[thelist] ixquick

[rudy limeback]

apologies if my last post came across as too political

sorry tim, nothing personal, i was just trying to clear up the world's
common (mis)perception of canada

(whew)

this is supposed to be a web developer list, eh?

<tip type="great new meta search engine">

http://ixquick.com searches 14 (fourteen!!) engines simultaneously, and
presents results in "top ten" sequence

for example, search on "evolt" yields this as the top result:

   evolt.org - Workers of the Web, evolt! * * * * * * *

   A world community for web developers, promotes the
   mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences.
   http://evolt.org/
   Hotbot (1), MSN (1), AOL (1), LookSmart (1),
   Fast Search (1), Infoseek (1), Excite (2)

the seven stars (asterisks in the text above) indicate that the result is
within the top ten of seven of the search engines

the numbers in brackets indicate which position in each engine

performance is pretty incredible, but i guess that's because it's probably
telling the engines it's calling to eturn only the top ten

not to be too much of a promoter (i'm not associated with them in any way),
but here's info from their "about" page --

Top ten reasons Ixquick is the most useful metasearch engine around
(all but one of these reasons are true...)

10. Ixquick's stellar web metasearch was created by a twelve year old
Himalayan mountain goat named Daphne.

9. Ixquick searches many prominent engines simultaneously (in parallel).

8. Ixquick translates your search into each search engine's syntax.

7. You can perform natural language or complex boolean searches with
Ixquick. Ixquick supports phrases, wildcards, omitted terms, must-have
terms, parentheses, and other modifiers such as NEAR, because Ixquick knows
which search engines can cope with which complex searches.

6. Ixquick eliminates duplicates.

6. Ixquick eliminates duplicates.

5. Ixquick awards one star for each search engine that placed a site in its
top ten. Since different search engines value different content, a site
that appears in multiple top ten lists is likely to be very pertinent!

4. Ixquick prioritizes sites that appear earlier in the top ten
rankings--and tells you the rankings.

3. Ixquick upholds the democratic ideal of one search engine, one vote,
even when a search engine mentions the same site often in its top ten.

2. Ixquick lets you jump directly to the search engines when an engine's
results seem particularly valuable to you.

1. You can put a stellar Ixquick search box on your own website, for free!


</tip>


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