Search Engine Fazzle Has Interesting Features

You can use Opera with metasearch engine Fazzle ( http://www.fazzle.com/ ) but personally I found it much prettier and easier to use on IE. So this is a review done on IE.

So Fazzle. It's a meta-search engine. It searches Wisenut, Altavista, Teoma, Lycos, Yahoo, MSN, and Netscape. Various other search engines are available depending on what kind of search you do (look at the top of the front page and you'll see tabs for several search types, including Web's best, general Web, and general downloads. Look on the advanced search page for even more search category options.)

To do a simple search put something in the query box and choose whether your searching AND, OR, searching for a phrase, searching for a URL, or doing a Boolean query.

Search results are interestingly formatted. You'll notice that every result has a checkbox next to it. We'll get back to that in a moment. Results include the title of the page, very brief snippet, URL, on which search engines it's ranked and where, and the percentage of popularity. You have the choice of ranking results by popularity, title, URL, description, and domain.

Now all this is fairly standard. What I found most interesting about these search results was the little checkbox. Check the items you find most interesting and you'll have the option to e-mail those items to yourself or somebody else (that option is under the query box and above the results list on the results page.) Also check out the "Reports" item which gives you statistics about your search and a grouping of search engines where your results appeared. Very interesting.

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