Scores of companies are trying to take on Google's
dominance of search these days. Here are two interesting new search
engines worth checking out.
Sherri Weiss recommends
Accoona.com (the name comes from "Hakuna Matata," which means "Don't Worry, Be Happy" in Swahili).
The
site's news and business search engines are built on artificial
intelligence algorithms, which enable the search
engine to return not just results containing your search
term, but also any stories the artificial intelligence thinks are
associated with the search term.
For instance, when you type
"Oscar winners" into the search box, Accoona delivers stories about
Academy Award winners, whether or not the stories mention the word
Oscar. Once you get the first set of results, you can then further
narrow your search results by when and where stories were published by
clicking on a set of drop-down menus.
Blake Killian asks Web Tips readers to check out his company's new metasearch interface, called
Huckabuck.com.Huckabuck.com
searches Google, Yahoo!, and MSN simultaneously and delivers results
from all three. A neat feature that differentiates this from other
metasearch sites is that you can weight search engine results using the
"Search Tuner button" so that, for example, Google's results are given
more weight than MSN's (but MSN's are still included).
"We're
trying to get to the bottom of social tendencies and individual
preferences as they relate to search," he says. "This is why we think
of ourselves as a search interface rather than an engine. Only
Huckabuck enables you to tune your results based on your search engine
preferences while querying several search engines at once."
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