SEARCH ENGINES WEEK 7:

You Can Never Have Enough MultiThreaded Search Engines, Mama Always Used to Say
And Now, the News..

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Reynilda Cortez
Lori Morita

We're baaaaaaack! You know, we can hear you crying out there. Cut it out. Yes, Team Search Engine and faithful Office Manager Harvey are here, back by assignment (you really didn't think we believed we were in popular demand, didja?) from our Fearless Leader, Dr. James. The man knows no mercy.

This week, we found a fun place to shop, namely,

Interlinks: The All-in-One Resource Page.

Interesting site, friends and all others. It is very easy to use; the arrangement is linear and logical: there is very little overlap between the clickable topics. We liked the way it looked, as well as the thought that went into the design. In fact, the author asks for feedback, and provides a handy form. This is the best we've seen so far. We told Mr. All-In-One (don't you wish every guy was Mr. All-In-One?) we would be providing a link to his site, and it's worth checking out. This is an extravaganza. From this engine, we found All-The-Rest that follow. In fact, All-The-Rest isn't even really all the rest. These are just the ones we liked, and thought would help out certain members of our captive studio audience (this means all you psychology 409 students, as well as our Fearless Leader). For others you might find interesting, it's got all the tools there. Show how much Sapien is in your Homo Sapien; show your proficiency at using tools. You won't be disappointed. Yeah, we know we've said this in the past, but this one is the most recent, and this one is the best so far.

The Wonderful World of the Web; ain't it a mind-blower.


Some of the things the All-In-One Resource Page (note: THIS IS NOT THE All in One Search Page; we wouldn't do that to you. Well, maybe we might, but not this time) contains are Episode 5 of Team Search Engine?) and Find-It.

So, being us and being nosy, we engaged


Although it was user-friendly, we didn't much care for the background, and the arrangement could have been better. (Harvey says we're getting spoiled.) The collection of search engines at the end contained some of the best (Yahoo, Lycos, etc.) and a few that we hadn't checked out before. This is the first time Team Search Engine found a search engine for newsgroups. Goes by the name of DejaNews. Yeah, we get the reference. After all the other search engines, it looked pretty plain, but it does the job. If you're interested, this will keep you hummin'. It goes all over the world, and if you want to go there, you can go with our blessing. Call us when you come out of the lab.

We'll be back after this commercial break. Look down. See?

Some members of our studio audience will receive:
The Middle East: Newspaper Services on the Internet. This week, this prize is just for you, Nitsa!

Some audience members will also receive:Germany: Newspaper Services on the Internet. And now, Puja, COME ON DOWN!

And for our European audience (What European audience? Shut up, Harvey.), we have the European Internet News Collection!

We now return you to our show in progress.

So we wandered into the wide world of the MultiThreaded Engines, and saw what we could see. Guess what?

Metacrawler

is not the only search engine that searches multiple engines for your queries! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have found the Trinity of MultiThreaded Engines (for now, anyway).

One we really liked was


which is definitely one smart engine. Truly, this is the Engine that could. We liked it because you can "fine tune" your queries with the Expert Options checklist right below the query entry slot. It searches these engines at present: Lycos, Web Crawler, NIKOS, Archie, Infoseek, Webster, Roget's Thesaurus, Harvest, EINet Galaxy, Yahoo, DejaNews, Internet Movie Database: People, and Internet Movie Database: Titles. And look for more, folks. We have a hunch these guys aren't done yet.

As you guessed, we're not connected to the head Mr. SavvySearch, but we do have a hint that they're rolling right along: SavvySearch's experimental section, where they use 18 databases, among them the new and funky


This upstart claims to be the "Internet Trailblazer Search", and we like it because it has a function that allows the query to "Use fuzzy logic (finds plurals, different tenses, etc.)". So if you like your queries warm and toasty and fuzzy like that baby bear at FAO, this is neat. It also uses Guide Words, at your option. This is an interesting engine. (Plus, we thought it had a cool background. We're shoppers.)

Another new search engine SavvySearch uses is the


This is another search engine of note, simply because it transfers requested information to your own personal page. This is like the Infoseek personal newsline, but this is better because there's no fussing around to get to it. It coallates your hits each day. Any new piece of information that comes out on the Web relating to a topic of your specification (you can choose as many topics as you like, and can specify those nagging little sneak-in-by-accident topics you want to avoid, so there are no surprises and NO WASTE OF TIME) shows on your personal page. It's all free, provided by the Stanford Digital Library Project. Nice guys, eh? All the hits produced by these guys are clickable, and you get to specify how many hits you're willing to handle per day. For those of you who need the latest on exactly what you want right NOWNOWNOW, this is for you. We liked it because it will keep us up to date on the latest search engines to hit the streets of the Web. And there's a password, so no one has access to what you decide you want to search for (especially those repressed college dorm guys looking for the Penthouse pages).

Finally, the last of the Triumverate:


This engine means a registration. But before you leave this link lonely, check this out: it's because this thing is going to cost you some big bucks come the end of the year. So use it now, guys; it's from your friend and mine, IBM, those money-grubbing so-and-so stock hogs. What's so great about this thing (besides the really neat icons? giggle giggle . Shhhh, Harvey. What have you been drinking?) you ask? Well, according to the Temple of IBM, this thing is going to use:

The McKinley Internet Directory (this database is growing at the rate of 20% monthly, and they've got over 15,000 entries so far),

the Open Text Web Index (these guys have "indexed the full text, every word, of over one million World Wide Web pages, Gopher servers and FTP sites", and is the "only one to index every word of every page it finds...with over 15 million hyperlinks."),

, which provides nonbinary newsgroups and has more than 13,000 newsgroups. They've got them arranged in a hierarchical system, including alternative items, bitnet discussion groups, business discussion groups, computer related discussion groups, social issues, debate groups, and the list goes onnnnnnn.

IBM is using one of the well-known catalogs, .

And more data sources will be coming soon. Check this out before it's gone. We here at Search Engine Central have a very limited budget (according to our booze-shmoozing manager, Harvey), and we use anything free on the Net. This looks good, but we're probably going to have to give it up come the end of this year. This engine is going to use it all.

Now it's time to check out our live cam...please keep your hands and feet in the chair at all times.

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