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Ok, so I’m an awful blogger. I’m making myself write a post no matter how uninteresting it is just to get myself kick started. < - great example of how not to keep your readers interested in reading on.

I'm a big fan of the suggestions that pop up in most search engines when you start typing. It's a great feature that should have been implemented a few years ago. Surprisingly, Google was especially slow to adopt search suggestions, but as usual they did it a little better (by including an estimated search count, etc). Sadly, rumor has it that search count won't be published much longer (it's not in the screenshot). One thing that did catch my attention was when highlighted links started showing up at the top for certain queries. At first I thought it was a new form of monetization they were testing out, but these links aren't ads. Google is trying to point you to a specific domain if your query leads them to think you are looking for a specific website. So as evident in the my screenshot Google's best guess for the search "lime" is limewire.com

Check out this Search Engine Land article for info.

This past week OrangeSoda was honored as an Emerging Elite Utah company by the Mountain West Capital Network.  The event was held at The Grand America in SLC and was attended by a few thousand business owners and executives.

The award ceremony had to move somewhat quickly as it included the top 100 revenue growth companies so winners were led through the gauntlet one after another.  So to say the least I wasn’t quite prepared when I found myself next to the Governor.  Somehow my upper lip disappeared and I turned 5x more pale than normal.  Good times.

SearchMe.com has actually been out for a few months, but I just came across it.  This may have the potential to do well with the average web user.  Results are displayed in a more visible manner based of off the search type.  For example, music searches render an Itunes look and feel.  And get this…you can stream just about any song directly from the results.  Check out this William Fitzsimmons tune.  The concept may not sound that innovative, but how many legal sites can you actually stream entire songs upon request?  Google universal search could learn a few things from these guys.

Obviously for informational searches it’s no google.  Most likely this site will fall in with countless other engines popping up, but it’s worth a look. Here’s an old TechCrunch article for more info.