There’s another new search tool hitting the Intertubes. This one is called Spezify and it’s out of Stockholm, Sweden. The search is straight forward, put in your search term or phrase and hit enter. The change is how the information is displayed to you visually.

As you can see from the screen shot above after searching for my online persona, "Bnpositive" the results are hitting from my twitter updates, Tumblr, blog posts, flickr images and a variety of other sources. It’s all presented in a flowing collage of data that you can either use the scroll bars at the bottom and right of the screen, or you can click in the screen and drag the screen around to see more results.

The other nice feature is that along the top of the search there’s a list of related words or terms related to your search. You can quickly expand your search and find a variety of outlets for finding more and more things of interest to you based on your original search.

You can also fine tune your search results by turning off/on various sites and content types within your search. For instance if twitter overwhelms your results, you can turn twitter off in the search to suppress those results from your visual display.

Sometimes you need to see data in a different perspective and Spezify provides a great and visually appealing presentation of search results.

Viewzi has been around now for quite awhile but for whatever reason I’m just now getting around to really talking about it on the website. It’s a vastly different way to see and review your search results, but it’s one of those areas for me where I’m not sure if it will really replace Google as my main search engine of choice.

Snagit of Viewzi Search Results Page

You can choose to show your search results as simple text or as a collection of thumbnails as I’ve shown above after a quick search for b5media.

You can further simplify and organize your results.

Give Viewzi a try it may be exactly what you’ve been looking for, for as Google is a simple display of information, Viewzi provides a very graphical display of your search results which can be very helpful depending on your circumstances and needs at the time.

Cuil.com brings another search player into town to do battle with the existing sites that we’re all already familiar.

It used to be that Google was the king of simple design and layout but Cuil.com makes Google’s homepage look more like a cramped portal site with more items there to distract you from what you’re really there to do… search!

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

Big talk from the new guy, but in my brief experience of playing around with the site so far, they’re delivering on their expectations and doing it in a nice layout and style.

I really like the multi-column layout view and potentially pertinent image thumbnails to help you decide about the search results. I don’t expect it to last long, but I also like the page devoid from advertisements and sponsored search results.

What’s been your experience with Cuil.com? Have you uncovered anything new with Cuil.com since you’ve been using it? What do you think about their accuracy and relevance to what you’re searching for online?

Let us know.

www.cuil.com

Jake just let me know about a new site called Scour that lets you search the web like you normally would but adds a few different things to the mix:

• Get results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN all together
• Rate search results instantly
• Get rewarded by searching with Scour

Why does it seem to be so hard for me to think about using any search engine other than Google as my default? I’m sure that’s exactly what Google is wanting me to think though isn’t it?

I like the concept, but one thing I immediately noticed that I don’t like is that this is the URL you get when you click on the results to a link:

http://www.scour.com/view/result/?URL=http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/

The reason is because there’s a little comment bar on the bottom of the page that let’s you rate the page and give more information back to Scour about what you think. You can click on the “X” to close it, but that’s annoying to me. Not sure how else you’ll get the feedback they’re wanting though.

The idea of making some money for doing what we’re already doing by searching the Internet. According to their site, here’s the type of money you could potentially be making with getting more people to sign-up under you and get a little kick back from their search results too.

Give Scour a try and sign-up now for their beta. Of course I’d love for you to sign-up under me so just click on one of the links above and sign-up. If I make enough money to retire on a private island in the Caribbean, I’ll let you know.

Dogpile has a little fun promotion going on right now where you can send a little bit of a humorous spoof e-mail to your friends on April Fool’s Day this year.

As you can see from the graphic above there are a number of different messages and jokes you can send with their tool.

Another nice little benefit of this fun little promotion is that you can go there now and setup the messages to be delivered for you on April Fool’s Day!

Just look for the doggy to dig up some April Fool’s Day fun.

If you’re not familiar with Dogpile, it’s a search engine that piles all the results of Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Search, and Ask for the results.

Go uncover more from your own search results by using Dogpile.

Have you ever been searching around the internet, or Googling for that little bit of information that you just can’t find the right answer for online? Or maybe you’re really wanting to get the information from someone you’d pretty much qualify as an expert.

Squidoo foots the bill on all counts.

I’ve been using Squidoo for awhile now, I actually got in on some of the initial beta release of testing it out and getting my “lens” established. The only problem is that life crowded out the amount of time I spent on my own lenses, but I keep going back to the site to search for other information when I’m looking for that specialized tidbit of information.

We have built a new online platform and community that makes it easy for anyone to build a single page–called a lens–on a topic, idea, product or cause he is passionate about. These lenses in turn help finders get unique, human perspectives instead of computer-selected and often irrelevant search results. Not only can Lensmasters spread their ideas, get recognized for their knowledge, and send more traffic to their Web sites and blogs—they could also earn royalties.

Squidoo is kind of a brain child of the poster child for marketing nowadays (at least in my opinion since I like his thoughts and methods), Seth Godin.

Squidoo was started by the Original Squid, Seth Godin. Nearly ten years ago, Seth founded Yoyodyne, which originated the idea of permission marketing online. After Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo, he served as VP Direct Marketing for Yahoo for about a year. In 2000, Godin focused full-time on his career as an acclaimed public speaker, an author and a blogger. Seven of Seth’s books have been bestsellers somewhere around the world, and his blog has been picked as the best business blog by several leading publications. Seth’s head is the most recognizable author icon in business. Yes, his head.

Ever wish you could quickly search a specific list of websites for that little bit of information you might need? For instance, what if you could search all the different alumni type sites for the name of the girl that sat next to you in the 3rd grade?

Or, you can’t figure out the little bit of code you need for that ASP.NET application you’ve been working on for the past 36 hours straight while chugging Starbuck’s Venti Chai Tea Latte’s?

Rollyo is the site you’ve been waiting for in the realm of search. Sure Google’s good, but sometimes you’d like to narrow down your search to a handful of sites, not the entire history of the web and every site you can think of between here and there.

If you’ve used them in the past, it may be time to check them out again. They’ve updated their features.

==THE ROLLBAR==
Our new RollBar bookmarklet lets you search whatever site you’re on with one click of a bookmark! You can always get fresh, relevant results from the same spot on your browser every time. The RollBar also let’s you use your Searchrolls and create or add sites to existing Searchrolls on they fly. We think it’s pretty fantastic, and we’re not alone…

==BLOG SEARCH==
You now get fresh results from your own list of constantly updated blogs, rolled right in to your regular Rollyo results. Stay up to date, up to the second with blog results, from only the sources you want!

==NEW LOOK==
An innovative new layout makes it easier to access Searchrolls right from the home page. You can manage which rolls show on the page in our new DASHBOARD section, where you can also pick from over 40 other starter engines, and control all other aspects of your Rollyo experience.