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Subject:    [WEB4LIB] Re: New search engine
From:       pfa () umich ! edu (pfa () umich ! edu)
Date:       2005-01-28 12:01:06
Message-ID: CHILKAT-MID-a1290ea6-b989-40b6-8df5-cb387b6ac551 () sprince01
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Roy Tennant wrote:

> Have people seen <http://beta.exalead.com/>? What do you think of it? I
> like the thumbnail screenshots, but that isn't the only feature it has.
> Roy

Roy, what other features were you thinking of? I didn't see anything in
advanced search that Google or Yahoo don't do. Yes, the thumbnails are
nice, and being able to switch between page-image display and text display
is nice if you are a visual person, but what else?

I found the relevancy ranking is wildly different than Google, so it might
be good to just see different results, although (frankly) I liked Google's
ranking better. I like Yahoo's ranking even better than Google's, but
dislike their interface.

Right now, my favorite search toy is A9.com, although it isn't really new.
I like A9 best when I am in a hurry and unfamiliar with the topic I am
searching -- it gives a real quick jumpstart contextual search, especially
if I use the combination display with web / images / books / reference.

Patricia Anderson, pfa@umich.edu

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