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Last week I mentioned
RingBits, a Google-powered search engine for ringtones.
thanks to reader Keerti for bringing Ringspy to my attention—a competing ringtone
engine powered by Yahoo!. Keerti expressed a preference for Ringspy, so I ran a few comparative searches. Both engines
seem to operate in cooperation with selected ringtone providers, very much as Google selectes a range of specialized
Web publishers for its dedicated search environments: U.S. government,
Apple, Microsoft,
Linux, etc. While there is substantial overlap of their result destinations
in a simple search (for coldplay, for example), the results become nearly identical when you add a qualifier
like coldplay sprint or kelly clarkson verizon. Monstertones and Katazo dominated results in the searches
I ran. Ringspy supports searching by country—well, by three countries anyway (U.S., U.K., India). But RingBits is a
more evolved service, with a Google-like Advanced Search page and an extremely useful directory set up by music genre.
RingBits gets my vote.
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