Enter The RedZee Search Engine
Have you heard of the RedZee search yet? RedZee is a new search engine on the Internet market that disallows pornographical sites from being listed in their search results. That is a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on your personal search and surfing habits.
For those of us raising children, it’s a breath of fresh air. Yes, I know the standard adage — “it’s up to the parents to control the content their children consume” — but at least their Internet consumption can be somewhat cleansed when they use the RedZee search engine. Of course, as soon as your children are past the age of 5, they will figure out how to search “Google”, “MSN”, and “Yahoo!” in the RedZee search field, and awaaaaay they go.
Try the RZ search function. Go to the RedZee homepage and do a search for “porn” (or any other adult term), and watch the results. All you will get is the little red zebra shaking his head and doing a dance for you. Now if they can design a filter for all the drug and violence content. (don’t get me started) The red zebra reminds me of the donkey in the hit animation movie Shrek. Yeah yeah, cute.
It’s funny though; when I was talking on the phone to one of RedZee’s employees, he mentioned that RedZee is simply a new search engine, and not just a family-safe search engine. It’s seems that I’ve jumped on the same band wagon as The Washington Post, Fox News, Parent Guide Magazine, Forbes, The Seattle Times, and Yahoo!, as far as narrowing their product appeal. In my defense though, the family-safe feature is news-worthy for all consumers. Click here to read more on RedZee’s press.
When you view RedZee’s home page you’ll notice a few things right out of the gate. Their gui is similiar to Google’s in that it’s simple and clean. We’ll see how long they keep the adorable Zebra, but for now the kids love it. Children between the ages of 3 and 75 that is. They offer search for images, Mp3/audio, Video, and they also have a directory page for users who want to narrow their search from the get go.
Like all savvy Internet search companies they have a toolbar. The RedZee toolbar has the following list of features:
- One click search across 16 search engines
- Keyword highlight features for web sites
- The RedZee pop-up blocker
- Check your e-mail in the toolbar
- Instant real-time weather forecasts
- Radio RedZee music streams
- Add thumbnails to major searches
- Quick View feature for searches
- View Wayback machine archives
One of the first things webmasters will notice when opening RedZee’s home page, is that their Google Page Rank is only a 4 (at the time of this writing), but I assure you that will change quickly. As the Internet community begins to take notice of RedZee, their Google PR will likely be 8-9. I really don’t fuss over Google Page Rank levels as much now, but it’s something the Internet SEO (search engine optimization) community takes notice of right away. Anyway….I just gave them three more inbounds in this post.
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December 9th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
RedZee is nothing but bogus. If you have purchased key phrases in their “top 3″ ppc program, every single hit that comes from either their search engine or their spybar is a bounce.
I’ll say this again because it is very important:
Every single hit that comes from either their search engine or their spybar is a bounce.
Excluding my own testing, in every single case where an IP address has entered my sites from the redzee search engine – either directly from their search engine or from browsers that have the redzee spybar installed, which appends redzee “top 3″ ppc results to the top of the Google, MSN or Yahoo organic listings – that IP address goes no further than the landing page. In some cases, the IP bounces out before the entire landing page is requested from the server.
I have tested and confirmed this through exhaustive manual analysis of my raw log files. There is absolutely no doubt that the redzee “top 3″ is a scam.
I have severed my relationship with redzee in total disgust.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:56 am
Yep…..I got burned big time on the Redzee PPC program. I paid 500 dollars US in PPC costs and I never saw one log that showed a visit using my sites, spending time on my sites.
I also closed my account in disgust.
ALSO…..when all those crap hits hit my sites it made my Adsense ECPM dive, which through me into smart pricing. Pretty well devestated my Adsense income.
I hope may webmasters read this thread and NEVER use Redzee PPC.
As far the search engine goes, it’s not all bad. I like the no-porn thing…..but whatever….the whole thing is hype.
TZ