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.
Ringtone Search Engines
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. I just tried to find "Crazy frog axel f", in both engines (iam from india ) and ringbits doesnt even give any results but RINGSPY gave good links from where i downloaded the ringtone for free :) It may be correct that for websearch, google is the best - But for ringtones, i think yahoo powered ringspy wins. In US specific version of ringspy also, iam getting good results. In relevency, RingSpy seems to win. 2 votes for rinspy.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Arun
3. I think http://www.twongle.com gives a more direct search to ringtones than Ringspy and Ringbits. Twongle results let you compare across many content providers around the world including Jamster.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tony Tyrell
1. this search engine is a great idea. I just love it. next you'll have a search engine for mms templates / videos.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by colbert