There isn’t much more you can do to re-invent the search engine that others haven’t tried before in the past. What you can do is improve on ideas that are already out there. You have all seen the pages that search multiple search engines at once, and they all pretty much suck. Well, I have finally found one that does it right - and Search!o is its name-o.
The front page is pretty slick, you have the search box, the “go” box (to get your search started) and then you can pick from a number of search engine groups such as: audio/music, blogs, books, css galleries, fonts, images, jobs, news, search engines, social bookmarks, videos and more. Each group will search a different series of web sites. Doing your basic “search engines” search will give you results from Google, Live Search, Ask, AOL, Dogpile, Clusty, Alta Vista, Lycos, and All the Web. Each source has it’s own tab inside of the web site, so navigation is as easy as clicking the tab or the Alt + a number combination.
The address it gives to you is the last feature I want to share with you. Look at this: http://search.io/search-engines/web hosting show/
The address is based on the search group type I used (”search-engines”) and then my phrase I searched for (”web hosting show”). Only thing that lack that I would like to see is an easy way to add them to the search box via the browser. Play with Search!o today, and let me know your thoughts on it.
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