I spotted some 'buzz' on a new 'meta search engine' named
Inquisitor. It surely looks nice I fully agree. However I don't quite understand what the fuss is all about. As a search it's just like
MetaCrawler albeit less comprehensive
*, as an 'application' it's just a nice
Ajax live-search and when it comes to it's looks it uses mostly
Apple (probably copyrighted) graphics and design which Apple might not even like very much. They've shown not to be very amused about others using their graphics in the past. Then there's the 'search elsewhere' section with the little Technorati and other icons that makes you leave the page instead of doing that Ajax style as well, similar to what I did with my
Taggerati plugin. For example, click
this link to see a tag page on Ajax with the little icons that perform ajax searches/lookups.
I guess I have mixed feelings about it. It works well,
Inquisitor looks nice but still...
Comments? Did I miss something? This isn't a 'slagging' posting, I'm merely confused!
*Metacrawler actually searches many engines and aggregates the results while Inquisitor is mainly Google based
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At 26 October '05 - 16:32 George Bezel wrote:
In inquisitor ajax, the search results are not provided by Google, they are powered by MSN Search.
Want proof? Check out http://www.inquisitorx.com/a.xml?q=Inqui.. and see what you see. This seems to also be against Microsoft’s policies on their experimental RSS feeds, as they state “please don’t recreate our search engine with them” on their weblog (http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/11/351064.aspx — of course, this last part doesn’t bother me much).
Yet more examples of Dave’s flagrant lies and deceit. He states this information absolutely NOWHERE on his site, nor does he state that he uses Google suggest to power the other results. This is likely against Google’s notoriously strict API license as well.
At 27 October '05 - 18:47 Max wrote:
lifted froma tribute to Apple, it’s nifty. I don’t care if it uses other SEs under the hood (in fact, it’d be madness to try and launch a SE out of thin air).It reminds me of Spotlight, which, even if I don’t use it 235253325 times a day, still is pretty nifty.
At 27 October '05 - 23:47 weefselkweekje wrote:
But all in all, how useful is this? I tried a few searches and got irrelevant results until my search string was complete. Ajax is great for speeding things up, but I don’t see the point in this…