Open your ears to Finday: 3 ways to stay up-to-date with all our news

November 3rd, 2009

Finday in Wwwhat's new

Finday in Wwwhat's new

We‘ve done it: You liked Finday and Finday liked you. Last week we had the worldwide launch of Finday in Spanish and English, and the response we’ve been receiving from technologically specialized media has been largely positive. One of them has come as far as describing us as “the Softonic of searches,” which fills us with pride and encourages us to continue building the world’s best participative search engine.

Truth be it, at Finday we are not resting on one’s laurels, and we continue working hard to incorporate substantial improvements as well as new and more interesting features in the very near future. And if you really think, like us, that Finday can dramatically improve your search experience of Internet content, you’ll surely be interested in keeping abreast of all our updates. With that in mind, we introduce you to 3 different alternatives (aside from this blog of course) to receiving our news and suggestions on time. Read the rest of this entry »

Find it on Finday!

October 23rd, 2009
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Online, at last!

October 2009:  finally, after nearly a year and a half of intense but exciting work, it’s time, the time that the entire team has been waiting for, the global launch of Finday!

If you’ve been following us, by now you know Finday is an innovative web directory and social search engine that starts with a truly revolutionary proposal:  to democratize Internet searches. Because Finday isn’t just an advanced search engine based on Google’s technology, but also the first Spanish directory of websites commented and evaluated on by users, and the only website ranking system not based on statistics but on human criteria. Read the rest of this entry »

The electrifying excitement that comes before a launch

July 22nd, 2009
Finday increases your productivity through the searches

Finday increases your productivity through the searches.

The launch of a website is just like the hours of build up before a storm. The atmosphere is charged with electricity whilst last-minute changes are being made, and the anticipation of knowing what the reaction of the users will be grows and grows as the echo of the first claps of thunder can be heard on the horizon. But in these moments that are so loaded with tension, there is also a certain sensation of calm, a strange peace that emerges from the certainty of having worked hard and having worked effectively.

Finday has been in incubation for more than a year, and now as it is just about to receive the public’s verdict, we realize the great leap forward that the website has seen since its first conception up to its current stage (albeit still the Beta version, let’s keep it real). Everyone on the Finday team has made, at one moment or another along the way, valuable contributions that have helped to improve the website to make it more functional, more useful, and generally definitively better. Read the rest of this entry »

Waking up to Finday

June 9th, 2009
Web 2.0 has democratized Internet use

Web 2.0 has democratized Internet use

So Web 2.0. Good or bad or simply where the Internet washed us up on the shore at the end of the noughties?

When you think about it, Finday is a definitely a child of this generation of Internet. And we’d like to say that this is, all round, a pretty good thing.

The Finday database provides a comprehensive directory of websites giving you the condensed information that you need, and shows you which useful sites other users have liked. In short, it delivers you the top sites available in whatever you might be looking for. Read the rest of this entry »

About Finday as a directory

March 10th, 2009

Finday includes a technical file of each of the registered webs

Finday includes a technical data file of each of the registered webs

Finday is a directory of websites that has been designed to improve your experience of Internet searching. It uses the powerful Google search engine in order to give you the most accurate search results, but also allows you to navigate through its hundreds of categories in order to find the websites that you need in any given moment.

Every website that appears in a Finday directory will have its own complete data file, which includes its own brief description of the website, and also a more extensive comment which evaluates the good and bad points of the site. As well as this, the files contain screen captures of the site’s homepage, and some of the other sections too, in the case of some of the larger websites. Read the rest of this entry »

Organizing the website: an exciting challenge

October 22nd, 2008

Finday is an intuitive web directory

Finday is an intuitive web directory

One of Finday’s main objectives is to provide the users with the best way of ordering their search results. In order for that to happen, we combine the search results from the Internet with our own database of websites, allowing us not only to ascertain which sites are the best from those that appear in the Google search results, but also which ones stand out amongst those within Finday’s multiple directories.

In this way, it is possible to separate the websites that have the highest ratings from the users in a Google search, or directly find the best sites about something specific by checking its corresponding directory. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to perform the methodical and exhaustive task of categorization and classification of websites. For us, it is vital to lay the foundations of our system of classification of the contents correctly, since the effectiveness of the personalized searches made by Finday users will depend, in large measure, on this classification. Read the rest of this entry »

How to improve Internet searches

July 8th, 2008

At this stage of technological development, following the years of Internet growth, after having seen the rise and fall of “dot com” businesses, in this globalized world, it can often seem that every new idea has already been invented, designed and put into place. However, there is still plenty of room for improvement; there are still many new ideas to explore in all arenas of the online world. And that includes the terrain of search engines.

The problem is how to improve Internet searches when neither Microsoft nor Yahoo! have been able to compete with Google, both having reached the conclusion that the battle for premiership in this sector is already essentially lost. The truth is that there is no real reason why internet users should stop using something that not only works, but that works very well, for another system with fewer resources and less mileage. The answer lies, perhaps, in going beyond the search itself, and instead providing the user with new features that raise the quality. Read the rest of this entry »