to audiences.

The way you use keywords on your website communicates how conversant you are with the industry and how much knowledge you have for the identified topic. To avoid getting your site cluttered with too many keywords, choose long-tail keywords that comprise of 4 or more key phrases, which are more descriptive to capture context and intent. Strategically position your keywords on your web pages, H1, H2, meta tags, among others, to create more room for using your keywords.

Overlooking social signals

Social media is quite a large digital marketing and networking platform that can do amazing things for your website’s SEO. Neglecting social signals blinds you to the fact that social media platforms draw massive traffic for your website.

Consider joining a select of social media platforms, among them, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, all of which should be guided by the unique needs of your brand and your target audience. Be sure to consistently share your content with your social media audience and following through with the conversations to optimize audience engagement.

Neglecting mobile

The world is changing and fast. More and more people are transitioning to mobile because it captures the largest population of the internet users. Mobile technology is advanced to perform most duties like computers would, which is why your neglect of mobile is a mistake that could cost you a potential audience group.

Configure your website to befit a mobile site with all the essential information similar to that displayed on your desktop site. Optimizing your website for mobile ensure that it is easy to navigate, open links and images. Consult mobile themes for your site to best represent the needs of your mobile audience

Blocking critical web pages from Google

Some of the pages of your website contain the most important information that could guide your audience and Google to understand better what your brand is. Blocking critical web pages from Google can be accidental or intentional, but either way, affects how your site ranks on SERP, which is very likely during the redesign of your website.

As a rule of thumb, remember to always remove the ‘no index’ tags from the specific pages you want Google to index. You can achieve this better with the help of an SEO tool like Screaming Frog spider that will identify any blocked pages so you can fix them.

Skipping meta tags and descriptions

Upon sharing your content, there is a snippet used on search results for your page’s URL, which essentially is the meta description. Most website owners have great content that very few people get to consume because the meta descriptions are not luring. Meta descriptions are an excellent spot for using your keywords, which necessitates their use.

Audit your website with SEO tools including Screaming Frog so you can ensure you add and edit the meta descriptions for all your pages and content, very briefly to only capture the most critical information.

Whether or not your mistakes are by omission or commission, intentional and intentional, you can now be careful to avoid them, or better still, fix them.

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Meet 'Shodan' - The Scariest Search (Hacker) Engine On Internet

Bored of your Google search engine? Wanna try something new?Try Shodan, the search engine, the next time you want to search something over the net and you will surely be never be bored again ever in your entire life.

Websites are just one part of the Internet. There are power plants, Smart TVs, refrigerators and much more that can be found with Shodan!

Launched in 2009, this particular search engine has earned the reputation of being called as the scariest search engine on Internet. Named after the villainous computer in the video game System Shock, the search engine is not just like another simple search engine. It's more of a prying eye across the world through the Internet of Things (IoT).

The hacker search engine, as Shodan is commonly called, is the works of the wonder minds of John Matherly. He designed it with an aim of linking all the devices connected to the Internet but fortunately, unfortunately, it became a play zone for hackers and experimenters in no time.

The search engine works by collecting and stacking HTTP addresses from various devices linked over the Internet across the world. The indexing is then done on the basis of categories such as brand, OS and country.

The search engine has excellent scanning powers. So much so that, it can even detect security cameras, power grids, control systems for gas stations, and even the nuclear power plants. These public services need to make extra efforts in increasing their online security as once exposed to hackers or terrorist organizations, the results could be very disastrous.

Further, if you have a telnet enabled security camera at your home for the "security" of your family, you might just want to put that camera to rest. Hackers can easily breach into your system if your IoT hub is exposed on the Internet using Shodan. So, for the security of your family, we recommend you to put that security camera right away and think of something else.

Shodan Portal - www.shodan.io

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Meet 'Shodan' - The Scariest Search (Hacker) Engine On Internet

Bored of your Google search engine? Wanna try something new?Try Shodan, the search engine, the next time you want to search something over the net and you will surely be never be bored again ever in your entire life.

Websites are just one part of the Internet. There are power plants, Smart TVs, refrigerators and much more that can be found with Shodan!

Launched in 2009, this particular search engine has earned the reputation of being called as the scariest search engine on Internet. Named after the villainous computer in the video game System Shock, the search engine is not just like another simple search engine. It's more of a prying eye across the world through the Internet of Things (IoT).

The hacker search engine, as Shodan is commonly called, is the works of the wonder minds of John Matherly. He designed it with an aim of linking all the devices connected to the Internet but fortunately, unfortunately, it became a play zone for hackers and experimenters in no time.

The search engine works by collecting and stacking HTTP addresses from various devices linked over the Internet across the world. The indexing is then done on the basis of categories such as brand, OS and country.

The search engine has excellent scanning powers. So much so that, it can even detect security cameras, power grids, control systems for gas stations, and even the nuclear power plants. These public services need to make extra efforts in increasing their online security as once exposed to hackers or terrorist organizations, the results could be very disastrous.

Further, if you have a telnet enabled security camera at your home for the "security" of your family, you might just want to put that camera to rest. Hackers can easily breach into your system if your IoT hub is exposed on the Internet using Shodan. So, for the security of your family, we recommend you to put that security camera right away and think of something else.

Shodan Portal - www.shodan.io

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Quixey is a new search engine for finding apps

Nowadays numerous mobile applications are being launched with every passing hour. The apps backed by great marketing and company are able to find their foot in the market easily but the other smaller ones end up losing themselves in the sea. Quixey is here to solve this problem. It is a search engine which lets you find apps according to your needs.

Quixey is capable of running mobile searches and show results straight from the apps. It even shows the results from the apps that are not even installed in your Smartphone. The company believes that it’s this feature of deep searches will make it an instant hit with the Smartphone users.

Let us assume that you search for Chinese restaurants on Quixey, it will not only show up with a list of Chinese restaurants but also make full use of all restaurants search apps to show information like table or reservation availability and even the food and ambience ratings of the restaurants. Quixey makes it users available with real time information and not just links.

According to Liron Shapira, who is one of the co-founders of the California-based company, nowadays the way people interact with the third party apps is broken. At Quixey, the vision is to put a search bar on every device as according to them a search bar will allow the user to make better use of third party apps.  Quixey has an aim of lowering the borders and making apps comfortable to use for the general public.

Quixey functions the same way as Google but it only involves apps results. Like a search engines helps the user to find the most relevant content within websites, in a very similar way Quixey helps the user find most relevant content within apps.

Quixey is starting by constructing a fully automated system that can access the data inside an app when you run a search query. It is based on the same lines of how robots.txt shows webpages in today’s web search.  Developers need to adjust the code in their apps if they want to make their apps searchable on the search engine. Quixey can’t have an access to the data of the app unless the developer of the app grants it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quixey is a new search engine for finding apps

Nowadays numerous mobile applications are being launched with every passing hour. The apps backed by great marketing and company are able to find their foot in the market easily but the other smaller ones end up losing themselves in the sea. Quixey is here to solve this problem. It is a search engine which lets you find apps according to your needs.

Quixey is capable of running mobile searches and show results straight from the apps. It even shows the results from the apps that are not even installed in your Smartphone. The company believes that it’s this feature of deep searches will make it an instant hit with the Smartphone users.

Let us assume that you search for Chinese restaurants on Quixey, it will not only show up with a list of Chinese restaurants but also make full use of all restaurants search apps to show information like table or reservation availability and even the food and ambience ratings of the restaurants. Quixey makes it users available with real time information and not just links.

According to Liron Shapira, who is one of the co-founders of the California-based company, nowadays the way people interact with the third party apps is broken. At Quixey, the vision is to put a search bar on every device as according to them a search bar will allow the user to make better use of third party apps.  Quixey has an aim of lowering the borders and making apps comfortable to use for the general public.

Quixey functions the same way as Google but it only involves apps results. Like a search engines helps the user to find the most relevant content within websites, in a very similar way Quixey helps the user find most relevant content within apps.

Quixey is starting by constructing a fully automated system that can access the data inside an app when you run a search query. It is based on the same lines of how robots.txt shows webpages in today’s web search.  Developers need to adjust the code in their apps if they want to make their apps searchable on the search engine. Quixey can’t have an access to the data of the app unless the developer of the app grants it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LisTopTen: Search Top 10 of Everything

LisTopTen is a new search engine for niche market, helping people to search Top10 results of everything created by everyone. Listopten helps you to find Top-10 results based on real people opinion on anything you search online and top 10 could be anything like movies, app, gadgets, cars, restaurant etc.

Listopten is concept of building a crowd sourced Top 10 of everything so that you can check user rated Top 10 things before making a decision of buying a product, watching a movie etc. such as - Top 10 Best E-Commerce Companies in India, Top 10 Best selling smartphones, Top 10 Horror movies of all time etc.

The portal is indeed useful in many ways instead searching for google one can directly search the top, the search feature of Listopten.com is also pretty good as it suggest the desired results as you type and saves lot of time to search top 10/ 10-best of  'anything'.

Listopten also helps to generate free traffic for businesses/websites from the Top 10 lists, as a free marketing tool for all business units they can create Top 10 lists and generate free traffic from our website. For example and e-commerce company can prepare a list of top 10 products it's selling, in this case the companies participating are Infibeam.com, Career Launcher, carnation.in, snapdeal.com,startupranking.com etc

Thus Listopten is providing free marketing tool for all business units to create Top 10 lists and generate free traffic from their website.

Features of Listopten portal are: Top-10 - Aggregate all Top 10 opinions of a topic and help you to discover the best 10 which as per users. My Version - i.e Make your version of crowd sourced Top 10 and help your friends and others discover your Top 10 opinions. User Reviews let you discover and share reviews on favorite items in the list. Reliability Ratings  - helps discover Top 10 list as per ratings given by other users and rate your favorite list to help others understand quality of list.



How is Top-10 list beneficial for any business?

• Help you to create free lists of Top 10 items across various category and sub categories. (Eg Top 10 Android phones under Rs 15000, Top 10 Puma T-shirts .. etc )


• Allow to add media (images or videos) to your items in one click. (Choose from already uploaded media)


• Add URL to your items to generate free relevant traffic at your website.

How did this business idea emerge?

We (founders) were sitting back at home and searching for best android phones to buy and landed on e-commerce and few review sites but they could not help to understand which one is the best among all available options. Therefore we thought there should be a site which should only show public generated results of Top 10 items in all categories so that we don’t get lost in 5000+ results coming out of Google search.

Where did your capital come from and who funded you?

Currently we are self-funded and looking for angel investors who can support us building a long-term sustainable product to serve the people searching for Top 10 things online.

What are current and future revenue models?

Few current advertising sources:

• Home page featured Top 10:


• Banner Advertisement:


• Relevant search result banner adds:

We are not looking confine ourselves making money only by traditional banner advertisements in long run. We are working on mass monetization program by which we will act as a commission agent and pass on some part of advertisement revenue to the list owners as well.

What are the future plans for Listopten.com?

We are currently focusing on building product and providing traffic to our e-commerce clients like carnation.in, snapdeal.com, infibeam.com etc. and providing an engaging platform to the users.

We are working on monetization of list and users creating Top 10 list will be given monetary advantages as per popularity if his lists.

Biggest challenges so far?

We are a small team working on a huge project which require huge data maintenance and client and user engagements on and off site.

Founding Team:

 

Hitesh Sharma (Co-founder): College dropout and former founding member of a VC funded e-commerce start-up in India, He faced a problem of finding best things online and joined hands with Amit to execute the same. Hitesh hails from a Maarwari business family in Assam and keeps deep business know how.

Amit Mehta (Co-founder): Amit kumar is a MBA graduate who quit his well settled job to get into this venture with Hitesh. Amit follows one principle in life " Move fast or die" and has vision to take this company at a height in quickest possible time. He hails from a business family in Varanasi. Amit keeps deep knowledge in the field of marketing and user engagements, he is also an artist by hobby.

Prashant Singh (Co-founder): Prashant is MCA with 5 years of experience in various companies like yellow pages and matrimony sites. He always had a dream of working at his own venture and creating some value with his skills and finally took risk and quit is job to join hands with Hitesh and Amit for a plunge into Entrepreneurship.

Google Can Now better Understand your Queries with Metaweb

To understand the web even better and provide users with richer search experience, Google has acquired yet another startup “Metaweb” to help build smarter and more connected Internet. Today, Google on its blog declared that the acquisition is to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone. With this acquisition, it can quickly deliver you relevant information right on its search page.



Metaweb Technologies was founded in 2005, to make the internet more connected. Let’s hear from the company in their own words about their work.

“We have been building the platform and populating the data for our content integration network, which enables site owners, publishers and developers to easily and intelligently add content from across the Web.

We do this by utilizing our large, open database of things in the world. Metaweb has information on over 11 million things, including movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies and more. In this way, we provide site owners with a seamless way to access third party content from leading sources like New York Times, Twitter, Rotten Tomatoes, Hulu, and a wide range of others. ”

Metaweb Subsidiary Freebase is also now joining Google. Freebase is community-supported open database i.e. it’s the open repository of world’s knowledge. Freebase is quite like Wikipedia, where people can contribute and use data. However, the difference is that Freebase is more like repository of structured data which can also be read by software’s.

At the end, it is quite clear that this move of Google is to further enhance its search. Metaweb’s repository of tagged data will boost the search results of Google. Freebase will be maintained same as free and open database and Google will contribute in its further development to make the web richer. Metaweb will not entertain any new partners but continue to support existing ones.

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Google Search Now More Secured Search with SSL (https)

Google from today onwards will provide more secured search with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption that is now once can have more secure connection if they go to Google via URL - https://www.google.com.

What it means to you ?

With 'https://' before www.google.com you have more secured and encrypted connection with Google servers and have more security of what you search, search terms and search activity being misused or intercepted by any one including your ISP or any third party on your network. The service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL.

Search Experience

As the new SSL secured Google search is still in Beta stage, one might have different search experience when browsing with SSL secured Google search, that includes - slightly slower lower search than the regular one, modified Google logo, Google Image search and Google Maps not supported with SSL as yet so you wont see the same in "left panel/sidebar" (as per the new Google design).

This is one major appreciated step of Google towards it main product i.e. Google Search to provide its users more online privacy and security to billions of searchers around the world. However, this security only hides users data from third parties who seek it but Google will continue to store the search terms/ data in Google servers to improve search results and its quality.

Google Now Lets you Search beneath that 'Information Overload'

You might heard about Google Squared technology that we described in 10 Unknown Google Search, now its not so uncommon anymore as Google has brought this 'structured from unstructured data' technology into regular web search also.

Lest say you need to know who is prime minister of india or say sachin tendulkar's birthday Google regular search will now show accurate answers right at the top of your results, sourced from across the web using its own Squared technology.

Noticeably it takes a lot of computing power to dig that search out of unstructured, fragmented and redundant information as data spilled all across the web.

Google Squared which is still in labs has been an early attempt from Google to find and extract structured data from unstructured data or say information overloaded all across the web.

Along with these new things Google now also shows more enhancement called - "Something Different" which is also powered by same Squared technology that bring out new features to the search results page in terms of  related searches. For example - when you search on Google, you’ll see a new section at the bottom of the left-hand panel which contains related search terms. For example, search for 'zebra' (without quotes) and you’ll see other related searches such as 'giraffes', 'elephants' and 'hippos'.

10 Google Search You might not Know About

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 filetype: 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

Google Squared -

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.

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Google Accessible Search

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