And finally, a little something for all those green minded surfers
out there. The internet is awash with sites about caring for the
environment, but sometimes finding them can feel like wading through a
landfill.
Green Maven is a totally organic search engine dedicated to rambling through the green-web.
The site description says it focuses on green, conscious, and
sustainable websites so instead of your search term being applied to
the web as a whole, it only gets applied to "green" pages, meaning you
are much more likely to find your way quickly to the information you
want.
But this site is so much more than just a search engine. The
creators also scour the web for the best green articles, news and blogs
and combine them in an easy to read compendium on the opening page.
Click the video tab in the panel across the top to jump to the
videos section, where the best of "green YouTube" has been filtered for
your organic enjoyment. It has never been so easy to be green.
Search Is Paramount in the Emerging Green Category
Consumers have a growing interest in green, but limited familiarity. Many consumers are curious about the emerging green category but have relatively low understanding of the category or how to navigate it. As such, consumers are more likely to research product choices before making purchase decisions and turn to online search when the do so.
For marketers, this means establishing broad presence in paid search across both the general as well as green vertical search engines in order to intercept consumers when they actively seek category-, product- or brand-specific information.
Consumers today conduct that vast majority of green searches through general search engines such as Google and Yahoo and will likely to continue to do so in the near term. The popularity of green vertical search engines - including Green Maven, Greener, GreenGamma, LiveGreenOrDie, GreenLinkCentral, EcoEarth, EcoSeeker and Earthle among others - is growing nonetheless based on the perception that green vertical search engines return more relevant results than general search.
Google picks GreenMaven.com as featured custom search engine
Green search engine makes it easy to "go green"
San Francisco, CA - [August 9, 2007] - Google has recognized GreenMaven.com as an exemplary custom search engine, featuring the site in its "Google's Picks" section. Green Maven uses Google Co-op Search technology to search the Internet for trusted websites and news related to environmental and social values.
The world's most comprehensive green search engine makes it easy to "go green".
GreenMaven.com searches websites screened for environmental and social values
San Francisco, CA - March 15, 2007 - GreenMaven.com is the world's most comprehensive "green search engine" which allows users to search the Internet for trusted websites and news related to environmental and social values.
"People want to go green, but they often don't know where to start or even what questions to ask," says Joey Shepp, founder of Green Maven. "Green Maven makes searching for all things green as easy as using Google. If you search for socks, you get organic socks. If you search for cars, you get hybrid cars. Our mission is to make it easy for mainstream to go green."
TIME.COM features Green Search Engine in Top 10 Websites of 2006
San Francisco, CA - January 5, 2007- GreenMaven.com is the world's most comprehensive Green Search Engine which allows users to search the Internet for trusted websites and news. Launched in late 2006 by a team of Green MBA graduates, Green Maven is making quite an impression having reached a total of 1600 websites since its launch. Most recently, TIME.COM recognized Green Maven as the number nine best new website of 2006.
GREEN SEARCH ENGINE MAKES TIME.COM's TOP 10 LIST OF NEW WEBSITES
San Francisco, CA - January 5, 2006- GreenMaven.com is the world's most comprehensive Green Search Engine which allows users to search the Internet for trusted websites and news. Launched in late 2006 by a team of Green MBA graduates, Green Maven is making quite an impression having reached a total of 1600 websites since its launch. Most recently, TIME.COM recognized Green Maven as the number nine best new website of 2006.
Lee Ettleman, from TIME.COM reports, "Going green has never been easier than with Green Maven. Editors at the site hand-pick web pages and news items related to the environmental movement—about everything from eco-friendly cities to organic socks—that can then be searched using the Google tool on the homepage or browsed through using a directory."
The name Green Maven came from applying the growth in the green economy to Malcom Gladwell's book The Tipping Point. "Green is the color symbolizing earth, nature, and in a broader sense, life. A Maven is a trusted expert in a particular field who seeks to pass knowledge on to others." (Wikipedia.com). There is a growing segment of the Internet community searching for news, products and services that match their environmental and social values.
Joey Shepp, founder of Green Maven says, "People want to go green, but they often don't know where to start or even what questions to ask. Green Maven makes searching for all things green as easy as using Google. If you search for socks, you get organic socks. If you search for cars, you get hybrid cars. Our mission is to make it easy for mainstream to go green." Green Maven uses Google's recently released Co-op Search technology to making searching fast, easy, and relevant.
GreenMaven.com was designed with Open Source software by the leading sustainable website development firm, Earthsite.net makers of Urth.TV and GreenFestivals.org.
Green Maven is looking for contributors. Listing in the directory search engine is free. Once websites are submitted they will be approved by Green MBA editors.
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half of the 1990's. But Internet search is still in its infancy and there's much room for improvement. Moreover, the super high valuation of Google on NASDAQ pushes investors and researchers to find better search solutions - to be The Next Big Thing. And these wannabes are not only working on discovering better indexing techniques, they're exploring new horizons like vertical engines, meaning-based search, intent-driven search, new clustering methods, and much more. In this post, we look into latest trends in the search industry.
We have positioned the latest search trends into 3 main categories:
