What’s Bessed?

Bessed (pronounced “best”) is a search & information site, whose mission is to offer you the very best sites on just about any topic. To encourage your participation, it’s built on a platform that allows you to comment on what you see, to suggest a site, or to discuss different topics that interest you.

Searching? Use the search box above.

Have a suggestion for a new topic? Leave it in the comments of the Add URL page.

Think a site or page should be listed in an existing category? Search for the appropriate category(ies) and tell us by leaving a comment on those pages.

Still don’t get it? Read the FAQ or leave a comment to this post and we’ll try to help.

20 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Mark Spence    February 27th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    Great idea. Pretty smart all in all.

  • 2. Lame    March 7th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    yes… lame indeed

  • 3. spaml    March 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    commenting on search results can really make a revolution in the search engine trends and have it’s own identity separated from Google and other common search engines. I can see a blooming future for this site. Keep up the good work

  • 4. laura    March 25th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    I recently added google CSE to my website and absolutely love it, and so do my site visitors.

    I am a refugee from eurekster. After trying that program, and other similar, community-based, search engines, I have come to the conclusion that my site visitors want a search engine that is useful to them. And they really don’t want to have to work for it.

    Google’s CSE offers the exact customization I need to be able to target the results to my particular market. And it’s speed-lightening quick - something eurekster had and still has problems with.

    I guess it depends on what the search engine will be used for, but after trial and error I really believe that google IS search and it will take a lot (if it’s even possible) to push google out of that spot. Especially since their CSE is continuing to offer options for more customization as it develops.

  • 5. B.L. Ochman's weblog: Int&hellip    May 30th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    Jason Calacanis and Star-Studded Investor Team Launch Mahalo, Human-Powered Search…

    Outspoken, thoroughly outrageous, endearing, occasionally obnoxious, and always clever serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human-powered search engine whose name is Hawaiian for “Thank you.” Calacanis was CEO of Weblogs, Inc. w…

  • 6. Queen of Suburbia Fashion    June 10th, 2007 at 6:22 am

    Great idea! Very Web 2.0! or should that be web 3.0?? I can’t keep up!

  • 7. Dan Alger    June 24th, 2007 at 10:10 am

    Contact any professional association that includes research librarians to offer all research librarians the opportunity to be a volunteer editor. Their profession is to find useful information in a search.

    Given time, as your finances allow, take the best of those volunteer editors and hire them as part-time editors.

    Given more time and finances, use the pool of volunteer and part-time editors, hire more full-timers.

  • 8. jacqueline    June 26th, 2007 at 4:32 am

    I’ve been so frustrated finding relevant sites I was thinking of trying to compile a list myself but the amount of work involved seemed overwhelming. Good-luck with your idea.

    I’ve often felt that I wanted to search the internet using the equivilent of a subject catalogue, the same way you look for books in a library. The guy who mentioned consulting librarians has a good suggestion. You should consider it. I believe their professional organization is called the American Library Association.

  • 9. AdamBessed    June 26th, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Dan & Jacqueline,

    Thank you for your comments. We are looking at a number of ways to grow faster, and I appreciate these suggestions.

    Adam Jusko
    Founder & CEO
    Bessed

  • 10. Guardian Unlimited: Organ&hellip    August 24th, 2007 at 9:39 am

    Tom Coates on why bloggers aren’t prostitutes…

    Courtesy of Ben ITV Ayers, there’s a super spat going on about PRs targetting bloggers. Something snapped for Tom “thisreallyisessentialwebreading” Coates recently: he’s threatening to introduce a page on his blog for people that send him press re…

  • 11. Ayushi    December 1st, 2007 at 4:17 am

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  • 12. AdamBessed    February 21st, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Ayushi,

    We’ve added your suggested site at New Jersey News. (Please don’t anyone else use this page if you want your site added — go to Add URL please.)

  • 13. JD - HostGator Review    August 29th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Great idea, I like it! Keep up the nice work guys.

    JD

  • 14. Ebayer    September 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    I wish you good luck wih this great idea!
    Andrew.

  • 15. oliviaharis    September 26th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    Since the site is new, it doesn’t work very well yet. I tried several basic search terms, and only got a few relevant results. Clearly the site needs more users to make more comments to incite more revisions; right now, it just won’t compete with larger, more well-known search engines.
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    oliviaharis
    Internet Marketing

  • 16. jessica    October 12th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    very interesting site. will keep posted.

  • 17. Adele    October 26th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    I think that this is an awesomely good idea! And I like the direction that it is going.
    How do I help get the word out?

  • 18. gordon ritchie    October 28th, 2008 at 3:13 am

    Besssed?? you mean BEST????

  • 19. carl...    August 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    This bessed website keeps getting better and better. I think it is great.

  • 20. Carl Strohmeyer    October 26th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Personally I think Bessed was and still is a good idea. It does not have the “flash” of Mahalo, but personally I think there are too many sites that are like that with all the social media sites permeating the internet.
    Comment #2 by “Lame” is simply unnecessary and lack any respect for a good idea.

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