WiseNut Search Engine Officially Launches

WiseNut officially launched yesterday; it's available at http://www.wisenut.com . What is it? It's a search engine that claims to index 1,495,332,308 pages. (Does anyone else find it interesting that at about the same time WiseNut officially launches, Google starts claiming a 1,610,476,000 page search?)

WiseNut has a simple front-page interface; just put some search words in the box and away you go. Now, there are two ways you can get search results. If you do a search that has limited results -- try "nerve restoration surgery" as a query -- you'll get just Web page results. You'll get the page title, a snippet from the page, the page URL, and a link to view more Web pages from that domain if there are any available. You'll also get the option to "Sneak-A-Peek," which looks to me like it just takes you to the Web site.

Now, if you do a more general search -- like microneurosurgery -- you'll get some results in white lettering in a black background at the top of your results. These are category searches. The number in parentheses beside the category name is the number of search results relevant to your query in that category. Click on the name or the number and you'll get taken to that list of results. Alternately you can click on the [search this] beside the category name. When you do that you search WiseNut for that category name and nothing else. For example, say you search for microneurosurgery. Then you click on [search this] beside the minimally invasive category. That will cause WiseNut to search on minimally invasive, NOT minimally invasive and microneurosurgery.

While there is a very basic advanced search at http://www.wisenut.com/WiseSearch/ (it allows you to input keywords into "with all these words," "without all these words," and "with this exact phrase" categories) it does not appear to support special syntaxes (I'm not absolutely sure on this as I cannot find the help file.) The category search is interesting, though; it provided me with unexpected search ideas. Worth a look.

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