Rank Noodle

Every so often I come across a website that I say to myself “I wish I had thought of that”! The ideas I like do range from being very simple minisites to the more complex large community websites. What I’ve found recently that I particularly like is RankNoodle.com. I cannot fathom what possessed the site designers to choose such a name, but it’s memorable!

Most short .com domains have gone these days, so it’s incredibly difficult to find a nice new catchy domain name that hasn’t already been registered. Most cyber squatters (who might call themselves internet entrepreneurs) have snapped up the shorter domains, leaving only a handful of 2 word domains.

So what do I like about this site? Well it’s a completely fresh idea for a search engine. As an experiment, I did a search for making money online. What did I get? I got a basic definition at the top of the site, a load of Related making money online Conversations which seem to be length forum type posts, some Web Results for “Making Money Online”, some images, and some YouTube videos. Now that’s different.

Combining all of those media types into a single search engine is a very neat trick. Once the site reaches popularity, I imagine they’ll earn a fortune in advertising and affiliate links. Since you have each of the main types of information typically found on the web in once place, there’s scope for interesting advertising techniques. It wouldn’t surprise me if this new search engine invents a new style or type of adverts. That’s not forgetting that they get to cover all niches too.

The only downsides that I spotted about the site is that the “About Us” and “Press” pages are still empty and the design of the site is a little rough around the edges. However, I’m intrigued to see how this develops.