Mooter Search Engine Clusters, Even With Opera

Two search engines with weird names in one week. I'm on a roll. Mooter ( http://www.mooter.com ) is a search engine that clusters results. Better: it's a visual cluster. Best: it clusters even in Opera, without relying on IE. Now if Mooter had all the special syntaxes of Ay-up, I would adore it. But it's still worth working with.

After you visit the home page and get past the logo that looks like it belongs on the side of a boogie van (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) you'll find a simple search interface. There is no clue about special syntaxes or search help.

A search for Olympics gave no result count, but instead a group of clusters that included sports, games, Sydney, etc. You can page through clusters, click on a cluster to get a set of relevant results, or view all results sans visual clustering (relevant topics are on the left of the results page.)

This is a good start. I want to see more. I want to see some kind of syntaxes. I'd like to see how specific the clusters get (at the moment they seem very general.) I want to see a little more information on the search results listing (at the very least page size.) But this is a good start; I like how they've made a clustering representation that's apparently accessible to all browsers. One to watch.

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