Tag: Search Engine

Search Podcasts

Podcasts can be searched on the iPhone via iTunes, on Android devices in the Google Play Store with the keyword Podcast. In addition to the internal search in the apps, special websites make it possible to listen to and record podcasts. In German https://www.phonostar.de/, in English http://www.podcasts.com/, https://www.mixcloud.com/, https://audioboom.com/, https://www.acast.com .

Special search engines make it possible to search in the content itself by converting the spoken language into text: https://www.listennotes.com/, https://fluiddata.com, https://www.spaactor.com/ (German)
or the metadata can be read out (all German search engines):
https://fyyd.de/, https://panoptikum.io/, https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/, https://www.podcast.de

 

Millionshort

The search engine with filter

Million Short is a search engine developed in Canada since 2012 that aims to provide users with access to websites that are not displayed most frequently or are prepared with search engine optimization.
The “Mission Statement”: “Million Short’s mission is to guide people on the road less traveled by providing alternate methods of organizing, accessing, and discovering the vast web of information that is the Internet.”
Million Short uses Bing’s API and uses its own crawlers to determine the pages to be excluded. Filters can also be set by e-commerce, live chat, date and country.

Google as a problem

Google has a market share of almost 95% in Germany. A monopoly position can be problematic in several ways:
– Quality of information <- >Advertising.
– Information bubble, if search results are displayed according to previous searches.
– Dominance of the advertising market and online market.
– Social and political aspect: Can political opinion be influenced or even controlled?
So the question arises:
– Can’t other search engines be used? How are their search results to be evaluated? What standards are applied?
– If the search results of the other search engines are not sufficiently suitable, does not an alternative have to be developed by public means?
– If the USA dominates the search engine market with Google and Bing and China with Baidu and Russia with Yandex develop search engines, is it not already necessary for this reason to develop a European search engine?
There are completely different aspects of the subject that we want to examine individually.