MetaFilter posts tagged with searchengine

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.

My favorite was Altavista, because of the Babelfish.

sugarfish — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:01:26 -0800

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.

Recipe Puppy, a new Recipe Search Engine

yuletide — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:17:14 -0800

Recipe Puppy, a new Recipe Search Engine [via mefi projects] A recipe search engine that lets you search for recipes by ingredients. Simply put in the ingredients you have and the type of food you want, and the search engine will return the recipes you are closest to being able to make. You can also specify ingredients you don't have, and ingredients that absolutely must be included in the recipe. "For example, when doing a search for salsa, I can specify that I have cilantro, tomatillos, lime juice, and jalapeños, but I am out of garlic. It returns the recipes that I am closest to making with those ingredients. I then can specify that I must use the tomatillos, because I want a Salsa Verde. Here is this search"

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?

Searchme - Visual Search Engine

xod — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:10:50 -0800

Searchme is a search engine that displays results as images of web pages.

Search engine battle heats up

SharQ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:52:09 -0800

According to ComScore, Google takes 59.8% of search traffic in the US, leaving Yahoo, MSN and smaller players to fight for the scraps. Pretty pie-chart here. Slightly different numbers are available from Compete and Hitwise, but Google still rules the roost.

Got room on that Zimmer for two?

Duug — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:45:14 -0800

Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo! The grand old man of Redmond has finally come out of the closet to woo the loveliest lady in Sunnyvale, offering a staggering $44.6 billion in cash or shares. Cash or shares? Wow! Bearing in mind the...ah...disappointments both companies have suffered over the recent past, is this a marriage made in heaven? Or hell?

Google for Google's Sake

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

If Google was designed for Google.

DMOZ Payola?

FlamingBore — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:23:57 -0800

DMOZ Editor(s) seeking extortion for continued inclusion is putting further smudge on the "volunteer" directory. Seems lots of folks have had their hands out over inclusion in the DMOZ, so why hasn't a business been built out of it? Is Best of the Web positioning itself as Google Bait?

Lean back Internet TV

taumeson — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:52 -0800

Chime.TV -- it's a new video hyper-aggregator (like VodPod) by MeFite chime that I've been using since it was in development. It's Wii-compatible and tested and can turn your fave sites into channels (including but not limited to MeFi,Boing Boing, Digg, or Fark). You can automatically watch any YouTube channel as well, or just watch your favorites. I'm personally going to suggest you try out the Net100 channel, which is an aggregate of everbody's top 10 videos. Flash player required

"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.)

Search this!

Brian B. — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:44:59 -0800

Wikiasari search engine. Wikipedia founder plans to offer a new search engine using "the same network of followers" for the process. “Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,” Mr Wales said. “Computers are notoriously bad at making such judgments, so algorithmic search has to go about it in a roundabout way. But we have a really great method for doing that ourselves,” he added. “We just look at the page. It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that.”

Google takes on Paypal

p3t3 — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:29:32 -0800

Google Checkout is officially unveiled today; the latest service to join the Google arsenal in their race to control the entire www. It has been suggested in the news that the Google payment service was also a big factor in the recent Yahoo and eBay partnership, since eBay's Paypal service might finally have some real competition. More info on the service here.

Google Images Censored in China

FeldBum — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:11:06 -0800

Google Images Censored in China A picture says 1000 words, and Google.cn is censoring them all. Check out the side-by-side screens of a search for "tiananmen+square" in Google.com and Google.cn images. Looks like a nice place, with little historical significance. You can try the search yourself. The text on the bottom left is the censorship disclaimer. Very different than our results. A far cry from Google's claim that they do not censor results. Nice to know that they stand up to the government here but not abroad.

A good spoof of the whole thing.

Google Music Search

sarajflemming — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:45:36 -0800

Google music search... It had to happen sooner or later, right? Drop in a phrase, you get artist, album, and song title matches to choose from. Choose an artist, you get a list of their albums and on the album page you get a tracklisting and links to buy the album online, as well as links to do other artist/album/song-related Google searches.

Quick way to find audio / video files

dobbs — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:10:58 -0800

Singing Fish - The search engine for audio and video.

Yahoo Search for Creative Commons Content

o2b — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:00:59 -0800

Yahoo Releases a beta tool that searches for Creative Commons content. It even allows you to specify the type of license you're interested in (derivitive works, commercial use). Lawrence Lessig obviously has something to say about it. If nothing else, it will increase awareness of the cause.

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?

Cuban vs. Google: It's On!

Ufez Jones — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:09:52 -0800

Mark Cuban, who obviously just has too much time on his hands, is teaming up with Icerocket in an attempt to thwart Google for search engine dominance.