Live.com (Microsoft’s new approach to searching) now provides a different way of searching than before. Its algorithm changed a little to display different content (rather than just search results) for specific search terms.
These improvements range from having an automatic display of movie showtimes to showing a comparison of shopping results when a user […]
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SquidWho was almost added to the people search page on MultiZ, but a simple test eliminated it from being added.
What the site has to offer
It offers a user-collaborative way of obtaining content about people. So, users are allowed to submit any information about anyone, and this results in speculations and rumors about celebrities, famous […]
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Zippy.co.uk is a decent metasearch engine that allows the user to search, but then also gives the user a quick way to check site statistics:
And then gather information about a site by clicking “information” to the lower-right of the site:
And then finally the information is displayed to the right-hand column:
That’s a simple and quick way […]
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Here’s just some stats and traffic on the popular online search engines.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings in April 2007:
Google has the largest share of U.S. based web searches at 55.2%
Yahoo is second at 21.9%
MSN is third at 9.0%
AOL is fourth at 5.4% - powered by Google
Ask is fifth at 1.8%.
Other, small search engines according […]
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By this time many have heard of the underdog search engine named MyLiveSearch that debuted earlier last month for beta testers — it has potential but as seen below that stats for Google have not worsened in the last month:
But now comes Cuill (pronounced the same as in “cool”). According to TechCrunch:
The company’s main […]
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Visualized search engines contain the common goal of giving you a preview of the site or giving you a visual representation of the data before going to the site.
Without a doubt, the top 3 visualized search engines are Alexa, PageBull and Snap. In one way or another they provide thumbnails sketches or pictures by […]
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