Clusty is a search engine, created in '04, by a company called Vivisimo, which was formed by a couple University students looking for a better way to search the web.
It queries several of the top search engines, and instead of just using result-ranking to sort out the results, they also use result-clustering, which puts similar results together, making searches a little easier.
I played around with it a little bit, and I like what I see. I installed the FireFox Browser Thing (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=clusty&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search) for clusty, and I'm going to give it a fair shot to see if it can be better than Google.
This sounds a lot like www.dogpile.com
Quote from: Killer360 on October 08, 2006, 12:42:51 PM
This sounds a lot like www.dogpile.com
The entire point of Clusty is that it categorizes ('clusters') results. Dogpile doesn't. So they aren't alike in any important way.
www.google.com (http://www.searchmash.com)
^That is what impresses me.
Quote from: Nate on October 10, 2006, 11:04:25 AM
www.google.com (http://www.searchmash.com)
^That is what impresses me.
What's good about "searchmash.com"?
Quote from: iago on October 10, 2006, 11:10:03 AM
Quote from: Nate on October 10, 2006, 11:04:25 AM
www.google.com (http://www.searchmash.com)
^That is what impresses me.
What's good about "searchmash.com"?
Its the experimental site for Google.
Quote from: Nate on October 10, 2006, 11:12:49 AM
Its the experimental site for Google.
Ah, cool. I don't like it as much as the real Google, though.. :-/
Where'd you hear about that?
CNET, it was on the RSS feed but it disappeared, I think Google probably wants it to keep it relatively none Google brand name for testing purposes.