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August 03, 2005Dogpile Combines the Big Four
Meta-search engine Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ) announced yesterday that it's now combining results from MSN Search, Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves. I like that combination of search engines, but these results creep me a little bit. I did a search...
January 12, 2005Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapo
I know a search engine that gathers results from many other search engines is called a meta-search engine. However I don't know what it's called when a site gathers many interfaces via a frame to allow you to do a...
Continue reading "Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapo" » September 30, 2004Vivisimo Launches New Search Engine
Vivisimo has launched a new search engine, Clusty. I'm going to get in a lot of trouble because I keep wanting to type "Crusty" instead of "Clusty" but let's continue anyway. You can get it at http://www.clusty.com ; as you...
June 14, 2004Vivisimo Gets Clustery With Slashdot, Open Source
A bucket of props to his Internetness Gary Price ( http://www.resourceshelf.com ) for pointing to new clustering options at meta-search engine Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ); there's an option now to cluster results from Slashdot ( http://vivisimo.com/slashdot ) as well as...
Continue reading "Vivisimo Gets Clustery With Slashdot, Open Source" » February 23, 2004ZapMeta Meta-Search Offers Nice Set of Web Features
As I've said before, I'm not a big meta-search engine fan. I can usually find what I want using one search engine. But when you show me a meta-search that offers a nice selection of search engines to choose from...
Continue reading "ZapMeta Meta-Search Offers Nice Set of Web Features" » February 10, 2004Meta Search Engine Mamma Makes Some Upgrades
Search Engine Mamma announced last week that they've added some functionality to their meta-search engine. New features include: - Search Math -- I've never heard it called "Search Math" before, but all right. It's simply the ability to use +...
Continue reading "Meta Search Engine Mamma Makes Some Upgrades" » February 09, 2004Seekscan 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...
Continue reading "Seekscan Search Engine Searches Many Types of Information" » December 08, 2003Vivisimo Getting Toolbars and Minibars
Metasearch engine Vivisimo is rolling out the search engine toolbars. The minibar is at http://vivisimo.com/minibar -- you'll need Windows and IE to use it. The toolbar is at http://vivisimo.com/toolbar and offers a few additional features -- again, you'll need Windows...
October 02, 2003Dogpile Adds a Couple Features to Its Toolbar
Metasearch engine Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ) announced yesterday a couple of additions to its Dogpile Search Toolbar (available for download at http://www.dogpile.com/toolbar.htm .) The toolbar, like most toolbars, is IE only. The new enhancements include a scrolling news ticker that...
Continue reading "Dogpile Adds a Couple Features to Its Toolbar" » September 23, 2003Search 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...
Continue reading "Search Engine Fazzle Has Interesting Features" » September 09, 2002InfoSpace Bags Google, Revamps MetaCrawler
InfoSpace has revamped its meta-search engine MetaCrawler ( http://www.metacrawler.com .). The search engine now returns results from Google as well as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, Inktomi, LookSmart, Excite, OpenDirectory, Overture, and Sprinks. In addition to a Web search, MetaCrawler...
Continue reading "InfoSpace Bags Google, Revamps MetaCrawler" » December 26, 2001Turbo10 Opens Their Site to Specialty Search Engines
Metasearch engine Turbo10 ( http://turbo10.com) announced this week that specialty search engines can register their engines at Turbo10 and have results from their engines included on Turbo10's site. You can access the sign up form at http://turbo10.com/cgi-bin/joinupengine1.cgi. I'm not much...
Continue reading "Turbo10 Opens Their Site to Specialty Search Engines" » December 25, 2000BrightPlanet Adds To Database Collection
BrightPlanet, collector of pointers to the "Invisible Web," has more than doubled the size of its searchable database catalog. Their "database of databases" now has 38,500 entries and can be accessed at: http://www.completeplanet.com . That link has a search form...
Continue reading "BrightPlanet Adds To Database Collection" » November 21, 2000Search Engine Clusters Results Into Folders
... and no, it's not Northern Light. Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ) is a "clustering engine" (meta-search engine, actually) that acts in a very interesting way. It picks up results from your search and divides them into several folders. The results...
Continue reading "Search Engine Clusters Results Into Folders" » August 21, 2000MetaEureka Makes Changes
Search engine MetaEureka ( http://www.metaeureka.com/ ) has added several categories to its site. You may now do meta-searches of the following topics: -- News (ABC News, CNN, MSNBC) -- Usenet (CNET Help (??!) Deja, RemarQ (I thought they shut down?))...
May 15, 2000New Metasearch Engine Provides Cool Twist
Does the world need another metasearch engine? If it adds the groovy twist that METAEUREKA ( http://www.metaeureka.com/) provides, the answer is oh my my, oh heck yeah. METAEUREKA has a 'tude. They promise no graphics on their pages, no news,...
Continue reading "New Metasearch Engine Provides Cool Twist" » April 07, 2000SmartEngine Meta-Search Debuts at Internet World
SmartEngine -- http://www.smartengine.com/ -- is a new meta-search engine that offers metasearching in the following categories: web, auctions, images, and audio. They also offer a search of the SmartGuide, which looks to be a repackaged Dmoz database. The front page...
Continue reading "SmartEngine Meta-Search Debuts at Internet World" » March 17, 2000Ixquick Meta-Search Engine Gets Multi-Lingual
Meta-Search Engine Ixquick ( http://www.ixquick.com/ ), last mentioned in the February 13 ResearchBuzz, has added several languages to its interface. You can now search sets of French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Web sites (Look at the bottom of the...
Continue reading "Ixquick Meta-Search Engine Gets Multi-Lingual" » February 19, 2000Mohomine mohoEngine
From the press release: "Mohomine was founded in 1999 by Sameer Samat, now chief technology officer, along with three other computer science students from the University of California. Late last year the company launched the mohoEngine(TM), a new and proprietary...
February 13, 2000Ixquick
A reader writes in to recommend meta-search engine Ixquick ( http://www.ixquick.com/ ). Ixquick meta-searches news, MP3 directories, and the Web. Interesting thing about it is that it awards one star for each search engine that places a site in its...
February 11, 2000Skworm metasearch engine
Metasearch engine Skworm ( http://www.skworm.com/) offers meta searching in lots of different categories. Instead of pulling back the results on their own page, though, Skworm offers a framed page and frames the search results from each engine or resource. It...
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