Cool new search engine

Wow, check out this search engine: Exalead. Gary Price sent that one over to me. It’s not perfect, but the UI shows that a lot more can be done than the big three have done with search.

For instance, I did a search for HDTV. Now look along the left side. You get related terms, related categories, can view Web sites by location, and get a good look at document types being served up. Neat icons of each result, too.

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Robert Scoble

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Comments

  1. I blocked the Exalead spider from my site over a year ago, since it was not respecting my robots.txt. Now that I have seen this, I might give Exalead another chance…

  2. I blocked the Exalead spider from my site over a year ago, since it was not respecting my robots.txt. Now that I have seen this, I might give Exalead another chance…

  3. It’s awsome!

    See what a difference a little UI design can make? This isn’t even revolutionary - half of the decisions they made were no-brainers, but it feels so much better than a single list. Suddenly meaningful information “appears” to be within your grasp, which is generally not the case with MSN, Yahoo or Google.

    The search page is still pretty static, however. I’d start thinking of ways to the user move that data around, organize it, and even take it off the page and onto the desktop.

    Search-based metadata containers…

  4. It’s awsome!

    See what a difference a little UI design can make? This isn’t even revolutionary - half of the decisions they made were no-brainers, but it feels so much better than a single list. Suddenly meaningful information “appears” to be within your grasp, which is generally not the case with MSN, Yahoo or Google.

    The search page is still pretty static, however. I’d start thinking of ways to the user move that data around, organize it, and even take it off the page and onto the desktop.

    Search-based metadata containers…

  5. something seems to be a problem your links do not show on start.com for some reason. you should use it sometime help them get their act together

  6. something seems to be a problem your links do not show on start.com for some reason. you should use it sometime help them get their act together

  7. Wow Scoble thanks for this new search engine, I love the speed and variety of ways I can tweak my search results to different file types immediatly.

    This makes previewseek look like garbadge.

  8. Wow Scoble thanks for this new search engine, I love the speed and variety of ways I can tweak my search results to different file types immediatly.

    This makes previewseek look like garbadge.

  9. oooo…Robert you see…quite a few of things I talked about in my email have been implemented albeit in a slightly different way (UI)…I guess a website preview thing will become quite standard pretty soon…

    though I’m still betting on the MSN Search guys to implement smth with a faster response time…

    I was thinking of making a desktop program using the MSN Search API for web searches…hmmm u know what…somehow thick client still seems very very relevant…

    good stuff…

  10. oooo…Robert you see…quite a few of things I talked about in my email have been implemented albeit in a slightly different way (UI)…I guess a website preview thing will become quite standard pretty soon…

    though I’m still betting on the MSN Search guys to implement smth with a faster response time…

    I was thinking of making a desktop program using the MSN Search API for web searches…hmmm u know what…somehow thick client still seems very very relevant…

    good stuff…

  11. This thing “jitters” (page sometimes resizes up and down in a loop) in my Firefox version and it has no scrollbars for the results!

  12. This thing “jitters” (page sometimes resizes up and down in a loop) in my Firefox version and it has no scrollbars for the results!

  13. Robert, I believe your original comment was that current search tools didn’t make it easy to find the manufacturers. Exalead provides some neat new stuff, but I still don’t see the manufacturers.

  14. Robert, I believe your original comment was that current search tools didn’t make it easy to find the manufacturers. Exalead provides some neat new stuff, but I still don’t see the manufacturers.