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February 14, 2006Kosmix Search Engine Has Three Categories of Search Available
I do not like reviewing search engines on the basis of them being "the next Google killer" or whatever. I do like reviewing them on the basis of them doing interesting and useful stuff. And it's in that spirit that...
Continue reading "Kosmix Search Engine Has Three Categories of Search Available" » December 30, 2005Navisso Web Search Goes to Open Beta
The Navisso search engine has announced an open beta. You can check it out at http://navisso.com/. While the front page is pretty simple, a little digging reveals some nice features -- like stemming, fr'instance! Unfortunately the actual results leave something...
September 21, 2005Dumbfind Search Engine Enters Beta 3
If you're into search engines which offer results refinement, or you like exploring more results within the domain of search results pages, check out search engine Dumbfind, which is now entering its third beta at http://www.dumbfind.com . Dumbfind offers two...
May 24, 2005New Search Engine: CliqueSearch
There's a new search engine on the block, and while I appreciate the attitude and some of the aspects of the layout, I'm somewhat distressed by the relevance. The site is called BigClique and it's available at http://www.bigclique.com . (I'd...
April 27, 2005Directory of Niche Sites
This was built to help Webmasters, but I think it's pretty groovy for researchers too so I'm going to cover it. The Incoming Links Development Guide and Directory, at http://www.incominglinks.com/ , lists niche sites with guidelines on how to become...
March 30, 2005IceRocket Has Some New Searches
IceRocket, last mentioned in ResearchBuzz in August has a few new searches you might find of interest....
March 29, 2005Topic Hunter Meta Search In Several Different Categories
I am generally not a big fan of meta-search engines, but Topic Hunter isn't bad. Actually it's not what I consider a meta-search engine -- meta-search engines, to me, aggregate results from a variety of resources. Instead Topic Hunter points...
Continue reading "Topic Hunter Meta Search In Several Different Categories" » January 03, 2005Rocketinfo Releases A News Search API
News search engine Rocketinfo has released a news search API. The announcement is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/iwpr?id=77677&cat=CUST , but the announcement says to actually GET the API you have to e-mail Rocketinfo at help@rocketinfo.com . Feh! More information from the announcement: "The...
New Search Engine Nokodo Launches
Nokodo's been in beta for a while, but officially launched on January first. This full-text search engine is available at http://nokodo.com/ . While this site has some decent features, it also lacks some basic offerings. Like results count. I did...
December 21, 2004New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-O
There's a new search engine called Blingo, now available at http://www.blingo.com/ . The twist to this site is that when you search you have a chance to win a price. This is giving me twitchy little reminders of iWon (remember...
Continue reading "New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-O" » December 15, 2004Accoona, A New Search Engine
The new search engine is called Accoona, and it got a lot of press attention because former President Bill Clinton helped launch it ( http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736894,00.asp ). Bill Clinton gets to launch a search engine and Whoopi Goldberg had to flog...
November 05, 2004Speegle Search Engine Talks to You
You know, of all the search engine innovations I dream of at night having search results read back to me in a Scots accent was right up there. Okay, no it wasn't. But what an interesting idea. Speegle ( http://www.speegle.co.uk...
October 20, 2004New UK-Specific Search Engine -- UKWizz
If the ratio of silly name to success is any indication, UK-specific search engine UKWizz is well on the way. It's available at http://www.ukwizz.com . UKWizz is designed as a UK-only search engine, but as their Web page says, "Our...
Continue reading "New UK-Specific Search Engine -- UKWizz" » New Search Engine -- Exalead
I'm not sure why the top of the page says 1 billion pages and the bottom of the page says 302,533,532 Web documents, but I'll go with it. The search engine is called Exalead and it's available at http://beta.exalead.com/search ....
October 11, 2004GoHook Adds PDF and Audio Files
I covered GoHook last January as a site that indexed completed eBay auctions. Since then it's expanded a little bit... If you go to http://www.gohook.com now you'll see that you have the option to search PDF files and audio files...
October 10, 2004Gigablast Grows
Gigablast announced last week that they'd grown from 450 million to 650 million pages indexed during the last few months. Gigablast has also grown its staff, too, and has moved to a larger headquarters. Grats to Gigablast....
October 05, 2004Clush Offers Option for Meaning-Based Search
It's sorta clustering, but it looks more to me like the old "concept" or meaning-based searches for the late 90s, ala Oingo and Simpli. The engine is called Clush and the location is http://www.clush.com . What color there is on...
Continue reading "Clush Offers Option for Meaning-Based Search" » September 17, 2004The Search Engine Watch Blog
Congratulations to the good folks at Search Engine Watch! They've started a new 'blog at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/. Contributors include Gary Price (hey man!) and Danny Sullivan....
September 09, 2004Peerbot Offers Searching by Favicon
You know what favicons are? They're little teeny icons that show up on the address bar in at least Opera, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer. You can get information on what they are and how to put them together at http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/favicons.php...
Redball Search Engine Rolling in Austria On October 1
I see lots and lots of press releases about new search engines. But this one from Redball ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040907/uktu004_1.html ) from September 7 was most intriguing. Don't go running to http://www.redball.info to check out the engine; it hasn't launched yet...
Continue reading "Redball Search Engine Rolling in Austria On October 1" » September 07, 2004Wotbox Rolls Out Country-Specific Search Engines
Search engine Wotbox, last covered by ResearchBuzz about a year ago ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/000352.shtml ) has announced that they've started country-specific sites. Here's the list: Australia - http://www.wotbox.com.au Canada - http://ca.wotbox.com France - http://fr.wotbox.com Germany - http://www.wotbox.de Italy - http://www.wotbox.it New...
Continue reading "Wotbox Rolls Out Country-Specific Search Engines" » August 31, 2004BoardReader is Now Using Vivisimo
Clustering search engine Vivisimo is now being used by forum search engine BoardReader (http://www.boardreader.com/. ) I did a search for mulberries and got category results including trees, birds, peaches, wine, and .. equipment on D-Day?...
August 05, 2004Icerocket Search Engine Offers Searches by E-Mail
I saw a news article about Icerocket -- it must be several months ago now, and I think it was in the Las Vegas Business Journal. At any rate, when I went to check on it there wasn't much there....
Continue reading "Icerocket Search Engine Offers Searches by E-Mail" » April 19, 2004Microsoft Opens Up Its Own Sandbox of Search Technology
All of a sudden there are all kinds of fun search experiments out there. Microsoft is opening its own with the MSN Sandbox, available at http://sandbox.msn.com . What's here varies a lot. There's a pointer to the MSN Newsbot, a...
Continue reading "Microsoft Opens Up Its Own Sandbox of Search Technology" » April 15, 2004Amazon's Search Portal
Yeah, you read that right. Amazon's got a search portal (well, they've got a wholly-owned subsidiary that's a search portal.) Pardon me whilst I go get an aspirin. They're not running their own crawler; they've got a strange mishmash of...
April 12, 2004MozDex Open Search Engine In Beta
Last week was the beta launch of mozDex, described as "an Open search system built on open source technologies." The engine uses the Nutch open source search engine, and is seeded with URLs from the Open Directory Project. It is...
February 26, 2004Sootle the Search Engine
First they launched, then they relaunched, and now they're launched again in alpha. What is it? It's Sootle! Sootle ( http://www.sootle.net ) is not a meta-search but a standalone search engine and is, as noted, in Alpha. Sootle has a...
February 04, 2004New Stuff At Gigablast
Gigablast, also known as the little search engine that could (well, that's how I know it, anyway) is offering a few new options. First thing is the inclusion of direct links to the Internet archives -- pretty dang smart. Go...
December 30, 2003Mooter 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...
Continue reading "Mooter Search Engine Clusters, Even With Opera" » December 29, 2003Search Engine Offers Web Search and Site Search
Where do they come up with these search engine names? Is there some kind of law that says the odder and more onomatopoeic the name, the greater chance of the search engine's success? Perhaps so. At any rate, let's talk...
Continue reading "Search Engine Offers Web Search and Site Search" » September 19, 2003Wotbot Changes Name to Wotbox
It's not Wotbot any more, it's Wotbox ( http://www.wotbox.com/ ). Wotbox, if you remember, is a smaller full-text engine (it searches six million pages) with a plain-vanilla search box on the front page. For more fun, visit the advanced search...
September 03, 2003Whittlebit Search Engine
Whittlebit ( http://whittlebit.com/index.php ) is a search engine which as I understand it launched in July. It's odd, and yet somehow cool, to see a search engine with Google ads on the front page. Whittlebit is called such because you...
August 15, 2003Daypop Expands its Source List to over 55,000
Weblog and News search engine Daypop ( http://www.daypop.com ) now has over 55,000 sources -- Weblogs and news sites. ( http://www.danchan.com/weblog/daypop/71650 ). As you might remember, Daypop allows you to search Weblogs, news sites, and RSS headlines. Be sure to...
Continue reading "Daypop Expands its Source List to over 55,000" » June 02, 2003dWoz is not DMOZ
All right, if it's not DMOZ, what is it? It's dWoz ( http://www.dwoz.com/), and it's a searchable subject index designed for Webmasters with over 1500 sites. Unlike many searchable subject indexes on the 'Net it is a closed list, with...
January 06, 2003The Search Engine Ultimate Interface
FaganFinder's got its Search Engine Ultimate Interface in beta, finally. You can check it out at http://www.faganfinder.com/engines.html but you'll have to use IE, I think -- I couldn't get it to work in Opera 6.x (maybe Mozilla?) Anyway, the...
December 30, 2002Get Search Engine forms With SearchEnginez
A nice collection of search engines complete with forms integrated into the site is available at SearchEngines ( http://searchenginez.com/ ). The front page provides a drop-down menu of several different search categories at the top of the page, including search...
Continue reading "Get Search Engine forms With SearchEnginez" » December 25, 2002Internet Search Engine Database
I like ISEDB.com, the Internet Search Engine Database, at http://www.isedb.com/ . This site provides information on directories and search engines, as well as articles and news. From the front page you'll see pages for listings of search engines and directories....
July 24, 2002Search Engine Gigablast Enters Beta
Search engine Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ) blasted into beta last weekend. And while they have a comparatively small index (73M pages), there are some good ideas here. Do a simple search on the front page or use the advanced search...
July 04, 2002Search Engine Openfind Enters Beta TestJanuary 31, 2002Search Engine Compares Terms
This is cute -- a little Web tool that one can use to compare the popularity of two terms in a search engine AND compare the occurrence of another keyword in pages containing the compared words. Not clear? It might...
November 07, 2001Hopeful Distributed Search Engine Buzzin' Around the Net
HyperBee (http://www.hyperbee.com/ ) is a hopeful distributed search engine. What is a distributed search engine? You may have heard about the Seti@Home computer program. It's a screensaver that you download. When it activates, it downloads a chunk of data from...
Continue reading "Hopeful Distributed Search Engine Buzzin' Around the Net" » May 17, 2001Search Engine Site Provides Grouped Resources
QuickFindIt (http://www.quickfindit.com/) creates "channels" of search engines that allow you to search in different categories fairly quickly. Channels are limited, but they appear to be going for depth rather than width, and there's a handy reference channel. Here's how it...
Continue reading "Search Engine Site Provides Grouped Resources" » May 16, 2001IntelliSeek Launches ProFusion.com
IntelliSeek announced yesterday the official launch of ProFusion.com (http://www.profusion.com/ ; it's been in public beta since February.) The new site has ditched the banner ads and now adds 1000 resources in over 200 search groups. I went and looked...
March 07, 2001Sun Buys InfraSearch
InfraSearch, which later redirected its site to GoneSilent ( http://www.gonesilent.com/ ) was acquired by Sun Microsystems yesterday, according to http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010306/sftu070.html . There is no notice of this on the GoneSilent site I can find, and unfortunately there's no indication of...
February 08, 2001Researchville.com -- Prefilled Search Engine Queries
It's sort of like a meta-search engine, but not. Researchville.com ( http://www.researchville.com ) gives you a box to enter a query, then lets you choose a search engine -- or several search engines. For example, say you wanted to search...
Continue reading "Researchville.com -- Prefilled Search Engine Queries" » February 06, 2001Beta of ProFusion Search Engine Launched
Intelliseek announced yesterday the launch of ProFusion, a "deep web" search engine. It's available at http://beta.profusion.com . You can do a regular meta-search from ProFusion, but you can also browse for "vertical search engines," and then search with them. For...
Continue reading "Beta of ProFusion Search Engine Launched" » January 15, 2001Bitpipe Adds Wireless Materials to Its IT Search Engine
Bitpipe announced last week that it's added 60 new subjects and 650 new research documents to its wireless database. That brings their search engine up to 10,000 research documents on 1,500 subjects from 1,250 vendors and analyst groups. If you're...
Continue reading "Bitpipe Adds Wireless Materials to Its IT Search Engine" » November 28, 2000Pandia Offers News Search Engine
Pandia has launched a new meta-search engine for news at at http://www.pandia.com/news/ . This site searches at least BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal and Moreover. I also see the Washington Post in the results. Basic Boolean seems...
September 05, 2000This Month in SearchEngineWatch.com
I don't usually do a "this morning in searchenginewatch.com" note, but Danny Sullivan had a lot of good stuff this month. "Finding Articles Online" ( http://w ww.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/00/09-articles.html ) gives an overview of Northern Light and FindArticles.com, "And Then There Was...
June 22, 2000Question: What's New in Searchable Subject Indexes?
One of the things I like about Yahoo is that you can search for items added to the list within a certain number of days. Yet I do not see a way to do this with a couple of other...
Continue reading "Question: What's New in Searchable Subject Indexes?" » April 29, 2000Yet Another User-Rated Site Index Hits the Scene
Zeal.com ( http://www.zeal.com ) aims to be, as its press release says, "an interactive web directory powered by the enthusiasm, knowledge, and experience of its members." It's currently in its preview version. Upon entering the site you're presented with a...
Continue reading "Yet Another User-Rated Site Index Hits the Scene" » March 14, 2000Lycos and Singapore Telecom Offer Malaysian Portal
Lycos Asia (a joint venture between Lycos and Singapore Telecom) have launched Lycos Malaysia at http://my.lycosasia.com/ . The site I'm looking at is in English, and contains local information and pointers to local guides off the front page. The search...
Continue reading "Lycos and Singapore Telecom Offer Malaysian Portal" » February 22, 2000Meaning-Based Searching
Traffick has an overview article on meaning-based searching. They cover Oingo, SimpliFind, and a new one I hadn't heard of called ejemoni. http://www.traffick.com/s tory.asp?StoryID=57...
Private Search Engine from TopClick
TopClick announced today the launch of what they're calling their "Private Search Engine" service. The engine is built around the following promises (from the press release): 1. No unsolicited banner advertising will appear in the search results (customers will be...
February 17, 2000Meaning-based searching
Meaning-based searching: fascinating article from Wired. CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT! That's what it's all about! Hokey pokey! http://www.wired .com/wired/archive/8.02/autonomy.html...
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