Seekscan Search Engine Searches Many Types of Information

It's interesting to see a general search engine that in addition to the standard "News" and "Images," adds to its search tabs "Weblogs" and "Reference." Seekscan ( http://www.seekscan.com ) also has a couple of additional tabs available.

Seekscan is a meta-search engine with a slight difference; instead of aggregating results, generates search results pages from different engines and presents them in one framed interface. For example, do a search for "three blind mice." The search page will present you with links to search results pages from a variety of engines including Lycos, Google, Yahoo, HotBot, and Teoma. Click on a source page and you'll get the search results for that page.

It works the same for the other specialty searches, including news, Weblogs, and reference. And though I found that some of the sources could be tweaked a little (it would be nice if the AlltheWeb news page listed results by date instead of relevance, and I couldn't get any results from their Technorati page at all) it's an nice way to search several sources at once.

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