IntelliSeek Launches ProFusion.com

IntelliSeek announced yesterday the official launch of ProFusion.com (http://www.profusion.com/ ; it's been in public beta since February.)

The new site has ditched the banner ads and now adds 1000 resources in over 200 search groups. I went and looked at their news section (that's where I always look first when it comes to meta-search engines.)

There were several different categories for news. I chose Business News to search. While I got 19 results for my query, it was difficult to tell what sources were available. I clicked on the "Business News" link at the top of the results page, and was astonished to see that there were so many sources missing in the category's default search!

I don't get it. You put together all these sources, go to all this trouble to categorize them, and you don't activate them all in a default search? Before you start seriously searching, view the sources first (use the "Search Within This Group" link) and activate the ones that most interest you. The search interface provides plenty of flexibility, allowing you to specify a search type and how many results you want per search.

Results are sortable by relevance, title, URL, or source, and are provided with the percentage of relevance, title, summary with keywords (most of the time), URL, and source. You can specify similar Web pages to pull results from or request that your pages or queries be monitored for relevant results. (You'll have to register for that feature, but it requests nothing intrusive -- just a user name and a password.) You can also e-mail or print search results.

This is a powerful site, but it might take some time to wrap your mind around the volume of materials here. Worth a look.

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