Elsewhere, of interest: Google Patent Search, Kosmix, Zoomf, Nestoria, Buykee

The Read/WriteWeb takes a comprehensive look at search in: The Race to Beat Google . Regular contributor Alex Iskold categorizes the contenders into three groups: better technology, better UI and vertical/semantic search.

In other news:

• Google recently unveiled a patent search engine  ; here's a great article about it   by entrepreneur Paul Allen (the lesser) that also takes a look at the bigger picture.
• Mamma and Looksmart  : Ashkan Karbasfrooshan looks at Search engine stocks on Seeking Alpha.
• From the Official Kosmix blog: Kosmix gets a new UI
• Real estate vertical search in the UK  : Zoomf  and Nestoria  , and their similarities to Trulia
• Here's a review   of Buykee, a Chinese social shopping site consumer electronics feedback community.
• I found this interesting article (it's not new), by Ramana Rao: Beyond Search is REAP

Comments

[Ashish Mohta]

Great links.I am lagging on my spawners.Will start after 20th of this month

[Jitendra]

Nitin, Thanks for the great links...The REAP link has really got me thinking.

[Artemi]

The only UK property search engine that's not an imitation of Trulia is extate.co.uk, with full screen google maps, natural language search, price heat maps, videos, and so on. Take a look if you haven't seen it yet.

[Wholesale Electronics]

thanks for your sharing!Best whishes!The article is so nice.