Submit Your Blog and Website Top 5 Blog Search Engines

The rapid growth of the internet and the massive adoption of social media has created new ways for individuals to express their opinions online.
Bloggers blog on many different topics, including their personal lives, product reviews, political opinions, technology trends, tourism experiences, sports events, and the entertainment industry.

Therefore most of the people are searching for good rich content that they usually find in blogs.
Readers find it more interesting to read these articles on these millions of blogs and definitely prefer their searches to be searched from these blogs.

Traditional web Search Engines sometimes miss these contents while searching written in these blogs. While Blog Search Engines search exclusively the required topics, from all the blogs out there.

Although there are dozens of Blog Search Engines indexing all the blogs, some are very inaccurate showing irrelevant results, some requires custom submission,and some don't even show the search results at all.


But here I compiled a list of Top 5 Best Blog Search Engines that can really help you in searching content from blogs, with accuracy and perfection.

5.BlogSearchEngine.com

A Google-powered powered search engine searches fast and shows all possible articles containing search keyword(s) but do not fetch the required search effectively. Search of same keyword brings lot of results in other search engine while BlogSearchEngine drops most of them.

Good feature includes list of blog categories and top searched/rated blogs on home page.
If its results omits your blog in searching then you may have to manually submit your blog to BlogSearchEngine, but you have to show their link in your blog/blogroll in order to be indexed properly.

4.Blogscope.net

Made as a part of a research project of University of Toronto, Blogscope.net helps in finding different topics from more than 35 Million tracked blogs.
Its searches and shows results faster and with more accuracy.

The best part is its mini preview window, which shows the actual article in the mini window when you place cursor on the links, without opening the entire blog.

On the side of the search page, its shows how many times the keyword has been searched before, in a preview window which they call "popularity curve".
A Tour may help understand more about BlogScope.

3.Ask.com Blog Search

One of the most senior search engines, Ask's Blog Search Engine has been searching millions of blogs articles since early 2006.

It also shows mini preview (like BlogScope), when you place your cursor over that little binocular icon below every search result.

You can subscribe to feeds of the search results.
Ask's searches are often deep, so you don't have to enter that advance search option.
You can arrange the search results by their popularity,date and relevance.

4.Icerocket Blog Search

IceRocket is a very impressive blog search engine, that not only provides searches from blogs but also from web,images,twitter and myspace.
It's BigBuzz search option is fun to use, which shows results from all types of sites, including videos, news etc, all in one page.

Top searched keywords, Top Blogs, and submission of a blog to IceRocket, all is available on home page.

For Deep searching, IceRocket Advance Search can be really helpful.

1. Blog Search

The king of Search Engines, takes the top spot in blog content searching too.
Despite being beta for a long time Google Blog Search is not only accurate and lighting fast,but it shows the maximum number of search results.

It first matches the the searched keyword with blog titles and shows in top of the result page under Related Blog section.
Below that it shows all the blog posts containing the searched term.

You can also subscribe to feeds or create and email alerts of the search term, which sends you an email whenever the keyword search is updated in search database.You can even create a custom widget of the searched keyword(s) that you can embed in your blog.

If your blog is not showing in Search Results ,then you can tell Google about your blog.

If you are using Google toolbar, then you can speed up blog searching by adding Google Blog Search button to your toolbar, which will help you search right from your toolbar.



Thank you for your time reading this.

Note, I made this small list based on my own opinions and experience.
So,leave your comments and tell me how do you find it?

I would really appreciate if you spread it, and help others looking for quality Blog Search Engines.

Most Secure Tool for Locking Files & Folders.

It is critical to have effective protection from unauthorized access, according to a report over 80% of reported security breaches come from within the organization, not hackers!

Locking files, folders and drives is the best way to guarantee that nobody accidentally or intentionally gets access to your financial, health, private or confidential information.

Lock Folder XP is a security tool that lets you lock your files, folders and drives with your personal password.

The Most Secure tool for locking your files, folders and drives !!


Now nobody but only you can access your most sensitive information. Locking folders, files and drives also effectively protects you from malicious programs, such as viruses, worms and Trojans.

Its Simple Drag-n-Drop support makes it easier to use. All you have do is to drag file or folder you want to lock to Lock Folder XP window, and the rest is done automatically. Now your data is protected, hidden and can not be accessed without entering your personal password.

And since locking your files, folders or drives makes them invisible, they can not be deleted, damaged or harmed in any other ways. Even if a virus gets into your system, your locked folders will not be detected, infected or harmed.

"I'd strongly recommend this for Laptop users...If you have a laptop and travel frequently, I'll advise you get Lock Folder XP. After all, if your notebook gets lost or stolen, you don't want strangers to see your "important" data, credit card or security numbers." :-D

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Online Check and Update All Installed Plugins In Your Firefox

If you're a firefox user then you must know about plugins installed with it. Firefox Plugins power videos, animation and games and other kind of applications. There is no plugin installed by default when you install firefox for the first time. They're built outside of Firefox by companies that want to support their applications to be executed by firefox.

Usually firefox automatically checks for updates for addons installed, ignoring the plugins. And If you noticed these plugins don't always update automatically and if they're not updated they can interrupt browsing by slowing down the performance and off course newer means better which have improvements that can make browsing smoother and safer for you.

You can see all installed plugins in your Firefox:


* Open the Tools menu.

* Choose Add-ons.

* Click the Plugins tab to view all installed plugins.



If you notice you can only disable a plugin but cannot update any as there is no update button available.

But you can check for plugins' status and updates through Mozilla's Plugin Check Service.

Just open Mozilla Plugin Check website.

Wait for a few seconds until the website automatically scans all the installed plugins and their current update status.

After scanning you'll see a complete list of plugins, their details and (if outdated) their recommendation to update with the direct link- linking towards to developer's website.
Now all you have to do is to click the update button in front of the plugins that you see outdated.

Plugins with undetected versions by "Plugin Check" are shown with a research button, clicking the Research button will open up Google Search results for the plugin's wesbite, from where you can manually look for the appropriate developer's wesbite to find the update.

It is recommended to Bookmark Mozilla's Plugin Check site and you should regularly visit it to check installed plugins' updates.

Beware! Fake Antivurus Softwares on the Loose.

This is a very important warning to all of you about some very malicious rogue security (anti-virus) programs that have become very popular on the Web.

These programs look legitimate, their Web sites are very professionally designed, and they're out to trick you into downloading their software as a way to keep your computer safe.
BUT These products will not keep your computer safe, in fact they put your personal information and your computer at great risk.

The program names listed below, all hide the same fraud. The most common warning displayed by these malware programs is "Halt! Critical System Warning".

The names this malicious, rogue security program uses are:

AntiVirusXP 2008
AntiVirus 2008
AntiVirus2008
AntiVirusXP 2009
AntiVirus 2009
AntiVirus2008
XP Protector 2009
VistaAntivirus2008
System Antivirus 2008


All of the above are said to be variants of the infamous WinFixer trojan.

These products look professional and legitimate and, in fact, have very well-designed, attractive interfaces. The developers of these products are out to get your money and have spared no expense in designing a professional looking program to trick you into believing these are legitimate programs.

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM. You'll lose money, face serious computer problems, waste time trying to remove it (it's very difficult to do), and potentially expose your personal information to criminals.




malicious programs, very difficult to remove, very egregious, that scatter duplicate associated files in various places on your computer in order to avoid detection. These programs display exaggerated scan results in order goad you into purchasing them.
These programs scan your computer and "find" hundreds of infections, registry problems, etc., and most are not legitimate problem. It will then inform you that in order to "repair" these errors and fix your computer you need to purchase the program.


If you have been duped by any of these products, see the bottom of this article for the proper method to remove them from your computer.

If you are one of the thousands of victims of these rogue anti-virus / security products,you need to remove it from your system- and you must remove it correctly. These are not very easy programs to remove. Here is a forum post on C|Net that explains how to get rid of these products and their clones.

My Online Clipboard !

When you want to send data from one PC to another or you want to share something to your friends, what you normally do?
You create an email and attached the text or file you want to send? or you upload the file on some Free virtual Internet hard-drive space of yours and send the link from there to your friends?

You must have had faced this problem of copying the data from one PC to another. It may be between two PC's under the same roof or it can be anywhere in the world.

cl1p.net is really an ultimate solution for this I've found so far.

It acts just like a clipboard in your Computer. You copy a piece of text from a text file or a file from one folder and you paste it anywhere in your computer as many times as you want.



With cl1p.net you can do this in three simple steps:

1) Choose any URL you want (leaving "http://cl1p.net/" )

example: "http://cl1p.net/zain"

2) Click "Show my cl1p"

3) On the next screen you can paste any text, upload a pic or a text file.(Max. 30 MB)

Done !

Now can open the URL you chose on any Computer and can see the text you copied !!!
Simple .. isn't it ? :-)

Although there is no need of creating an account, but you can sign up just to keep tracks of all cl1p(s) you have created.

If you use Firefox then you can drag n drop "cl1p.net" button to your toolbar for quick text copying to your cl1p.net account.
From the left menu of cl1p text editor screen , Click "Extras" and drag n drop the button link on your Firefox toolbar.

After that all you need to do is to select any piece of text from any site and Click that "Cl1p" button to paste the text you selected in your cl1p.net account.
the URL you selected the text from will also be pasted along the text in the bottom.
Pros:

Really Quick to use.
Password Protection (optional).
Rich Text Editor (optional).
Direct sharing via email.
Direct Printing option.
Message Boards can also be created.
Drag n Drop button for Quick pasting.


Cons:

Max. 30 MB of file upload.
Link expiry after 9 months.

Remember: By default the link expiry is set to "1 week", Don't Forget to change/increase it if you want to increase expiry time.

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Submit your Site to Top Search Engines

If your site or blog is new then Search Engines will take time to crawl and add your site to their database.

Submitting your blog or site to search engines is THE most important way for visitors to find your site or blog.

Everyone wants to see their site on top search results of search engines.

If you also want top the search engine placement for your site then don't wait for the search engines to automatically find you.

Just manually submit your site to them.

Submitting your site or blog to search engines should be one of the immediate steps to take just after creating your blog.


Here are some submission links of top search engines from where you can manually submit your site.

1. Google

2. Yahoo! Search

3. Windows Live Search

4. Cuil
(Remember: "Cuil" claims itself as the World's biggest search engine)


You can use also free service of "Submit Express" which submits your site to 20+ top search engines at once.
Submit Express



It should be understood that simply submitting your site to search engines doesn't mean your site/blog will appear at the top of a search results screen immediately.

It will take some time to Search Engine's Crawler to pick up all the pages of your site which may depend upon the amount of traffic to your site.


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If you have already submitted your site to Google, you can Check your site's status in Google index.

Internet Explorer User? Heard about IE7pro ??

If you are Microsoft fan and use their Internet Explorer for browsing... Then this customized ad-on is right for you-- so called "IE7 Pro" which adds a lot of new and customized functionalities to the existing Internet Explorer browser.


The freeware add-on has some smart solutions for tabbing, including default settings to open URLs in new tabs and let double-clicking close a tab down.

Here's another pleasant surprise: "dragging" and "dropping" an in-text link into white space opens the link in a new tabs without any mouse work. IE7Pro also borrows from several software concepts to help raise IE7's appeal, including Firefox's, to save and fill forms, and insert user scripts.

Some of the features;

* Tabbed Browsing Management
* Spell Check
* Inline Search
* Super Drag Drop
* Crash Recovery
* Proxy Switcher
* Mouse Gesture
* Tab History Browser
* Web Accelerator
* User Agent Switcher
* Webpage Capturer
* AD Blocker
* Flash Block
* Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform
* User Plug-ins
* MiniDM
* Google sponsored search

and lot of other features like these, make IE7 pro a must have ad-on for Internet Explorer.

The list of added features is long, but they're all accessible from a status bar icon that the program installs for you. Right-click on it to get access to mouse gestures, customizable hotkeys, and more.


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Shutting Down Your Computer Quickly!

There could be several answers to this, however, I highly suspect this one.

In shutting down, you computer must first close all running programs, Then, if your computer is loaded with many hundreds of junk files, it must go through them all also.
....The more junk you have on it, the longer it takes to shut down.

What is considered junk? It is hundreds and hundreds of files you probably have left on your computer that have built up so large, your computer must go through ALL of them before shutting down so that is what is taking so long.

Junk files are:

1. Temp Files,
2. Internet files,
3. Cookies, etc.

To give you an example. In checking my junk files nightly (and cleaning) just before shutting down, in just one day of surfing the net, you could have as many as 10 MB - in JUST ONE DAY!. I once found I had 59 MB in just one day. Multiply this by say -- 30 days - and you can see why a computer would slow to a crawl to shut down.

The program that I highly recommend to solve this Junk files problem completely (And FREE) is "CCleaner"

I run it every night before shutting down and my now my system shuts down completely in less than 7 seconds.