• Alt Search Engines, Friday, September 5, 2008 2:18 PM

On the hunt for a bike on Craigslist? Or maybe it's new blog posts related to your hotelier client? Whatever the info, Yotify can scour the Web for you and report back on any new info, sort of like Google Alerts on steroids. "Create a 'Scout' keyed to Craigslist, YouTube, Hotels.com, shopping sites like eBay, blogs, or mainstream media," Rafi says. "When your information is found, the Scout reports back to you as often or periodical[ly] as you'd like, hourly or daily."

You can program scouts to simply search for keywords, or get complex and base one on finding a specific product when it drops below a specific price. Yotify scouts can also alert you to changes on profiles in networks like LinkedIn. "The idea is to send as many scouts out as you want, looking for what you need on the big website hubs," Rafi says. "Hopefully, as the private beta turns into a public full-blown search monster (a friendly one of course), we can all begin sending out our scouting spies and have the engine work for us."

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