By: Mike Sachoff | Source: webpronews.com

InfoSpace, Inc an online provider of search and directory services has launched a new search engine aimed at children between the ages of 8 to 13. The new search engine is called Zoo.com. The goal is minimize the exposure to explicit content while providing a solid search engine.

Zoo.com has a Web filtering system that restricts 50,000 plus "adult" words or phrases. You are not reading that number wrong. When I typed in the word "playboy" the search results were "Sorry, Zoo does not provide results for this search term."

When you search the Web you get results from Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia. When searching for news the results are from ABC, FOX and Yahoo News. The site itself has a jungle theme going along with the name Zoo.com There is also a window with animal facts.

When I was on the site there was information about the Green Sea Turtle and its ability to hold its breath underwater. When you click on the picture it takes you to the search results for the Green Sea Turtle.

Parents will probably welcome this new search engine site even though there are others out there like Yahooligans and AskForKids.

InfoSpace generates revenue whenever a user clicks on a result that is sponsored by an advertiser. The vice president of local and online search Rod Diefendorf said they will judge their success by how many visitors they attract.

On the site itself Diefendorf said ""With Zoo.com, we’re tapping our extensive history and expertise in Web search to deliver a relevant, broad, and fun search experience for kids, while offering the filtered results often requested by parents."

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Source: zdnetindia.com

Google introduced the first upgrade to its business software line, offering organizations a way to give individual employees or group members a personalized home page.

The new personalized home page feature for organizations functions as a central access point for Google Apps–short for applications–a set of Web-based business software aimed at small-business users, which Google introduced in August.

The Google Apps start page is a stripped-down version of the central overview that office workers see in Outlook from Microsoft or Lotus Notes from IBM. All three offer links to e-mail, calendar and other features.

Businesses, schools and non-profit groups can now set up individual Google home pages with shared news feeds, calendars, and expense systems, among various options. The rest is defined by users, who can add dozens of instantly updating features.

"The real difference here is that Google is pushing a powerful tool to companies for free," said Chris Hazelton, an analyst of small-business collaboration tools with IDC based in Framingham, Mass.

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Source: jimboykin.com

It’s an easy tool to use. Simply enter in a url and a keyword phrase.

The results will show:
The top 10 sites in google for that phrase, compared to your site.
It will also show how those top 10 sites rank in Yahoo and MSN.
It will show the number of pages those sites have indexed in Yahoo
It will show the backlinks to the page that ranks in the top 10 (Yahoo)
It will show the total backlinks to that domain (Yahoo)
It will show how many .edu’s are linking to each domain
It will show the Alexa ranking (rounded numbers)
It includes a link to Google’s Related Pages for that site (why sites with less backlinks rank higher)
Shows Google’s Allinanchor Rank
Shows the Age of the URL from the whois
Shows the Age from the wayback machine
Show how often the exact keyword phrase is found on the page

And shows all this in a nice table.

Since API’s are being used, this tool will only work for about 1000 searches per day…so if it gets maxed any day, try again the next day.

Try this tool here…

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