DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result Mashup

More searching and mashup goodness! Whoopee! This time it's a project from the Computer Science department at Northwestern University. It's called DoubleTrust and it's at http://www.doubletrust.net .

What DoubleTrust does is combine the results of Google and Yahoo into one enormous page of search results. You can also tilt your search results one way or another depending on which search engine you prefer.

When you visit the site (love the logo btw) you'll see a query box and a pull-down menu that allows you to specify results by saying you trust one of the two search engines more (there's two levels of trust you can specify) or that you trust both results equally.

The search results show you the top results for both search engines, and below that show you the "Orphans" -- pages that show up in only one of the two search engines. Results are presented in tables which contain page title, URL, size, and top-level domain. The TLD is color-coded so you can get an idea, at a glance, if there's a TLD that is heavily represented in a set of orphaned results.

On the front page next to the pulldown menu there's a teeny "more options" link. Don't miss that; it allows you to get more statistics with your search results. The additional statistics available at the moment (more are promised) show the representation of TLDs between the two search engines as percentages. You can also specify more than 40 results to be shown in the "more options" area. This is nifty.

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