Jyve believes real people know lots of things that aren’t easily found on the Web. Jyve offers live access to people and what they know, a means of quickly connecting with someone who has the exact information you need or knows right where to find it.”

Any user can use Jyve to get live “how to” information, assistance with Web searches and tips and advice on everything from what type of laptop to buy (and how to configure it) to learning languages, cooking, mountain biking, etc.

How It Works

When visitors to www.jyve.com type in questions, notices are instantly sent to the desktops of logged-in members who have tagged the topic as one they are knowledgeable in. Members can then “Jyve live” by chatting on the Jyve site, or enter one-on-one conversations via IM or VoIP call. Those seeking answers can evaluate an “expert’s” Jyve profile before entering into private sessions or paid transactions.

Jyve’s Success story

Jyve was founded as an award-winning plug-in for Skype users and quickly attracted a grassroots community of 30,000 members in 50 countries worldwide. Jyve was recently included in Skype’s Extras 3.0 suite and continues to bring members of the Skype community together to share information. As the world’s first “live ask engine,” Jyve extends the use of free, Web-based communications to eclipse static search tools.

About Jyve

Jyve was founded in 2004 to bring the knowledge stored in peoples’ minds worldwide online. Based in San Francisco and privately held, Jyve offers members the opportunity to build presence, credibility and business networks online with no upfront costs, and gives manufacturers and service providers a means of extending “peer support” to customers without adding internal resources. Jyve holds two provisional patents for “productizing knowledge” & metering time using Voice-over-IP and Instant Message (IM).

We have seen that there were recent improvements, new features from other search engines too like yahoo suggestion boards and AskX.com and ofcourse the custom vertical search engines that anyone create from Google or Swicki who are already in the search engine war.

I keep using all these search engines and their services, features at different times for different topics. Your comments are most appreciated.

In the below part of every result it shows site snapshot which gives an information of that site, its ranking and also about special deals if available. If we click on a snapshot takes you to a details page of that site.

Details include site profile a graphical diagram gives information on people, ranking, pages/ visits and Average stay of monthly reports about deals and trust. Not only snapshot it also gives you many tools like mycompete where you can see your site competition and toolbar.

These are the most interesting things giving by compete.com to visitors…

Clusty.com is a Meta search engine that aims to overcome the problems of irrelevant results by grouping results into topics. Instead of relaying only on search engine results based on site ranking, it groups results into clusters after searching top search engines. As a consequence, the most accurate results get pushed to the top spot and the irrelevant ones get pushed to the lower end of the pile.

Since the results are grouped into clusters, you can simply sift through your search results topic by topic.
The clustering of your search query really helps in simplifying the whole search engines process. Once you type in your query and click ‘Enter’, clusters get stacked up on the left side of the screen. You can then choose that’s most relevant to you. It looks like clubbing of search engines and the directories. As directories are one which categorized and listing the sites manually. In clusty.com also most of the results look appropriate for your search. Other than robotic works, there are lot of the manually efforts behind this search results.

Clusty.com is juicing out as much information as possible.

• Transperancy
• recognition
• Competition

Alexa Traffic Rank for digg.com: 76 and will increase for sure.

Number of visitors from November 2005 to november 2006 have been 8 Million which increased every month by 139% every month of the above mentioned time period.

One of the main reasons why Digg will be succesful because it concentrates on natural search ranking, i.e. SEO (search engine optimization) benefits. Because tech enthusiasts tend to be an audience that does a lot of web linking – either via blogs or websites – Digg received a lot of inbound links in a very short period of time.

When you go to Digg You will have several benefits of using options likeBlog this, Email this, Comments, the category link to which the result relates to thus giving a lot of options for users to check whats in with the news updates of that category.

Digg changed its template recently which improved the navigation a lot giving seperate links to podcasts, news and videos and below them a navigation of all the categories which gives all the options for geeks and users to check for the news updates of their interest.

Most of these case studies involve the key success factors like the major strategy to promote the products, the website launch strategy, exit analysis and the broad analysis to apply these successful strategies for other internet businesses.

The criteria for what defines a successful Internet company is not tough and fast. However, typically the internet business will meet one or more of the following:

Successful exit for the entrepreneurs and investors
Large revenue (>$30M per year)
Well-known Internet brands

Startup-review.com has been very impressive in the way they carry out their research and give the information in the way they have given.