new meta search?

new referral from this engine.... real fast.

[ihelpyou]

Today I noticed this meta in my referrals for the first time. Went to check it out and found it to be extremely fast. It also queries Google.

[toolkit.imsa.edu...]

Anyone else know anything? It is college students that got together. I am impressed.

It also gives you options on how to display the results page.

[circuitjump]

Very Cool.

[miles]

ihelpyou

is this a find url

[jeremy goodrich]

Sorry, but I'm unimpressed. There are scripts available for free which you can use to put together your own meta search.

Add to that a reasonable way of assigning points to each engine, as far as their importance, and you have a "unique" form of "relevance".

I don't think that there are any engines worth using, aside from Fast and Google. If fast had the accuracy of google, combined with it's unmatched speed of submit to index, they would be so far beyond everybody else, it wouldn't be worth contemplating. As it is, they still have the edge in corresponding with their user base openly.

Just curious, but what value do you see in slapping together a new meta search? What value does it add to the surfing experience?

I'm not playing devil's advocate here, I just don't see it. Unless they are starting their own engine, writing their own spiders, and taking a fresh perspective on the vastness of the open 3 dimensional data set that is the world wide web, I'm not interested in using it.

[ihelpyou]

I don't know, I just found it and thought it to be kind of different than others I have seen. Results seem to be very relevant with different options on how to display them. The "advanced search" is different from what I have seen also.

I thought I would just let you know. Not saying good or bad about it, just very different.