There are a lot of search engines out there besides Google, Bing and Yahoo. The ones we are featuring today are niche search engines – they have limited usability – but they’re a lot a fun. And they’re useful too if their specialty is what you’re looking for.
#1. Dead Cell Zones (USA and UK)
Dead Cell Zones offers a searchable map of user-reported dead cellular zones. Can you hear me there? The search engine U.S. dead spots that have been reported by users of AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and several smaller carriers. The site they have had more than 100,000 submissions from users. If you’re in the UK you can get maps of your cellular dead zones at www.deadcellzones.com/uk.html .
#2. Soda Finder
Would you drink a bottle of soda that hasn’t been made in 40 yeas? Me either. But still, some people don’t really care how old it is – they’ll drink it. Soda doesn’t get better with age like wine, does i?
To heck with expiration dates. Soda Finder is fun to browse and search. It’s also an online store that offers a search engine to help you find old, rare, and/or discontinued soda pop. The site does warn you about drinking these old products. I wasn’t there to buy – I was there for a whiff of nostalgia. So drink up – some of the soda is fresh! Visit www.sodafinder.com – the site and search engine with pop.
#3. TypoBuddy
The world is full of bad spellers. Even with spell checkers bad spellers abound. (No wise cracks!). If you’re searching for bargains online you can take advantage of the poor folks who cannot spell and will not use a spell checker, by using TypoBuddy.
TypoBuddy is a search engine that searches eBay and Craigslist for misspellings. If you type “laptop” (spelled correctly) into TypoBuddy’s search box, and it gives you links to most of the common misspellings of “laptop” like “lpatop, loptap, lapotp, laaptop, latop”. So some poor soul trying to sell a Dell loptap for $500 – gets no customers because loptap doesn’t show up in eBay’s search engine. But it does in TypoBuddy’s search results. You might just get that loptap of your dreams for a hundred bucks. Shame on you for capitalizing on a poor, helpless, poor speller. You don’t care? Neither do I . There are spellcheckers, you know. Try TypoBuddy right now – and capitalize on someone’s poor spelling :-).
Dead Cell Zones….This one is great. If you’re looking for a new cell phone carrier, for whatever the reason, you don’t have to rely totally on exaggerated promises of their respective advertising mumbo jumbo. Love reading user problems and comments. Wi-Fi dead spots are provided, too.
SodaFinder – gave up soda years ago for “budget” reasons. Turns out the best thing I ever did for my health beyond the just feeling better.
TypoBuddy – Great idea. Hmm – I’m thinking this might ALSO be useful for somebody selling (not just buying) some product or service and looking for “keywords” for their ads. Look it up here, and consider those results to use for your own purposes. I know there’s software that does that for the marketing gurus, but this might help the guys that don’t place ads often or don’t market a lot of different items. A “missspelled”, er “misspelled”, er “missspelt” (or whatever it is) word or two used as a “keyword” might make a difference in a sale or nobody finding your ad. Well, that’s the whole point anyway, except in my case YOU are the seller hoping the “misspeller?” can find YOUR ad.
A PS to my post. Maybe you don’t know what a “keyword” is. If you’re selling or just posting something you hope others will find, and doing it on the internet, you should find out if “keywords” would be accepted, required, appropriate or useful. TC and EB use them. Well as simple as I can explain, it’s a word you might type in the search engine window when you’re trying to find something. Many people searching for the same thing as you, might be typing in totally different words. So, whoever PLACED that “whatever” on the internet has to guess how many different words people might search with to find that same thing. Hence, a string of “keywords”.