Fans of the Fast Show will remember Monkfish : well here's LeapFish, a search aggregator which gives you instant search results all on your search screen. The promo video on YouTube is called "LeapFish is the fastest search on the Planet".
Thanks to Judy O'Connell for drawing this to my attention.
Showing posts with label search engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engines. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Search Cube search engine
Judy O'Connell drew this new search engine to my attention.
Search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images at once.
I agree it's quite fun, and can be used to draw attention to different facets of a topic visually.
Search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images at once.
I agree it's quite fun, and can be used to draw attention to different facets of a topic visually.
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Web Search Strategies in Plain English
This latest video from Common Craft "Web Search Strategies in Plain English" is just great! Librarians may even think it will do them out of a job!! It gives tips on ways to conduct effective search engine queries including phrase searching, keyword searching, and implied Boolean operators. I shall certainly use it. Maybe won't work so well if you don't like fish..watch it and see what I mean!
Is Hakia the answer?
The search engine Hakia has been around a few years but only now has it become developed enough for serious consideration. It claims to be the Semantic search engine dedicated to quality.
"Today's search engines bring popular results via statistical ranking methods. Popular results are not always quality results, and the searchers suffer in many ways ranging from wasted search time to using misleading information."
Results on Hakia are based on sentence analysis rather than keywords (e.g. Google). You can enter a question, phrase or keywords.
On Sept.22, 2008 – Hakia put out "an open call to librarians and information professionals to participate in a new program to unlock credible and free Web resources to Web searchers.
Librarians and information professionals can suggest URLs leading to the most credible Websites on a given topic. Hakia will process the sites with its proprietary QDEX (Query Detection and Extraction) technology and make them available to Web searchers in credibility-stamped search results. Each month hakia will give away thank-you prizes, ranging from a book donation to two conference grants, to participants. "
Haven't had time to try it out much, but initial impression is that it's an interesting alternative to Google, especially as accoona has just folded. Could it be used with students on topics getting them to search Google and hakia and comparing their results? Maybe I'll try that.
"Today's search engines bring popular results via statistical ranking methods. Popular results are not always quality results, and the searchers suffer in many ways ranging from wasted search time to using misleading information."
Results on Hakia are based on sentence analysis rather than keywords (e.g. Google). You can enter a question, phrase or keywords.
On Sept.22, 2008 – Hakia put out "an open call to librarians and information professionals to participate in a new program to unlock credible and free Web resources to Web searchers.
Librarians and information professionals can suggest URLs leading to the most credible Websites on a given topic. Hakia will process the sites with its proprietary QDEX (Query Detection and Extraction) technology and make them available to Web searchers in credibility-stamped search results. Each month hakia will give away thank-you prizes, ranging from a book donation to two conference grants, to participants. "
Haven't had time to try it out much, but initial impression is that it's an interesting alternative to Google, especially as accoona has just folded. Could it be used with students on topics getting them to search Google and hakia and comparing their results? Maybe I'll try that.
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Not just Google
Here are some other search engines which I have come across in recent days :
Sputtr - gather all your favourite serach engines on one page. Easy to customise and simple design.
Search Crystal - lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place.It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, flickr images or RSS feeds.
You can embed searchCrystal as a widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals, or use it to find out what is popular on Wikipedia or use the search analytics toolbox in your browser as a powerful competitive intelligence tool. A searchCrystal application is also available in Facebook.
Intelways - used to be called CrossEngine and is a one-stop online search service, a convenient and fast way to search for (almost) anything on the web, through its comprehensive set of search channels organized into different categories.
Sputtr - gather all your favourite serach engines on one page. Easy to customise and simple design.
Search Crystal - lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place.It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, flickr images or RSS feeds.
You can embed searchCrystal as a widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals, or use it to find out what is popular on Wikipedia or use the search analytics toolbox in your browser as a powerful competitive intelligence tool. A searchCrystal application is also available in Facebook.
Intelways - used to be called CrossEngine and is a one-stop online search service, a convenient and fast way to search for (almost) anything on the web, through its comprehensive set of search channels organized into different categories.
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