New Search Engines Category Archive
A9 Launches OpenSearch
With the slogan "We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content," A9 has launched its OpenSearch initiative. With OpenSearch, anyone can create their own search button for A9's options on the right. Some examples already listed on their Add More Columns page include searches for the New York Times, Flickr photos, Wikipedia, ThinkGeek, PubMed, and A9 Top Blogs....
Clusty Adds U.S. Government Database
Clusty, Vivisimo's new clustering meta search engine, has added a new government search available both as a tab and a direct search site. It includes FirstGov, various think tanks, U.S. political news, and some subject-specific collections....
Visual, Virtual Yellow Pages at A9
Amazon and their A9.com has introduced a fascinating "Find it on the Block" ability to browse pictures of business store fronts in select U.S. markets. With millions of photos, this allows users to browse streets in the ten cities currently available. For a searcher, this offer a very different kind of search database. Read more in Chris' extensive review and the company's own description of how they did it....
New Engine: Exalead Beta
From France comes a fascinating new search engine known as Exalead. Gary Price has many details in his SEW Blog post. Key search features include truncation, proximity, and some nice sorting of results. This is one to watch....
Clusty from Vivisimo
Vivisimo has launched a new search site called Clusty which provides another look at Vivisimo's clustering capabilities. A nice, new design, with tabs for Web, News, Images, Shopping, Encyclopedia, and Gossip, the underlying databases are not new or original. What is new is that packaging. For those that like the clustering, meta-search approach, Clusty is well worth a visit....
Amazon Launches A9 Search Engine
Amazon has now launched a search engine known as A9 at A9.com. The Web and Image searches use Google databases. A9 also has some other unique features. It includes access to the Amazon product database, of course, along with movie information from the Internet Movie Database and reference sources from GuruNet. And for those who log in with their Amazon user ID and password, it also keeps track of search histories, has a Diary for keeping notes about Web pages, and offers a bookmarking capability. There is also an A9 toolbar. Their press release notes that "A9.com, Inc., a separately...
Clush
Clush is a new search engine, with its own small database. It has thumbnail images of the Web pages and provides a variety of clustering options. Its press release mentions that it has a paid inclusion program. It also has the ability for users to rate the search results....
Mooter: A New Clustering Search Engine:
A new search engine from Australia, Mooter Search is available in beta, although the site has gone done a few times recently. Mooter divides results into clusters with a diagram. Clicking the "Moot Quicker!" button gives the clusters on the left and search results on the right. The underlying database is not clearly identified but according to Pandia uses a combination of meta search and some of their own crawling....
New! GigaBlast in Beta
GigaBlast launched in beta today. While much smaller than the recently launched Openfind, it offers some nice advantages. It includes cached copies of the pages it indexes, like Google. It includes an advanced search, date sorting, field searching, and excellent reporting of both the date spidered and the last modified date. It does lack full Boolean, truncation, and other advanced search features. See the Search Engine Showdown review for more on its search features....
OpenFind: New Beta Search Engine
OpenFind is a new search engine in beta. It claims a 3.5 billion record database, but it includes many blanks and duplicates such as www.searchengineshowdown.com and searchengineshowdown.com. Also, while phrase searching sometimes works, it is not dependable. On at least one search, it found my two terms adjacent but in the opposite order. It is very much a beta product with no documentation, but it does have some very interesting features such as sorting by date and size, and a proxy link that highlights search text in the actual page....
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