Search, blogging

I have been busy with search this morning. Looking at some interesting up and coming search engines. Mahalo(beta) is a human sorted search engine where someone tweaks all results to be better and give you a better search, in case they don't have enough they default to Google free and paid links. They also said they would give away 100 iPhones at some podcast to the best results, so there is some incentive. I have it as my home page right now as I am kind of intrigued by it. So this morning I was told about Search Wikia which seems to be based on the same human intervention. We have come full circle in this, Yahoo used to be human sorted, then they copied Google and went automated now we are trying to get more relevant results, not more and are back to human sorted search. Both seem to have Ad Sense on them, the biggest, although I am told that there are 10 other options, some pay 85%. I wonder what Ad Sense pays? I will be testing one of them on another bogging platform, one that I am unfamiliar with and want to test, Tumblr. As I mentioned before now that advertising is an option for my blog, I will be updating much more frequently. I am even considering turning a Skype call I have with a friend into a podcast. We are thinking of using GizmoProject since it has its built in record function. Most other TWIT podcasts that I listen to use Skype, which is a more widely available platform, more people have it, in fact I heard on Aug 17 on NPR, in the context of the outage that happend that Thursday Aug 16, that there are now 240 million accounts, I know of people who have duplicate Skype accounts and others who don't use theirs, but I think that Skype could become a verb, like googling already is, according to Wikitionary, not that my FireFox recognizes google as a valid word, it got underlined as an error, but then it didn't even have Firefox in teh dictionary until I added it.

Now to blogging, I will be evaluating WordPress, and Tumblr against Google's Blogger which I am using right now and it is great! Very happy with it. Just found another interesting discussion.