If you're looking for something to do, there are several event search engines you might use: Upcoming.org and Zvents are two biggies, while Joobili is a smaller one that combines events with travel search. But all of this is for finding offline events. What about the thousands of things happening on the web every day? Enter Live Matrix. It's a new site that's just launched (into private beta) with enormous ambitions: to serve as a guide to everything happening online. "We don't include anything happening offline," says co-founder Sanjay Reddy. "We include anything happening online t [...]

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With the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada just days away, the engines are unveiling their special coverage sections and search features in anticipation of spiking user searches and social conversations about the winter games and Olympians. Here's a preview of the features from each, along with preliminary medals for search coverage. We'll see how it stacks up during the games. Bing: Gold Medal On the basis of their official partnership with NBCOlympics.com alone, Microsoft takes the top prize, but it's also well earned because they were first to anno [...]

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Have you ever needed to see the search results for another city -- maybe because you want to see what PPC ads are shown somewhere else? Have you ever needed to see search results from a different country, or in a different language? Maybe you're into real time search, and you'd love a place to find the latest photos and videos being shared on Twitter. Or perhaps you're planning a vacation abroad, but you're not sure when is the best time to visit Europe. It's time again for another roundup of the latest and greatest search tools and search engines, and in this article, I'll share five such [...]

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Long neglected in local search, online events search is fast becoming a very competitive and full category. Yesterday, Google announced its public calendar directory and today events aggregator and platform Zvents is announcing that it has added the papers of the New York Times Regional Media Group to its list of 40 online newspaper partners whose events and calendars it operates or populates. Also in this category are Yahoo's Upcoming, Attendio, Eventful, Citysearch, AOL Cityguide, Going.com and Jambase among others. [...]

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