So, would a search engine be more useful if it just didn't include the Most Popular websites? How about the
ONE MILLION most popular websites?
Fortunately, it lets you adjust the filter to exclude the top 100,000, 10,000, thousand, hundred or ten. MetaFilter reappears under the 'thousand' setting.
Via WaxyLinks and HackerNews
posted by oneswellfoop
on May 1, 2012 -
12 comments
Busk is a search engine dedicated to items which are in the news. It gathers the results from thousands of sites and many of them contain full content including pictures, videos, and podcasts.
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posted by gman
on Jun 2, 2010 -
15 comments
"
Worio is a discovery engine that works alongside keyword search to expose you to stuff you've been missing using search alone." (
via)
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posted by gman
on Jun 17, 2009 -
17 comments
Google has released an experimental search tool,
Google Squared, that presents search results in the form of a table. Each column represents some attribute or dimension of the things returned - for example, searching for
US presidents yields a column for date of birth, and rows for Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, etc.
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posted by Zarkonnen
on Jun 5, 2009 -
70 comments
Cuil is a new search engine developed by former Google employees, and claims to index 3x more pages than Google.
CNN Money story has the basics. My attempts were met with timeouts.
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posted by Ynoxas
on Jul 28, 2008 -
189 comments
Yahoo! Australia introduces a new search engine that uses OpenSearch and pretty little AJAX tricks to integrate results from Flickr, Wikpedia, YouTube (and so on). You can customize the layout, and even add your own search sources. It’s called Alpha, it’s currently in Beta, and aims to get through the rest of the Greek alphabet by June. (Via
podlob.)
posted by Milkman Dan
on Apr 10, 2007 -
13 comments
Microsoft has unleashed their internet
search engine to the world. It currently isn't working, at least for me. Is it wrong of me to wish it stays that way?
posted by ashbury
on Nov 11, 2004 -
43 comments
I found these images,
one,
two, when I typed in “tent” in the “search all fields” field and selected image as resource type. The site is
OAIster, which is a digital library, which has 3,273,233 records from 301 institutions. Its my new magic eight ball. (
via)
posted by JohnR
on Jun 20, 2004 -
15 comments
Mining the Deep Web. Google indexes 4 billion pages, but there are hundreds of billions of documents out there in
the Deep Web that are effectively unreachable by search engines because they are locked in databases or are unsearchable media. It looks like Yahoo is going to start giving us a peek by providing unified access to a wide variety of sites that are ordinarily only searchable by their own custom search engines.
posted by badstone
on Mar 2, 2004 -
12 comments
Amazon as search engine. Is it just me, or does every search on Amazon.com result in 90% results for discontinued items or stuff they don't bother to sell? I'm not very confident.
posted by troybob
on Sep 25, 2003 -
11 comments
Grub: The seti@home of search engines? According to the
New Scientist:
"A distributed computing project called
Grub, which harnesses individual users' spare computing power and internet bandwidth, began cataloguing millions of web pages this week."
Grub
has thus launched before
HyperBee, a similar distributed search project.
This link was
previously posted on MeFi when it was still in the conceptual stage.
The project is being run by
LookSmart (along with its own open directory project called
zeal) but as the New Scientist article notes: "Website information collected by Grub is already being fed into one of LookSmart's search services, called
WiseNut. But the collected data are also freely accessible to the public, so they can be incorporated into any web site or desktop application."
Possible Google competition or doomed from the start?
posted by talos
on Apr 21, 2003 -
10 comments
A warning shot in the dark: For connoisseurs of clever turns of phrase: The phrase "a warning shot in the dark" popped out at me from a Google News preview panel as being a mixed metaphor. Indeed, a
Google search reveals that the phrase has
never before been used on the entire Web, which is rather amazing. Delving into the story, it appears by paragraph three that the mixed metaphors are appropriate, in this case.
posted by beagle
on Nov 27, 2002 -
35 comments
Teoma takes on Google?
Ask Jeves launched its new search engine yesterday aimed at challenging Google for the best search engine on the web. Teoma offers options to narrow your search using "subject-specific popularity."
For example, if someone searched for the name "
Bill Clinton," Teoma offers ways to refine your search, showing links to topics related to your search, such as "Clinton Scandal" and "Monica Lewinsky."
Will this search engine replace Google as the SE of choice for the Internet savvy? Also, what other search engines do you use?
posted by DragonBoy
on Apr 2, 2002 -
36 comments
Google Catalog Search uses Google technology to search thousands of scanned mail-order catalogs, from industrial adhesives to designer clothing and gourmet food.
posted by danec
on Dec 14, 2001 -
33 comments
FindSounds.com is your source for on-line sound effects. Their search engine has found and catalogued sounds in several formats. You can search by name, and their spectral analyzer can help you find sounds similar to your search results.
posted by ewagoner
on Oct 15, 2001 -
17 comments
Sex no longer interesting. "All the major search engines reported that the word 'sex' had fallen out of their top ten search terms for the first time in the web's young history, replaced with the likes of 'BBC' and 'CNN'." (Scroll down to "SARAH LEFT ON INTERNET NEWS".)
posted by pracowity
on Sep 28, 2001 -
14 comments
For Sale. Pre-owned Search Engine $250,000,000 o.n.o
Google is hinting at an end of year IPO for a measley $250 million. Is this the beginning of the end of the dot-com crash?.
Via The Register.
posted by fullerine
on Jun 25, 2001 -
22 comments
Interesting idea, but will it work? "Grub provides a free for download, distributed crawling client, which is used to create an infrastructure (database + volunteers) that will eventually provide URL update status information for nearly every web page on the Internet. Grub's distributed crawler network will enable websites, content providers, and individuals to notify others that changes have occurred in their content, all in real time"
posted by sixdifferentways
on May 18, 2001 -
0 comments
Altavista to become only search engine Not really, but they do plan on enforcing several search-related patents that they have, hoping to increase revenue by extorting other search companies. "We believe that virtually everyone out there who indexes the Web is in violation of at least several of those key patents.... If you index a distributed set of databases - what the Internet is - and even within intranets, corporations, that's one of the patents," says CMGI CEO David Wetherell.
posted by daveadams
on Jan 18, 2001 -
25 comments
Stuck in the past? Ok, while this is hardly news it's annoying as hell. No matter what I search for, it doesn't pull any articles up after 1/1/2001. What's worse is they don't appear to have ANY contact emails for anyone other then a frustrating "feedback" form. Grrrr. There's got to be other comprehensive live news search sites....
posted by bkdelong
on Jan 6, 2001 -
3 comments
Has Google finally sold out? You may have already seen this via
Robot Wisdom - evidence that Google has monkeyed with their search engine to give preference to partner Yahoo!'s pages.
I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but I'm sad. Anyone know of a better search engine on the horizon that still has integrity?
posted by straight
on Sep 13, 2000 -
8 comments
SearchBots.net is a search engine, or a weblog, or yet another grituitous Flash site, depending on how you look at it. I think it's neato.
posted by endquote
on Jun 7, 2000 -
2 comments
Google appears to be
telling a story with their logo. Is this a fun and creative way to "extend their brand" (as the marcom kids like to say) or do they need to stop letting their engineers handle their logo design?
posted by jkottke
on May 2, 2000 -
22 comments
Oh my, talk about your imperfect applications of technology. I'm searching for an image of one of those "Hello my name is..." badges for a little joke, so I tried out
Lycos' image search engine. After about five pages into the search for images containing "hello", a porn image would pop up on almost every search page. "Hello" is a generic term, so there's pictures of babies and kids right next to some gnarly stuff. Here's
an example of a kid and a hello kitty image juxtaposed between some interesting images.
Here's another: doll, doll, people screwing each other's brains out, hello kitty mouse....
posted by mathowie
on Mar 6, 2000 -
4 comments
My god, does the new Altavista look butt-ugly. Can you find anything anymore? I could barely see the search box when I first loaded it. And that new logo? Yawn..... And what's up with the new slogan? Smart is beautiful? What's next: 'Altavista: Check out the size of our brains'?
posted by mathowie
on Oct 25, 1999 -
0 comments
