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For portals and content publishers

Many portals, news sites and publishers have significant traffic that can be monetized by offering web search. Spurl offers portals a total solution for providing search results, selling ads and even some already established revenue streams. If you have a portal and you're not providing search services or you're linking to other search services with minimum or even no revenue sharing, Spurl's web search solutions are for you. The web search solution can by licensed as a whole or as individual services:

• Web search: Search results from the entire internet
• Specialized search: Customized search results focusing on a special part of the Web, e.g. Icelandic or Danish web sites only, or results any other predefined set pages, such as news or blog sites.
• Personal information storage: Spurl.net-like bookmark storage and personal search engine for your users.
• Language tools
• Spell checking: A web service that checks words or phrases against a dictionary and suggests alternate spelling if the words are not recognized. Currently available in Icelandic and English.
• Inflections and word forms: A web service that knows different inflections and other word forms of complex languages. Currently available in Icelandic only.
• Advertisement system: A full blown keyword based advertisment system with self-serve ads, statistics and reporting.
• Term recognition: Compares search words and phrases with a list of known words and phrases that can be handled specially. Lists can be custom made, but Spurl also provides large lists of known phrases, such as artist names, songs, book titles, travel related queries and more that are already linked to revenue generating ads and affiliate programs.
• Semantic analysis: Scans through large blocks of text for recognized words and phrases. Can e.g. be used to link to related search phrases or content specific ads.

For corporate and individual web sites

Just like search has gradually replaced hierarchical directories as the way to find information on the Web in general, search is also becoming the standard way for users to interact with individual web sites.

Spurl offers several tools that web site owners can use to meet these new demands:

• Site search: Powerful, quality search results for individual web sites that can be integrated seemlessly with minimum effort.
• Language tools
• Spell checking: A web service that checks words or phrases against a dictionary and suggests alternate spelling if the words are not recognized. Currently available in Icelandic and English.
• Inflections and word forms: A web service that knows different inflections and other word forms of complex languages. Currently available in Icelandic only.
• Term recognition In addition to "plain" site search results, Spurl's term recognition solution can be used to link to special results for recognized words or phrases, such as answers from a FAQ or information from a product catalog.
• Semantic analysis: Scans through large blocks of text for recognized words and phrases. Can e.g. be used to link to related search phrases or content specific ads.

For individuals

Apart from our own online services, Spurl.net and Zniff.com, Spurl powers and runs several online services with partner sites. Among these is leading Icelandic search engine Embla, run by Spurl with Iceland's biggest portal mbl.is (approx. 210,000 unique visitors per week).