Artcyclopedia

Artcyclopedia is an online database of museum-quality fine art founded by Canadian John Malyon. The Artcyclopedia only deals with art that can be viewed online, and indexes 2,300 art sites (from museums and galleries), with links to around 180,000 artworks by 8,500 renowned artists. The site has also started to compile a list of art galleries and auction houses.

BizShark

BizShark is an Internet business search engine and web directory specially designed for competitor analysis, marketing research, business development, and other business processes. BizShark aggregates the latest business profiles, news, financials, competitive landscape, web analytics, social footprint, marketing strategies, execute contacts, and other business information across more than fifty online and offline databases.

Blinkx

Blinkx (London AIM:BLNX.L) is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media such as Internet television and video on demand. Blinkx’s video search engine differs by using speech recognition to listen to the audio component of the video content, and then uses both the phonetic and text transcripts to match content with search queries. Blinkx also indexes and searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 35 million hours indexed (almost 4,000 years) and agreements with over 450 content companies.

CastTV

CastTV is an Internet video search and aggregation company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati. Services include a video search engine and the licensing of video search technology to media companies.

CastTV's search index incorporates both popular and longtail content, including TV shows, movies, celebrity, news, sports and viral videos. The company filters out expired videos, duplicate videos and video spam.

Dabble

Dabble Video Search is a video search service located at www.dabble.com. Dabble uses human powered search.

Dabble takes human-made gestures and structured metadata to search and discover video. It searches the data around the video as well as gives relevance to videos with human preference activity inside Dabble and outside in other communities and blogs. Dabble also has a social community for grouping videos and for user-made programming. Dabble focuses on the additional problem of video discovery through this community, by offering users easy ways to browse videos based upon human activity and preferences. Dabble searches over 600 sources of videos (sometimes known as content hosters of video) and has 150+ partnerships.

eTBLAST

eTBLAST is a text similarity search engine currently offering access to the MEDLINE database, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) CRISP database, the Institute of Physics (IOP) database, and the NASA technical reports database. It is continuously expanding with additional text-based databases. The eTBLAST server compares a user's natural text query to target databases using a hybrid search algorithm consisting of a low-sensitivity weighted keyword-based first pass followed by a novel sentence-alignment based second pass. eTBLAST is a free web-based service of The Innovation Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.

eTBLAST, as a text similarity engine, made possible a large study of duplicate publications and potential plagiarisms in the biomedical literature. Thousands of random samples of Medline abstracts were submitted to eTBLAST, and those with the highest similarity were studied and entered into a on-line database. This study is on-going, with the database maturing as the entries are manually inspected and classified. This work revealed several trends, including an increasing rate of duplication in the biomedical literature, as reported in the journals Bioinformatics, Nature, and Science.

GlobalSpec

GlobalSpec, Inc. is a technology services company which provides a search engine of engineering and industrial products, indexing over 180 million parts divided into 2,300,000 product families, from over 24,000 manufacturer and distributor catalogs. GlobalSpec is a domain-specific (or "vertical search") tool, in that its focused domain allows for optimized results. Within product families, searches can be narrowed by selecting values for parameters that are specific to that product type.

HubMed

HubMed is an alternative, third-party interface to PubMed, the database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine. Features include relevance-ranked search results, web feeds of query updates, direct citation export, tagging and graphical display of related articles.

Information Hyperlinked over Proteins

Information Hyperlinked over Proteins (or iHOP) is an online service that provides a gene-guided network to access PubMed abstracts. By using genes and proteins as hyperlinks between sentences and abstracts, the information in PubMed can be converted into one navigable resource. Navigating across interrelated sentences within this network rather than the use of conventional keyword searches allows for stepwise and controlled acquisition of information. Moreover, this literature network can be superimposed upon experimental interaction data to facilitate the simultaneous analysis of novel and existing knowledge. The network presented in iHOP currently contains 12 million sentences and 80000 genes from over 1,500 organisms, including Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Danio rerio, Arabidopsis thaliana, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli.

The system was published in Nature Genetics 36, 664 (2004) as 'A gene network for navigating the literature'.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw is an online business directory of companies and business professionals that is built, maintained and accessed by a worldwide community of over a million subscribers. A comprehensive database allows members to exchange and share the business information of more than 18 million contacts from over 3.5 million companies.

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is a free Web site that provides consumer health information for patients, families, and health care providers. MedlinePlus brings together quality information from the United States National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other U.S. government agencies, and health-related organizations. The U.S. National Library of Medicine produces and maintains MedlinePlus.

MedlinePlus launched in 1998, providing the public with access to a selective and reliable collection of consumer health information on the Web. The site is updated daily. Materials in MedlinePlus must meet rigorous quality guidelines before they appear on the site. There is no advertising on the site, and MedlinePlus does not endorse companies or products.

National Agricultural Safety Database

The National Ag Safety Database (NASD) was developed with funding from the United States National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the USDA Cooperative Extension Service (CES). The information contained in NASD was contributed by safety professionals and organizations from across the United States. Specifically, the objectives of the NASD project are: 1) to provide a national resource for the dissemination of information; 2) to educate workers and managers about occupational hazards associated with agriculture-related injuries, deaths and illnesses; 3) to provide prevention information; 4) to promote the consideration of safety and health issues in agricultural operations; and 5) to provide a convenient way for members of the agricultural safety and health community to share educational and research materials with their colleagues.

In October 1993, NIOSH provided funding through its Agricultural Health Promotion System (AHPS) grant program to develop the first NASD. The database was developed at the University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service. In October 1996, NIOSH funded a three-year program to update the database and convert the database into HTML format for delivery on the World-Wide Web. By October 1997, the entire database had been converted, a web-site was established.

Pubget

Pubget is a biomedicine search engine similar to PubMed, the database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine.

Pubget differs from similar search engines chiefly in how results are displayed. While PubMed is principally an abstract browser, Pubget is a PDF browser: the pages that Pubget returns display the PDFs directly, wherever they are available to the viewer.

Availability of PDFs depends on whether or not the viewer has subscription access to view them, for example through the research library at a university, hospital, or biotechnology/pharmaceutical company with which the viewer is affiliated. Currently about 75 such institutions are supported.

Viewers with no subscription access can view open access publications and limit the display of results to only those publications.

PubMed

PubMed is a free database accessing the MEDLINE database of citations, abstracts and some full text articles on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) maintains PubMed as part of the Entrez information retrieval system.

Redlasso

Redlasso is a unique on-line broadcast media center, with patent pending technology that allows users to search, clip, and instantly post and share licensed national and local, television and radio content to news focused web sites via the Redlasso media player. Redlasso provides a new strategy for broadcasters and professional content owners to monetize, extend the life of, and enhance the on-line distribution of their most perishable content. Redlasso also offers subscription based B2B solutions and services including custom media centers, media monitoring and white label publishing solutions.

Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries are the art and architecture research collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The libraries cover all periods with extensive holdings in the areas of 18th, 19th and 20th century architecture and 19th century painting, prints, drawings, and decorative arts. A variety of materials important to scholarly research includes architects' diaries, correspondence, job files, photographs, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, articles, transcripts, and personal papers. The complete collection of Bruce Goff artifacts is housed within the libraries. The Director of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries is Jack Perry Brown.

SLI Systems

SLI Systems is an internet company specializing in site search for large content based e-commerce websites. Their solutions learn from the users search behavior. The acronym part of their name stands for Search, Learn and Improve. SLI was founded in 2001 by both New Zealanders and Americans.

SLI’s main product, Learning Search, is not based on algorithms as many search technologies are, but is determined by learning from visitors’ behavior to return the most relevant and popular search results. Other products offered by SLI include a user-generated search engine optimization (SEO) called Site Champion, and site navigation product called Learning Navigation.

SafetyLit

SafetyLit is a bibliographic database and online update of recently published scholarly research of relevance to those interested in the broad field of injury prevention and safety promotion. Like the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed system, SafetyLit is a free service that is distributed without commercial messages. There are many online literature databases. Most are subscription-based and are available only through a library. Typically, these databases focus on a specific scientific discipline. For example, PubMed has a bio-medicine focus, PsycINFO focuses upon behavioral issues, Compendex on engineering, etc.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) system comprises 20 libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers. SIL's holdings include 1.5 million volumes as well as a wide array of digital resources. The collections focus primarily on science, art, history and culture, and museology. SIL is in the process of intensively analyzing its mission and goals in order to best meet the information and knowledge needs of new generations of users, to strengthen research, and to reach through cyberspace those unable to visit the Museums personally. The SIL Catalog is part of the Smithsonian Research Information System (SIRIS) from which one can search 1.89 million records of text, images, video and sound files from across the SI. In 2008, SIL celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Songza

Songza is a web search engine that finds and plays music files on the internet. It was launched on November 13, 2007. There is no ability to download these files, however. Unlike other streaming services, users explicitly search for individual files to play rather than an automatically-generated playlist they cannot control.

Switchwise

Switchwise.com.au is a utility price comparison website for Australian consumers. The site allows consumers to compare electricity and gas prices offered by 18 energy suppliers across Australia. Consumers can switch their home energy supply to a cheaper provider online. People moving home can also arrange for their power and gas connections through the site.

TOXMAP

TOXMAP is a Geographic information system from the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund Basic Research Programs.

Truveo

Truveo is a search engine for Web video operated by AOL, which based in San Francisco, California. Truveo was founded in 2004 by Timothy Tuttle and Adam Beguelin. Truveo launched its first commercial video search service in September 2005. Truveo was acquired by AOL in January 2006. The name Truveo is a combination of the modern French verb trouver (meaning "to find") and the latin term video (meaning "I see").

In addition to operating its own search engine at truveo.com, Truveo powers video search on hundreds of websites including AOL Video, AOL Search, Microsoft websites, Sports Illustrated, Brightcove, CBS Radio websites, Qwest, CNET Search.com, CSTV, Excite, Flock, Infospace, Kosmix, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Widgetbox, and others.

VADLO

VADLO is a life sciences search engine, privately owned by Life in Research, LLC., based in Illinois, USA. VADLO caters to life sciences and biomedical researchers, educators, students, clinicians and reference librarians. In addition to providing focused search on biology research methods, databases, online tools and software, VADLO is also a resource for powerpoints on biomedical topics, mainly for which, VADLO was named one of the top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008 by AltSearchEngines.

Wego.com

Wego.com (formerly known as Bezurk.com) is a travel search engine based in Singapore. It searches over 100 travel sites, where users compare and book flights, hotels and activities. Wego results are a combination of travel offers from online travel agencies (OTA), consolidators such as HotelClub, Agoda and larger hotel chains.

Founded in 2005 by former executives from Intercontinental Hotels Group, Yahoo!, Priceline and ZUJI, Wego is headquartered in Singapore with local offices in Australia and Hong Kong. As Bezurk, the company was named as one of "31 of the world's hottest international web startups" on Business 2.0 magazine in 2007.

In 2008, News Digital Media, the Australian digital arm of News Limited and part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS), purchased an undisclosed stake in the company. Wego recently launched a partnership with In.com in India and Yahoo in Hong Kong. Wego has also recently partnered with Ebay in South East Asia.

ZoomInfo

The site powers people searches for Amazon’s A9.com and Business Week. ZoomInfo also allows users to collaborate in the construction of its content by contributing information to their own profiles or building new ones where none exists. Their database holds 45 million profiles of business professionals and 5 million company profiles.

The company draws around 4.5 million monthly users and generates circa $12 million in revenue from its fee-based and subscription services.

Zoominfo's competitors are sites such as BoardEx, Spoke (website), Jigsaw,Kompass, implu, InsideView, Hoovers and InfoUSA.