MetaFilter posts tagged with searchengine and search

Ebook search engine

stbalbach — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:52:07 -0800

Inkmesh ebook search engine will search across these sites finding free books and comparing prices. Video.

An infinitely expanding field of boxes, each containing one thing

ardgedee — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:01:43 -0800

Spezify is a metasearch engine. The interface is in Flash.

Web of Research

gman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:58:31 -0800

"Worio is a discovery engine that works alongside keyword search to expose you to stuff you've been missing using search alone." (via) FAQ

Google x Google

Zarkonnen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:13:05 -0800

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. Being experimental, Squared does well on some things but (perhaps amusingly) less well on others. (The precise results keep on changing due to curation and whatnot, so things may have changed by the time you read this.) The idea of returning structured search results is hardly new or unique to Google, of course.

Search like it's 2001...

HaloMan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:35:47 -0800

To celebrate their 10th birthday Google have brought back their oldest available index dating back to 2001.

Where's my image?

monospace — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:30:35 -0800

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Every day TinEye's spiders crawl the web for additional images. Using sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for each one and adds it to the index. When you want to find out where an image is being used on the web, you submit it to TinEye. The attributes of the image are analyzed instantly, and its fingerprint is compared to the fingerprint of every single image in the TinEye search index. The result? A detailed list of any websites using that image, worldwide.

Google Search Engine Ranking Factors v2

Soup — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:37:23 -0800

Google Search Engine Ranking Factors v2 "represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. Together, they have voted on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google's ranking algorithm." The highest ranked factor is Keyword Use in Title Tag.

cuil kids?

Ynoxas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:24:24 -0800

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. Other reports (Slashdot) show that others are having trouble with access as well. Surely the people behind this have enough experience at Google to realize you have to have orders of magnitude of capacity above what you think you need to make sure all search is fast, accurate, and error free. I can't take this seriously if they can't even handle first day traffic. Techcrunch has a different take on breadth. And all black vs all white background. Really?

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.

"It's simple - reeeaal simple."

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:59:51 -0800

Sputtr is a front-end for searching a variety of popular sites, of course dipped in some Web 2.0 sauce.

Web 2.0 clichés abound in Yahoo! Oz's new search product

Milkman Dan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:39:20 -0800

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.)

How many fingers in how many pies?

ashbury — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:23:28 -0800

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?

The search engine is dead! Long live the search agent!

davehat — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:02:26 -0800

blinkx is a new contextual search agent that seems to be causing some excitement. Unfortunately, it is not available for Macintosh or Mozilla at present.

corn is king

JohnR — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:56:35 -0800

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)

Mining the Deep Web

badstone — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:56:00 -0800

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.

This item has been discontinued.

troybob — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:10:48 -0800

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.

grub - distibuted search engine

talos — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:44:06 -0800

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?

GeoURL

pzarquon — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 02:10:44 -0800

Forget BlogChalking. Go by the globe. A (slightly) simpler cousin of the GeoTags search engine (which I could never get useful information from anyway), the GeoURL ICBM Address Server (by Joshua Schachter of Memepool) pegs sites to specific points on the planet via good old-fashioned coordinates and META tags. While the web supposedly has no borders, many sites - like blogs - have a place at their heart, a virtual (if not physical) home. Now you can see if your site has neighbors. [Via Blogdex - More Inside]

A warning shot in the dark.

beagle — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:41:34 -0800

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.

CosmicSlop — Wed, 15 May 2002 09:00:25 -0800

BBC funds ad-free, porn-free search engine. Fueled by UK television license fees and Google search technology, the engine doesn't kick out results from paying advertisers. News article here.

DragonBoy — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:36:30 -0800

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?

danec — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:56:52 -0800

Google Catalog Search uses Google technology to search thousands of scanned mail-order catalogs, from industrial adhesives to designer clothing and gourmet food.

ewagoner — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:51:48 -0800

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.

pracowity — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 05:12:52 -0800

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".)

SilentSalamander — Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:10:57 -0800

Lasoo, location-based search engine. Really slick. They've improved it a lot since I last visited.