Findy, The App Bold Enough to Take on Google
The first community-driven search app that puts the user first is now available to download on any iOS and Android device.
LOS ANGELES, CA - May 22, 2019 - Findy, the first and only smart mobile browser for consumers, has announced plans to take back your rights to democratize and decentralize web search – by taking on a little company called Google.
Findy co-founders Aaron Rosenthal and Jason Phillips saw an opportunity to declutter and un-sponsor the web experience, refining the way users search, explore, and discover. “We reverse-engineered the Internet,” said Rosenthal. “And Google is gonna hate us.”
Powered by community-driven AI, the result is a robust, distraction-free browsing experience that allows users to discover and consume content like never before. “Not sure why someone has not done this before,” reads a user review. Another reads, “How did I ever live without this app?”
With the ability to digest hundreds of web pages at once, Findy simultaneously searches classified sites such as Craigslist, eBay, LetGo, and OfferUp to deliver the most accurate, real-time results in an easy-to-manage, “Pinterest-like” structure. But unlike Craigslist, Google, or Pinterest, you’re not seeing ads, duplicates, scams, or sponsored results. And the real kicker? Findy doesn’t want your data. Like, at all.
Here’s what Findy does:
In an industry controlled 90 percent by Google, Findy is preparing for its first major release and is giving users an unbiased search option. “Some would consider this control a monopoly,” said Phillips. “But we see this as an opportunity, and we have the data to prove it.”
About Findy:
Findy is the world’s first search engine powered by your phone, bridging websites and apps together to make it easy to find what you want – search results that adapt to your choices, tastes, and interactions. Findy eliminates the extra work of having to hop from site-to-site and provides centralized results free of ads and duplicates. Findy is available on iOS and Android in North America with plans to expand worldwide. For more information, visit: https://app.findy.com.
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Did you know that June is National Internet Safety Month? Passed by Congress in 2005, National Internet Safety Month was established to raise awareness about the dangers that exist online, with a special emphasis on educating our youth.
In thinking about what your children's use of the internet may encompass, consider that:
According to BroadbandSearch, 95 percent of teenagers are connected to the Internet and 85 percent are using social media, meaning that virtually no family is immune to the dangerous threats posed online. To help keep children and families safe, MiLegacy [www.milegacy.com], a social media platform aimed at preserving our memories, would like to offer parents some easy tips:
Monument Valley Trails Revealed as
America’s Ultimate Road Trip
Geotab Research Analyzes and Ranks 50 Iconic Routes
Monument Valley Trails is crowned America’s ultimate road trip as it scores first place with an overall score of 92/100
Meanwhile, Route 66 fails to live up to its legendary status, placing 44th out of 50
Three routes in the Rocky Mountains rank among the top 10 — namely Yellowstone and the Tetons, Mesa Verde and San Juan Mountains and Colorado's Rockies
Three Southwest routes also place in the top 10 (Monument Valley Trails, Grand Canyon Road Trip, Bryce & Zion National Parks)
May 20, 2019 - A road trip is a fantastic way to explore America’s vast scenery and attractions — but with so many possible routes, how do you know which is truly the best? A new study from Geotab attempts to solve the problem by using data to rank 50 of America’s favorite road trips. You can explore the Road Trip Ratings study in full here.
Geotab identified 50 popular road trips and used TripAdvisor data to rate each itinerary in terms of attractions, accommodation and places to eat. It also analyzed official traffic data to rate each route based on how busy the roads typically are and conducted a survey to rate how long the trips take to drive.
Geotab then created a points system, assigning different weightings with each element of the road trip, in order to produce an overall ranking identifying the top road trip destinations.
Below are the top 10 highest ranking routes (all scores are out of 100):
Route
Region
Days
Score
Monument Valley Trails
The Southwest
5
92.0
Yellowstone and the Tetons
Rocky Mountains
7
90.6
Mesa Verde and San Juan Mountains
Rocky Mountains
7
89.9
Along the Missouri River
Great Plains
7
88.3
Blue Ridge Parkway
Florida & South
5
88.0
Oregon's Pacific Coast
Pacific Northwest
7
88.0
Colorado's Rockies
Rocky Mountains
5
87.9
Grand Canyon Road Trip
The Southwest
5
87.7
Hells Canyon Scenic Byway
Pacific Northwest
3
87.4
Bryce & Zion National Parks
The Southwest
6
87.3
Three routes in the Rocky Mountains were among the top 10 — namely Yellowstone and the Tetons, Mesa Verde and San Juan Mountains and Colorado's Rockies — alongside a further three routes in the Southwest (Monument Valley Trails, Grand Canyon Road Trip, Bryce & Zion National Parks).
Although Route 66 is one of America’s most iconic road trips, the study suggests that the journey fails to live up to lofty expectations. In fact, of the 50 routes included in the study, Route 66 places 44th.
Of the 50 road trips featured in the study, the average time it takes to complete a journey is 5 days, with the longest being a tie between Route 66 and The Best of California (both 14 days). Meanwhile, the shortest journeys featured are Lake Champlain Byway and Maryland's Historic National Road, both of which take 2 days to complete.
Traffic can make or break a road trip. The route that was noted as the best for traffic levels is Monument Valley Trails, while somewhat unsurprisingly, Disneyland and Orange County was named as the worst road trip in terms of traffic.
Travelers looking for the best accommodation to stay in throughout their road trip should head to The All-American Acadia Byway or the Blue Ridge Parkway, which both score highest for accommodation offerings. And although The Blues Cruise is an ideal trip for music lovers, it placed last of all 50 routes for accommodation along the route.
Routes in California ranked relatively poorly compared to others in the dataset. Of the six California route trips featured, the highest ranking was the Eastern Sierra Scenic Byway, which placed 32nd out of 50.
Geotab also highlighted five different routes that are best for different purposes:
Route
Region
Best for...
Days
Monument Valley Trails
The Southwest
The ultimate road trip
5
Hells Canyon Scenic Byway
Pacific Northwest
Attractions
3
Two Roads to Taos
The Southwest
Food
4
Along the Missouri River
Great Plains
History and culture
7
Lake Champlain Byway
New England
Weekend trip
2
“Road trips are a quintessentially American way of traveling. With so much different scenery accessible via the country’s sprawling infrastructure network, U.S. road trips are a vacation in and of themselves,” said Maria Sotra, VP of Marketing at Geotab.
“There are countless references to road trips in literature, film and music, and this has given certain stretches of road legendary status — Route 66 being a perfect example.”
“But with so much variety to choose from, settling on one route can be a seriously tough task. We created this study to see how U.S. road trips stacked up when data is brought into the equation.”
Methodology
Road trip itineraries were gathered from a variety of sources including Lonely Planet, National Geographic, National Parks Service, tourist boards of individual states and travel publications. Ratings for attractions, hotels and restaurants were collected from TripAdvisor. Traffic data represents Annual Average Daily Traffic across the roads included in the route. Duration was scored by using Google Surveys to ask 1,000 U.S. residents their preferred road trip vacation length.
Raw scores for duration, attractions, accommodation, food and traffic were assigned % weights, giving each trip a score out of 100. “Good for…” categories were determined based on share of attractions from TripAdvisor. Research was conducted in April 2019.
About Geotab
Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to help customers improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes. Geotab’s products are represented and sold worldwide through Authorized Geotab Resellers. To learn more, please visit www.geotab.com and follow us @GEOTAB and on LinkedIn.
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