This is an example of a metasearcher, in case you are
wondering which one is a good one!
Clusty is
a metasearcher and it gives you results from numerous sources with just one query. This is a great feature!
Clusty started of as a
demo search box on Vivisimo's corporate Web site but it became so popular that by 2004 it superceded the original and very popular Vivisimo search engine.
Clusty incorporates the concept of "clustering" that Vivisimo used. Basically, what this means is that it gives you search results by topic and it focuses on specific categories or related fields of information This helps avoid the
overload problem AND THE HASSLE of going through too many results. It also offers users dedicated search tabs for News,
Images, Shopping, Wikipedia, Blogs, and Jobs.
There is a link to an Advanced
searching page, where you can check boxes that allow you to include
results from Web sites not offered by other metasearchers, such as major news
media sources and government and business sites.
What does all this mean? That it rocks!
SEARCHES IN:
- Ask
(Search Engine)
- GigaBlast
(Search Engine)
- LookSmart
(Directory)
- MSN
(Search Engine)
- Open
Directory (Directory)
- Wisenut
(Search Engine)
SEARCH OPTIONS:
- Supports
those features already supported by the engines used in the search
- Also
supports use of (-) for negation and quotes ("") for phrases
- Offers
option to open links in "full window," "frame," or
"new window"
- Provides
option to set results list at 100, 200 or 500 at a time
- Provides
option to set "time out" time
- Allows
searches by host, language, and file type
- Allows
searches to turn off/on filtering feature for offensive content
OTHER SEARCH OPTIONS AND FEATURES:
- Provides
both results lists and "clustered results" by subject
- Prefaces
results list with news and sponsored results
- Culls
results from a combination of search engines and subject directories
- Translates
search requests into each participating engine's syntax
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