Here are 11 search engines (other than Google) where you can still find exactly what you want...

Technorati

Technorati is by far the best alternative to Google. The 'blog search' allows you to search the hottest blog items, including a list of 'most-linked-to' blogs, a top searches list, as well as movies, music, games and videos that most bloggers link to. It is user-friendly as you can sort results according to timeliness (based on the newest content) or blogs with more inbound links.

Draze MetaSearch

Just like a typical Google page, this site allows you to search results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN quickly. You can choose to view the results from either one of the search engines. There is a 'Peek-a-Boo' feature that gives you page previews so that you do not have to click through unnecessary pages.

Rollyo

stands for Roll Your Own Search Engine. It allows you do category or general searches to get results from the Web or blogs. You may also create your own search engine if you intend to search only specific sites.Rollyo

Clusty

Clusty collects the results from several search engines (excluding Google) and arranges them in clusters to further refine your search. For instance, a search for Sony Vaio returns clusters such as various Sony Vaio model numbers, reviews and prices.

Ask.com

Focusing on "subject-specific popularity", this site is rich in features. It orders results by 'popularity' among pages considered to be experts on the topic of your search. The 'page-preview' and 'editorially selected smart answers' are its best features.

Chacha

At Chacha, you can chat with a real-life professional by submitting your query, and he will return you with results that are customised to your needs and specifications. The service is free and you can have a whole lot of fun.

Scour

Scour aggregates the results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. There is a social element where users can 'vote' the results up or down.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon lets you rate pages and sites that you visit with the thumbs-up/thumbs-down icons in your toolbar. Once it learns your preferences, it becomes better at directing you to the topics you like. You can also add friends to your list. Their preferences will help to further refine your search results. This website is great for finding content that you may not be able to find elsewhere.

Kosmix

This search engine is based on searches by category, including politics, finance, health, travel, autos, video games, etc. It scored better with less-time sensitive issues and search terms. For example, it provided lots of information (prevention, cures and risk factors) on health-related topics.

Can't Find on Google

If you can't get any result for your search query on Google, you may post it here and wait for another user to help you. However, the response-to-post ratio is not very high as there are too many queries. But it is still worth a try if you are desperately looking for something that you can't find on Google.

netTrekker

This site is targeted at schools and students. Each site listed in the search results has been specifically selected by educators whose aim is to ensure safe surfing.

With so many search engines around, I am sure you will be able to find the things you want on the internet. Hope you will find this list useful. All the best! 

The CrystalX Template

This template has a simple but professional looking design, and is originally adapted for Blogspot, from Wordpress. Who says that Blogger blogs can't look neat? Blended with the right Adsense units, heavy content, a few tweaks, and bingo, you have the pro blog layout of your dreams! To install, just download the .XML file from the download page, then upload the same file to the "Edit HTML" section of your Blogger dashboard.

The Connexion Theme

This awesome Blogger template shows a header picture of a skyline and a bridge. Great for blog authors who want their blogs to appear modern and reflect the beauty of city life! To download, just click the "The Connexion Theme" title above and you'll be taken to the download page immediately.

The Daya Earth Template

This is it! This three column template will surely leave you lots of room for links, Google ads, and lots of widgets on your blog! All you have to do is visit the download page, read the instructions there, and have this template incorporated into your blog in minutes! You may need to tweak some settings, though, so make sure you read the comments portion on the download page. The author of this template has answered most of the common questions.

The Minyx Template

This is an amazing, professionaly looking blog template/layout! Now you can use it on your free Blogger account and make your blog look more "legitimate'! The Minyx Template has a Web 2.0 style, customized for heavy content, and leaves you lots of room for your Google ads. The three column style and RSS subscription widget allows you to think and act like a problogger! Visit the download page now for more instructions!

Blogy Web 2.0 Template

Impress your blog subscribers with these simple but neat layout. Do you know that simple, professional themes like this are more attractive to readers? Now you do! And that's precisely the reason why the Blogy Web 2.0 template has been created. This template is great if you intend to add videos, pictures, widgets, feeds, surveys, and many other plug-ins to your blog! You may visit the download page now.

CAUTION: If you have no previous knowledge about downloading and installing blog templates, make sure you do a little research first. Feel free to post questions on this page, or do some research online. If your blog is already well established, be careful about impulsively installing .XML codes for template designs without prior knowledge. Some page elements might get removed and you do not want your blog to be messed up!

Feel free to leave questions on this page. Good luck and have fun!

As information becoming more in demand, it's worth money in terms of affiliation marketing. Blogs with information are starting to behave like a "shop" earning money when people goes into this virtual "shop". As more and more people started to realize that earning by just blogging is possible, more opportunities were created and this industry has been expanding tremendously.

How do you earn by blogging?

There are actually many ways to earn by maintaining a blog or blogs. I can tell you, full time bloggers maintain more than 10 blogs and I will tell you why. As each blog behaves like a "brick and mortar", each possesses individual characteristic and themes. So each of such sites are open to searches upon keywords that are relevant to the sites, which in turn generates traffic. Traffic means visitors directed to your sites from either live links or searches. How to attract visitors would be a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) matter. More sites actually mean more online presences or ground for money making.

Here are some of the simplified ways to earn by blogging:

1. Get Paid to Blog

   Basically, bloggers will blog about various sites introducing their services in the form of review or article. The salient keywords are usually expected to be "linked" and these hyperlinked words are termed as "anchor texts". Example of some get paid to blog sites are Smorty, Blogvertise and Blogitive. A task of such is being paid from $5 - $12. Very lucrative business in terms of the amount of efforts required.

2. Affiliate Marketing

   In a simpler term, you post an advertisement banners, hyper-links or even a pop-up advertisements in your blog waiting to be disseminated to your target visitors. The payments are usually calculated based on PPM, which means pay per 1000 impressions. You get unique impressions by visitors and you get paid. The amount is really little if your blog is unable to bring in massive traffic. Examples of such affiliate-marketing providers are Google Adsense and AdBrite.

3. Referral Marketing

   I am sure many people are aware of sites like Paid to click, Paid to Write and so on. These sites are very lucrative in terms of the amount of money able to be generated just by referring members to join as your down-lines. Having a blog means that you have a chance in this very competitive world of Internet to refer a member to be your down-line. It takes some time if your site is not those, which are able to attract thousands of traffic a day. But referrals will come, but in a slower manner.

How do people make a living out of blogging?

Now you understand what are the ways that bloggers are able to make money, so that makes earning a possibility. Full-time bloggers usually have more than 10 blogs as I had earlier mentioned. They joined as many get paid to blog sites as possible and earn these stable incomes. Concurrently, they are typically expert in SEO applications, which made their blogs relatively popular in terms of traffic counts. With good traffic, it generally means that there will be stable stream of income from Adsense and what have you. With the referrals they have got by aggressive marketing and promoting their pages, more profit can be expected. Most full time bloggers apply the article marketing approach. Article marketing is using article sites or gets paid to write sites to promote their sites or pages. With that article page, it is further promoted with social bookmarking sites that form a strategically Internet marketing loop which is a very effective way to gain visitors to both the article pages and the blogs. With that in mind, page views generated in article pages are also able to generate profit, which really expand the number of income sources for a full time bloggers significantly.

So after going through this article, would you want to blog for a living or take it as just a hobby? It's all up to you at the end of the day.

Blogging can be a terrific source of online income. All you need to get started is a free account at Blogger.com. You need to carefully choose a topic (or niche) for your blog. For example, some bloggers write about weight loss, others write about music, while some others stick to movies. Be creative in choosing the topic or niche of your blog, as it will be a very important asset of your blog viewership in the long

After you setup your blog account, you may start filling your new blog with lots of content. This should start the ball rolling. I recommend that when you start a new blog, place at least five new posts on it immediately, and then you may choose to add more posts on a regular basis.

The most important step is to setup your own Google Adsense account. To do this, go to www.google.com/adsense and then setup your free account. At some point in the free account creation process, Google will ask you to provide the URL/web address of your blog. As soon as you do that, they will "crawl" the content of your blog. If they see that your blog content does not violate the Google terms and conditions, your Adsense application will be approved and you may now start blogging for cash.

How Do Big-Time Bloggers Earn Money?

If your Google Adsense application becomes approved, you may start displaying Google ads on your blog, and when your blog readers and website visitors click those ads, Google will pay you a fraction of the income paid by the advertisers. Sounds easy? Well, think again. In order to be a successful blogger, you need to follow these helpful guidelines:

1. Learn How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

   This means, you must be able to invite more visitors and viewers to your blog page. There are so many blogs created everyday, and yet so many are unnoticed. Learn how to make your blog stand out, and promote it well. (For tips about driving traffic, read my article, "How To Drive More Traffic To Any Website" )



2. Don't Be Lazy

   Add and post new content on your blog on a regular basis. For example, if your blog is about celebrity news, make sure you add recent news thatpeople will want to read. If your last post was made 5 years ago., very few or no one will be interested in your blog.

3. Make Your Blog Come Alive By Using Professional Design Templates

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As soon as you start following the basic blogging tips we just mentioned above, you are ready to employ more advanced blogging tips in the near future, and eventually make more money.

Actually there is another way to promote our post in Triond. And it is much easier and more effective than bookmarking. It is by using feed URL. Feed is some sort of the latest update of your content in certain website or blog. It update automatically whenever you got new contents. If you understand well what it is, you will knew that, this will make all your marketing through the internet much easier than before. So I suggest you use Feed for all your content in all website, blog and others. If you recently read from Triond wordpress site here, you can see that, there is a feed URL to our post in Triond.

For example, I got some pictures uploaded in Triond, when I click at my name which is under the title of the pictures (by ksoleh), it will show all the pictures that I have uploaded. Try click at the Subscribe by RSS there. You will see feed post made by me. Copy the feed URL there and put the URL at RSS submission. You can search RSS submission through Google.

If you can see now, actually you can do a lot with the Feed URL there and make your life much easier than before to tell people about your content in Triond.

Here are some examples:

1. Link the Feed URL at your blog.

    For example in Blogspot, you can add a “Feed” page element at your Blogspot and enter your Triond Feed URL there. Remember, your Picable Feed and your Authspot Feed are different, so you might well want to add two or three page element at your blog to tell everyone about your post in Triond by using the Feed element and your Feed URL there.

2. If you can ask your friend to subscribe by email, it will be better.

    Every time you got new post in Triond, whether it is in Authspot or Picable or Cooknote, your friend will notice your new post. This is very effective if you got so many friends subscribing your Feed URL. Through email. Remember, they have to subscribe each of it, Authspot, Picable and others to receive update of your post in different sites.

3. Thirdly is like in the Instruction above.

   Just submit to as many RSS submission as you can. You can search through Google where to submit the URL Feed.

4. This is the best way.

   If you got Mybloglog, you actually can create a Triond site there and submit your Feed URL there. Who knows, if you got many contacts and friends in Mybloglog, you might well get a lot of visitor to your post in Triond as they would see your recent post through Mybloglog

That's all folks. Till then, keep in touch to my post.

1. Blogger Noob

   This is one of my favorite blogs for making money online. This blog consistently publishes two to four posts a day. Generally they aren't long ongoing posts however they are rich in information. There are also many contests going on here. It seems as though just as one ends, another starts. All prizes are paid for by him with his earnings. These earnings aren't small and you will learn about successful ways of monetizing your site with affiliates and personal ad sales by reading his articles about making money online.

2. Can t Get Rich

   This is another one of my long time subscribed blogs. This blog started out as a blog telling you why you can not make money online. He talks about how to improve your blog, yet in the end his blog is starting to make money. He teaches you the patience you'll need to survive in the blogging world along with many success stories that may give you ideas for your own.

3. Caroline Middlebrooks

   This personal blog is one of the most inspirational ones. This blog isn't meant to make her money, but to tell her readers about her story. To tell about how she quit her job, and is a full time blogger. She informs you of the steps needed to create a successful blog, along with informing you of the different ways she makes money and how you do it. I like this blog because she doesn't hold information to herself. Her goal is to help you.

4. Blogger Unleashed

   This is a very well established blog receiving a high amount of traffic. While he may not have time to respond to your emails asking for help, I can bet he has your question answered in an article. Unlike most blog sites, he has a very neat and well constructed archive making it actually possible to look at older posts. He covers a wide variety of content. Things like monetizing your blog, creating content, getting your site noticed, and many other key pieces of information you'll need to become successful.

5. The University Kid

   This is a rather encouraging blog. It's an extremely successful blog written by a 16 year old. The blog focuses on obtaining RSS Subscribers and how this can help to your blogs monetization. The downside to this site is that I cannot find much of an archive for older posts. If you wish to read his content you will have to page through the older posts which may be helpful if you're not looking for something in particular. Nonetheless this blog is full of useful information about receiving traffic.

6. Tyler Cruz

   Cruz is the blogger of one of the most popular learn to blog sites out there. I tend to stay away from the larger sized blogs simply because once they succeed they no longer strive to provide the useful posts the beginners will write. Tyler is an exception. 1,400 RSS subscribers strong and growing he continues to deliver high quality content about monetizing your blog, and posts that are the most useful to a very beginner blogger. Simply because most of his posts are geared towards getting you a very quick start.

7. Entrepreneurs Journey

   This is a successful blog by a successful blogger. The blogger is named Yaro Starak and he is a professional blogger. He had made over $100,000 blogging in a single year. This is no feat easily accomplished. He gives you useful information about search engine optimization, blog traffic, personal development, and how to earn money using affiliate accounts. This may not help you on your blog during your first few weeks, but once your blog gets a good start, this blog will help improve every aspect of blogging.

Blogging is not an easy task. You must satisfy your audience with high quality posts on a frequent basis. If you cannot do this, blogging may not be for you. The most popular RSS Subscriber would be Google's. Simply sign up for a free iGoogle account and you will be able to display your feed on your Google homepage. This will allow you to check for new articles every time you sign on. I'm always looking for new blogs; if you can recommend any new ones for me they'd be much appreciated.

Diaries are no longer those small secret books that you stash under your mattress, and then threaten to break all your brother's G.I. Joe's for reading. They are online things, available for almost anyone to read. Or no one. It all depends on how much you feel like sharing with the world at large.

One of the most famous is, of course, MySpace. MySpace is a notorious name, due to news events that have brought to light a darker side of the internet. However, they aren't the only ones. Oh no! There are quite a few more. In fact, if you've done any web surfing at all, you probably stumbled across one, even if you didn't realize what it was. LiveJournal (also called LJ), GreatestJournal (GJ), Xanga and BlogSpot are, along with MySpace, some of the biggest ones. But there are even more. InsaneJournal, JournalFen, the list goes on and on and on.

They are all a part of something called "open source code." Meaning that anyone, anyone at all, can get their base code, take it, and start up their own blogging sites. I know that that is JournalFen was created, as well as GreatestJournal.

Now, these "blogs" are customizable. Everything from a background image, to something called a "mood theme", literally a small representation of "how you're feeling", to what font you use can be changed. And they can be changed as often as the "blogger", the writer, chooses. Some are eye-searingly bad. Some are works of art in themselves. Some people even offer "style creation services." Meaning they will create a background, mood theme, font colour, and header image, according to what the asker wants. Now, this usually goes hand in hand with an exchange of some sort, but never involves money.

Seems a bit harmless doesn't it? People, sharing their thoughts, hopes, dreams, and fears, across pixelated pieces of text around the world. It'll bring the world closer as a whole.

For some this is true. Support groups for everything from eating disorder recovery, to child abuse recovery, to gambling addiction range far and wide across the internet in many, many different languages. There are tips on surviving divorce, or on how to get out from under credit card debt, or even on how to live "greener" without all the chemicals, and pollutants so prevalent in our world today.

And blogging sites make it possible for all these different kinds of people to get together from all the corners of the globe, without leaving their living rooms, commiserate with each other and then move on. All with the anonymity of a fake name, and an icon, a small picture used to represent the user.

Of course, there is a darker side. Paedophiles, rapists, and even worse sometimes stalk these sites looking for their next victims. They are, regrettably, a part of our worldwide society. There are procedures in place to protect minors and others from them, but there are cracks through which they can fall.

There is, however, one other group that needs an introduction, because, again with the help of the internet and these blogging sites, they have found each other, across oceans, and trade fictional stories, photos, icons, art, and thoughts on every single aspect of books, comics, television, movies, and more.

They are, collectively, fandom.

"Fandom" is the only word that can describe any of them. There are artists, writers, icon makers, analysts and more. They take characters from any type of media and draw pictures of them, write stories about them, and dissect the "canon", the original work, by the original author, from every point of view.

You want to read about Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (from Harry Potter) or Legolas and Gimli (from The Lord of the Rings) having more than just a close friendship? Someone (many someones) has written it, or drawn it, or used selected pieces of text from the books to support the theory.

Your favourite anime has ended without a satisfactory ending? Write it yourself! Or, find someone who shares your love of the series, and has written their own version.

Think about it. An entire section of society that reads, and watches the same sort of things that everyone does, and then takes it and extrapolates it further. These are mothers, teachers, lawyers. They come from every single walk of life, and in a variety of age ranges. Some of them still remember the days of underground "fanzines" (magazines written by fans) for Star Trek: The Original Series. They remember the days when it was hard to do all the things that fandom does now and takes for granted.

Blogging sites have brought them together. They form "communities" that discuss the book, movie, or whatever, and offer art drawn by fans, or stories that are written by other fans.

These fan works range across the entire spectrum; from the most benign to the most erotic and pornographic possible. Some are, frankly, disgusting and disturbing. Others are just plain bad. And still, they are there. Still, people continue to produce them.

I'm not going to get into "why." That would take too long, and frankly, I'm not even sure of all my own reasons for being involved. Let alone anyone else's. Suffice it to say, we will paint them with a broad brush and say "because they want to."

Back to the blogging sites. They have brought together the legions of fandom, and spread them further. People no longer feel isolated in their love of these things, even though there isn't anyone close to them to talk about it with. Even if there's no one in your city that likes a show, or book, or cartoon, chances are, there's a website, archive, or "blogging community" dedicated to it.

At the end of May, one of the biggest ones, LiveJournal, seemingly bowing to the outside influence of an online vigilante group, posed a massive deletion and banning of over five hundred journals. Considering their site numbers in the millions of users, that may seem a very small percentage.

However, some of those banned were fandom journals. Very popular fandom journals. As well as an online discussion group about the book Lolita. Then the rumblings began. Fandom, pretty much as a whole, pulled together and demanded an answer. They wanted to know why this was happening without explanation.

Fandom, though, is, quite terrifyingly, legion. They did their own digging, made their own discoveries, and found the online vigilante crowing about how they'd finally made LJ/SixApart delete all those "paedophile journals." Some of those journals were for evil characters in an online role-playing game. Some were rape, or molestation survivors. And some were a discussion group for Lolita.

It took LiveJournal, and their parent company SixApart, almost two days, to finally address their users; after, of course, they'd already spoken to a reporter. No one, whether they paid for the service or not, received any answers at all. Then, when Barak Berkowitz, CEO of SixApart, finally did speak, his post was vaguely worded and didn't answer the questions posed to him.

Over the next pair of weeks, LiveJournal did its best to control the damage they had done to a surprisingly, to them it seems, large number of their user base. Then, they sold what they called "permanent accounts." What these are, are for one hundred fifty ($150) American dollars, a blogger can buy an account with a few extra perks, and never have to pay again. They even offered to donate some of that money to several online watch groups. Everything seemed, once again, semi-harmonious in blogging land.

People still weren't satisfied, though. They wanted clarification on site policies, and laws used to determined said policies. They wanted to know, exactly, what they were and were not allowed to do. LJ/SixApart remained vague. They attempted to explain, but they didn't seem to realise that while they may see fandom as a useless pastime, those that participate are not all teenagers without full time jobs and no social lives.

Fandom wanted answers. They wanted clear-cut answers that made sense and didn't contradict itself, sometimes within the same paragraph! LJ/SixApart were annoyingly vague.

What came next is still on-going. LiveJournal Abuse having received a report, deleted, and banned, a pair of fandom artists. When they were contacted for an explanation, the one they gave was in direct contradiction to earlier statements. The explanation? "The material in question, while not depicting child pornography, has no artistic merit."

Apparently, there is a loophole, in the law that states that something can be non-pornographic legally, but still be obscene. These "obscenity laws" are the ones that are being quoted as for the reason for the refusal to host said "art."

Now, there is the problem. See, most of fandom, no matter how childish they may act at times, are reasonable adults. If the announcement had been "We are no longer comfortable hosting this type of content." then most of those involved would have simply sighed and gone to find another place to be. Now, they would have also taken their money with them.

But LiveJournal/SixApart is a business. They start losing paying customers and something has to be done! So, instead of admitting that they are unwilling to host the content, they keep quoting laws. I said earlier that those that participate in fandom come from all walks of life. Some of those walks include lawyers, who have taken the time to read over said laws and then come back with a resounding "But the law doesn't say that!" to LJ/SixApart.

Yet, that is what the company keeps saying. We in fandom keep asking for further clarification, and a change in the site's Terms of Service to reflect those clarifications, but as of yet, we've not received a response other than back-pedalling, contradictions, and in one case, a known employee using his employee account with them to post disparaging remarks about fandom in an open forum.

So, LiveJournal/SixApart, Barak Berkowitz and others, I, as a member of fandom, am asking here and now: Will you answer these concerns? Will you take a stand and state what you will and will not allow? Will you actually perform customer service and listen to those customers when they have concerns?

Or will you take your tried and true method of muddying the waters further?

I am cat_mcdougall on LiveJournal, and I am a member of fandom, and I would like some straight answers.

Very detailed customizable reports can be created covering all aspects of behavior of visitors to the site in question; including geographic location of sources, average time on site, pages viewed per visit and percentage of new visitors. These reports can be mailed to you periodically or can be sent to others in a variety of different formats. It's a great tool for shining a spotlight on the weaker sections of your blog or just basically kind of spying.

Setting up Google Analytics on a Blogspot page is very simple indeed. You need to get a Google account, and then to sign up for Google Analytics. Then just follow the prompts and enter your site URL and any other details that Google might want to know about, like your mother's maiden name, or the name of your first dog, or how old you were when you first did it.

After a few steps they will give you a code segment, which you should copy to the clipboard. You then need to sign in to your Blogger page and click on “Template” and then “Edit HTML”. Next, scroll down to almost the bottom of the page and paste the code segment just before the tag. Click “Save Template Changes”.

You have done it, you have cut the jewel, but it's not party time yet. The jewel must be polished, which is just my way of saying that you should check to see if everything is working. To do this, reopen the Google Analytics window and click “Continue”. If all has gone well, under the "Tracking Status Information" heading you should see "Waiting For Data" and "Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now". Have you ever felt such joy? Well have you ever?

Anyway, your blog just became an East German two bedroom flat and you an outwardly stern (but privately quite sensitive) Stasi operative sent to keep tabs on the mysterious and beautiful ballet dancer that lives there with her cat. You'll probably end up falling in love with her and be forced into some cruel choice or something but, whatever, with Google Analytics now installed and operational you will need to wait a couple of days or so before you begin to see data.

Then it will start to trickle in. All the secrets and all the lies. Trickle, trickle, trickle. That maddening trickle; bittersweet and beguiling all-at-once, that will keep you coming back again and again. You sicko.

1. To pass time.
2. To share your personal life experiences.
3. To share knowledge about a specific topic.
4. To provide up to the minute commentaries about a current event.
5. To complain or rant about a topic that bugs you.
6. To convey mood.
7. To make money .
8. To show off.
9. To persuade.
10. To be able to write and fulfill passion.