Monday, December 31, 2007
Go Go Search Salad!
Metasearch engines come about on occasion and mostly go by without but a shrug and a "Meh." Recently, however, I've been witness to a mild buzz surrounding just such an engine called Search Salad. This UK based compilation engine puts together the results from the "top 5 search engines" as well as pulling from comparison and information sites like Kelkoo and Ciao! (UK shopping), ebay, and c|net.
A brief search for "human animal hybrid" pulls up a page with 5 framed SERPs (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, Ask, and Wikipedia) sandwiched between left and right Google Ads. Clicking the "Electronics" link below the search box at this point brings up Engadget results, although the logo was cut off and it took me a minute to reflect on what the heck enoadoet was. Other links, other results.
Overall, I like that it pulls from more than just the top three engines; depending on what you're searching for, a direct ebay or engadget result may be just what you're looking for. Unfortunately, having a heavy background in design makes my tummy make funny noises whenever I see frame-y looking structures on a page. I've got one of them new-fangled scroll wheels and it would've aesthetically looked so much better to just transpose the top 10 results directly onto the page.
So aside from the whispered chuckles about not just the implication of a "tossed salad," but an actual TOSS button, Search Salad is worth a look if just to take a breath and experience something a little different than your usual branding of results.
A brief search for "human animal hybrid" pulls up a page with 5 framed SERPs (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, Ask, and Wikipedia) sandwiched between left and right Google Ads. Clicking the "Electronics" link below the search box at this point brings up Engadget results, although the logo was cut off and it took me a minute to reflect on what the heck enoadoet was. Other links, other results.
Overall, I like that it pulls from more than just the top three engines; depending on what you're searching for, a direct ebay or engadget result may be just what you're looking for. Unfortunately, having a heavy background in design makes my tummy make funny noises whenever I see frame-y looking structures on a page. I've got one of them new-fangled scroll wheels and it would've aesthetically looked so much better to just transpose the top 10 results directly onto the page.
So aside from the whispered chuckles about not just the implication of a "tossed salad," but an actual TOSS button, Search Salad is worth a look if just to take a breath and experience something a little different than your usual branding of results.
Labels: big 5, search engines
posted by Symetri at 12/31/2007 10:29:00 AM 
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