Silobreaker: A News Search Engine All Its Own

December 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Internet can be an overwhelming place when you’re searching for news. With every news outlet—newspapers, television stations, and large news organizations alike—running its own web site in addition to sending their articles to the masses through RSS feeds and social networking web sites, finding exactly what you need can be confusing. Many people want their news in one place, and while RSS feeds offer this convenience, they can be hard to understand and configure sometimes.

Silobreaker is a news search engine, but calling it that doesn’t really give justice to the site. It’s much more than just a simple search engine and offers a rich user experience. Some of the things you’ll experience include the following:

• As you type in the search box, suggestions pop up. Use them or don’t, it’s completely up to you.
• Searches produce basic facts and people with links to articles or biographies (if you’re searching for a person).
• YouTube videos on important new stories and people (constantly changes and updates).
• A list of top stories that is regularly updated over the course of the day for as long as the story remains popular. If you roll your cursor over the story, a box containing links to biographies of people involved in the story will appear.
• When you read a story, a row will appear toward the bottom of the screen that displays related stories.
• A section full of quotes related to your search or a specific story (depending on what you’re reading).
• Links to more content that is broken down into sections such as blogs, reports, audio, and video among others.

While Silobreaker is a paid news search engine, they offer a 30-day free trial. If you’re looking for something easy to get you the news you want, give it a try. You’ll find what you’re looking for.

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Ancient Hits and the New Search Engines

August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Old Rock-n-rollers often share a combined condition of remembering most of that they need to know about a specific song and a stubborn streak that obviates any ability to let things rest until they have everything they need to know about it.
Anyone “of a certain age” has had the experience of hearing vaguely familiar notes while sitting in a movie theater, walking through a shopping mall, or being at a stop light alongside a teenager’s hotrod Honda (when the tune is usually accompanied by a bass thump that one might associate with a bad tequila hangover). And the questioning begins: What’s the title of that song? Who sang it? Who wrote it? When did it come out? Ad infinitum. For many years, this created painful gyrations of seriously disused portions of the brain as those who loved the song but were – for one reason or another – short on details strove to answer those questions.
In the pre-internet days, it was necessary to strain the brain, call a friend who was doing his own brain less damage at the time the song came out, or dig through ancient issues of Rolling Stone for a clue. Enter first the internet, and then the new and improved search engine.
The days when one needed virtually everything but a musician’s Social Security Number to get any information about a song are happily gone, and hopefully forever. Today you just enter a few remembered lyrics, the name of the artist, or if you’re lucky enough to remember, the title of the song into a good search engine for range of helpful information. You’ll find fan sites, ancient rocker sites, and even YouTube for faded videos of the aforementioned rocker when that rocker still had hair (usually too much of it), and even shots of the kids who have made everything new by doing a cover of that old song. Now all a fan of ancient Rock-n-Roll need do is remember the question long enough to get to a computer or pull out his/her phone for instant answers to once all but unanswerable questions.
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