The Paisano® » Search

What About Me?

Techrigy’s SM2 is an excellent search tool that will scour the vast world wide web for any mention of your name or any of your websites or blogs. They offer a free account that allows you to search for up to five keywords or phrases and stores up to 1,000 search results which is excellent. The results are can even be sent to your email account on a daily basis if that’s what you want.

SM2 was designed for PR & marketing professionals but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use the tool for researching your own personal brand. The results will surprise you and teach you a few things too.

Final thoughts: There are a bunch of ways to manually search the web for your name and personal brand such as TweetScan for Twitter or google for your blog, but SM2 provides a powerful search mechanism along with impressive analysis tools including charting with comparisons, demographics, geo-location, sentiment and drill-down reports.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Blogs, Marketing, Search 3 Comments

Create Your Own Google Search Engine

Do you know that you could actually create your very own google search engine that will search only the websites and resources that you specify? Simply go to Google’s Customized Search and create as many unique types of search engines as you want. You can customize the look and feel and even embed the search engine on your own website and invite others to contribute resources for the search engine.

Here’s an example of a search engine that I created and enjoy using a great deal:

Paisano’s Freeware Search Engine

As a freeware junkie, I am always looking for the best freeware tools and utilities, so I’ve stock-piled a great collection of websites that offer freeware. It made sense to build a freeware search engine that would search through only these freeware sites, thus providing valuable and relevant search results every time. It’s also a great time saver because it means you no longer have to visit each and every site to perform your searches! Now you can perform your search from one place. Cool, huh?

Here’s How to do it:

Go to Google’s Customized Search
Login with your google/gmail account (create one if necessary, it’s worth it!)
Click on Create Custom Search Engine
Enter a name for your search engine
Enter a good description
Enter some keywords
Select whether to search just the sites you enter or the entire web or a combination of both.
Enter the websites you want your search engine to use for all searches
Click Next and then Finish to complete the process
Here’s the setup screen

How to Manage Your Search Engines
Here’s how to make changes and manage your search engine

Go to Google’s Customized Search
Click on Manage an Existing Search Engine
You will see all of the search engines that you’ve created
Click on the control panel to make changes such as the look and feel or to add/remove websites, etc.
Here’s what it looks like:

Summation: What search engine can you build today? The possibilities are endless! Think of your niche and field of interest or expertise and create a search engine that serves that need.

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Search Comments