SOURCE: BBC Click 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.

SOURCE: Marketing Green Blog 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.

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."

San Francisco, CA - January 5, 2007- GreenMaven.com is the world'smost comprehensive Green Search Engine which allows users to searchthe Internet for trusted websites and news. Launched in late 2006 by ateam of Green MBA graduates, Green Maven is making quite an impressionhaving reached a total of 1600 websites since its launch. Mostrecently, TIME.COM recognized Green Maven as the number nine best newwebsite of 2006.

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San Francisco, CA - January 5, 2006- GreenMaven.com is the world'smost comprehensive Green Search Engine which allows users to searchthe Internet for trusted websites and news. Launched in late 2006 by ateam of Green MBA graduates, Green Maven is making quite an impressionhaving reached a total of 1600 websites since its launch. Mostrecently, TIME.COM recognized Green Maven as the number nine best newwebsite of 2006.Lee Ettleman, from TIME.COM reports, "Going green has never beeneasier than with Green Maven. Editors at the site hand-pick web pagesand news items related to the environmental movement—about everythingfrom eco-friendly cities to organic socks—that can then be searchedusing the Google tool on the homepage or browsed through using adirectory."The name Green Maven came from applying the growth in the greeneconomy to Malcom Gladwell's book The Tipping Point. "Green is thecolor symbolizing earth, nature, and in a broader sense, life. AMaven is a trusted expert in a particular field who seeks to passknowledge on to others." (Wikipedia.com). There is a growing segmentof the Internet community searching for news, products and servicesthat 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 toask. Green Maven makes searching for all things green as easy asusing Google. If you search for socks, you get organic socks. If yousearch for cars, you get hybrid cars. Our mission is to make it easyfor mainstream to go green." Green Maven uses Google's recentlyreleased Co-op Search technology to making searching fast, easy, andrelevant.GreenMaven.com was designed with Open Source software by the leadingsustainable website development firm, Earthsite.net makers of Urth.TVand GreenFestivals.org.Green Maven is looking for contributors. Listing in the directorysearch engine is free. Once websites are submitted they will beapproved by Green MBA editors.

SOURCE: Read/Write Labs 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: UI Enhancements Technology Enhancements Approach Enhancements (Vertical Engines)