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August 9, 2009

THE Charlottesville Search Engine, Wahoowa!

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Ah yes, Charlottesville. The mighty big small town. Always on some kind of Top 10 Livable Cities list. Home of The University (our chief engineer/founder is a proud graduate). Cultural/Media per-capita capital of the world (How does a town of 45,000 sustain two high quality alt-weeklies?). Home of some amazing blogs, too (though the iconic Cvillain–think small town Gawker–sadly closed its doors recently due to legal headaches). Yes, I’m gushing as I <3 Cville.

For the Charlottesville search engines, we chose the following:

The daily paper serving Charlottesville is the Daily Progress. We could not use its search string but have incorporated it into the Cville ALL search engine. This search engine searches within the following locally-relevant resources (again, marvel at the concentration of quality local media for a town this size):

To add the Charlotteville Search Engine Channel to your ButtonALL, enter the customization screen and drop down on Cities :: Charlotteville.

August 2, 2009

Hampton Roads Search Engine

East of Richmond (ButtonALL’s hometown), there lies a tunnel and some traffic. Before and beyond that tunnel is the “757.” The birthplace of our country began in the Hampton Roads section of Virginia. For the Hampton Roads search channel, we chose the two main newspapers servicing that region. Here are the five buttons:

The Hampton Roads ALL Search Engine only indexes local websites, hence, when you enter a key word, your search results will be locally relevant.

In addition to the websites listed above, here are the rest of the websites we index:

To add the Hampton Roads Search Engine Channels to your ButtonALL, enter the customization screen and drop down on Cities :: Hampton Roads.

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