May 29, 2008
AllPlus - impressive new metaseach engine
WebLib Launches Universal Meta-Search and Discovery Engine Newsbreaks (May 30)
AllPlus - new metasearch engine with "universal" search qualities. Has adopted the three-pane design used by Ask to show clusters on the left (tree and graph), web results in the center, and selections from news, images, video and blog on the right. The cluster tree shows topics - fairly descriptive rather than the one-word form used at several metasearchers. The graph is done through Java - will be slower to load but is worth the wait in order to fine tune the search.
"AllPlus, the web’s first universal metasearch and clustering engine has been released by WebLib (www.weblib.com). AllPlus simultaneously searches the major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com) for webpages, news, videos, images, and blogs, and it presents all the results in an intuitive and clearly organized way through its Web 2.0 interface."
Web 2.0 interface is effective. Tool does show source search engine for result (MSN, Google etc). It doesn't provide any controls on choice of engine, number of results, or an "advanced" search form. But that's fine - it's still impressive. Allplus is a keeper.
Posted by Gwen at May 29, 2008 02:20 PM