Friday, May 26, 2006

SWiK Added to Keeca Web

Keeca Web is a collection of good vertical portals that we recognized over time. For software professionals, rather than using a generic Web search, a specialized open source database is quite helpful and handy to find what project to use and/or technology to delve into to build your software applications. Today, Keeca identified SWiK, the free database of open source projects, and added it to Keeca Web collection.

According to SWiK:

SWiK is a wiki designed to drive community involvement and organize a lot of information.

SWiK.net is a community resource devoted to open source software. If you want to use open source software, SWiK’s mission in life is to make things easier for you by revealing how to use the software you have, or letting you know what projects you should be using.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

SafeSearch and Site-Flavored Activated for Keeca Web Search

Keeca Web Search is powered by Google, the most influential search engine in the world. So ... what's the difference between searching on google.com and you type a search term, and click on Web search on keeca.com?

First, SafeSearch is on at Keeca Web Search.

With SafeSearch, sites and web pages containing adult themed and explicit sexual content are excluded from Keeca web search results. Keeca prefer not to have adult sites included in our search results. According to Google:

Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain pornography and explicit sexual content and eliminates them from search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, Google's filter uses advanced proprietary technology that checks keywords and phrases, URLs and Open Directory categories.

Second, Site-Flavored is turned ON.

Site-flavored search is a new feature from Google that lets us customize Keeca Web search results to be more relevant for discount shoppers. Since we have site-flavored search turned on, Google's learning technology will flavor your search results to be more customized to Keeca's themes and topics.

For example, Keeca is a site about finding online bargains and everything else, site-flavored search may over time begin to understand our topic and influence your Web search results to be more bargain-relevant. However, according to Google, the learning technology used in site-flavored search takes time. You won't notice any changes overnight, but gradually your search results should become more relevant.