7 Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should by Matt McGee, Search Engine Land (Oct 21)
These are 7 new search tools each with a different twist. Some do web - offering selection of several tools, some do images, one does recommendations and one finds tickets. The twists are mainly in interface and display.
+ Fasteagle - multi-tool, all-in-one kind of search - except choices are limited.
+ Kedrix - meta search - Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask - individual tabs. This approach has been used before (many times - Zuula is one). Some love this kind of engine, but it's tough for these guys to stay in business.
+ Soovle - wonder if they meant swivil, or maybe it's so-o-vle? Either way - Soovle expands search terms as you type to show suggestions from 6 centres (Google, Ask, Yahoo, Wikipedia, YouTube, Answers) - and you then choose which suggestion you want to try and where. Interesting idea, not very helpful in practice. Screen is difficult to read (Firefox 3.0), and suggestions are always going to be very elementary, common phrase expansions.
+ Facesaerch - great film-strip type of display of faces matching your search term.
+ CompFight - has features for searching Flickr, whether on text or tag, Creative Commons or original, safe search. Search for Utah rocks - some fantastic photos.
+ Tastekid - recommendation engine - these are always time sinks where you can spend hours telling the engine about your likes and dislikes and sometimes get a good recommendation, but most of the time not.
+ Fansnap - finds tickets - works with ticket providers in the United States
Posted by Gwen at October 25, 2008 04:09 PM