Planning a vacation for next year?

If you are you should visit HotelReservations.com and browse through their hotel room listings. That’s right, they have hotel room listings for cities from all over the world.

If you’re planning a trip to Italy, it’s simple, just choose the country of Italy in the drop down list on the main page, and a new page called Italy Hotels will come up where you can then select what cities you plan on staying in and view the various rooms that are available during your holiday time period, and you can book them right then and there too.

I don’t know if you’ve heard yet, but a new search engine will soon be launching. Megaglobe - New International Search Engine. Megagloge is spidering the web, collecting sites for it’s search engine. Naturally I listed all of our sites as soon as I visited MegaGlobe because I love being spidered! Hmmm that sounds kind of kinky doesn’t it?

After reading a few press releases for Megaglobe, I discovered that they plan to implement tools that will help put a stop to click fraud. It’s called “Zero Click Fraud” technology, and it will be able to detect false clicks. This will be beneficial to advertisers and websites that place pay per click types of advertising on their sites, because as you might know Google is having a huge problem with click fraud right now with it’s adsense products. MegaGlobe hopes to eliminate this type of fraud which will make pay per click advertising work so much better for website owners and advertisers alike.

When Megaglobe launches it will be available in 45 languages which means it will be able to service the whole world. I think this is going to be an amazing search engine as it will operate from over 300 individual country-specific URL’s, and it will be translated into hundreds of languages. Plus it will employ a unique and sophisticated algorithm to improve the quality of Internet searching. I think MegaGlobe could easily become a rival to Google if it turns out to be as good as it sounds in the press releases.

When Megaglobe launches I want to explore it. I just have a feeling that it’s going to be another great search engine. It looks like MegaGlobe will be offering some kind of ad system. I could be wrong about that though, I’m just guessing since it has developed the click fraud prevention coding. I’m not sure if will offer a way for website owners to make money on their websites through the use of their ads or if the ads will just be on the megaglobe pages. I definitely want to check into the ad system when MegaGlobe starts up. In the mean time why don’t you visit megaglobe and get your site listed too?

I’ve been checking out a new News site, it’s called Newgie.com. It seems like a good way to get the latest news and to discover what other Newgie members are reading most often.

The newgie site offer a rating system for the various news stories. You can use your mouse to hover over an article that you’ve read and a box will pop up that lets you recommend the story for other readers, discuss it by leaving a comment, or even add it to your favorites.

What I like about this site, when I compare it to Yahoo News- which is where I always used to go to read up on the latest news items is the rating system. The newgie system keeps track of what the other members are reading most often and as a result, when you sign in and check your ” My Newgie” page you’ll see the most popular articles of the day all in one easy to use listing. Yahoo news doesn’t list the news in this manner- yes it does list the most popular stories world wide, but with Newgie you know that the popular stories that you see first are the ones that are most popular with Newgie members.

The Newgie site also lets it’s members submit their RSS feed. If it’s accepted you can add a chicklet to your site so that you can easily share your feed with other newgie subscribers. Pretty cool if you ask me.

It’s really easy to register on the site and your membership is free. Once you are registered, you can start selecting news categories that you want to see when you first visit your newgie page. The site ranks stories based on the interest that other users have shown.

Navigating through the Newgie site is pretty easy to do too. Visit your My Newgie page and if you’ve already set up your preferences all the stories from the topics and categories that you selected will be there for you to browse through, or you can click on your My account page and set up your preferences there, see the stories that you’ve viewed most recently, and manage your categories, RSS feeds and communities.