Seach Engine Examples

A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The Information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in newsbooks, databases, or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.

TripleMe.com

TripleMe.com is another tool that allows you to run a search across multiple search engines and display the results in separate columns on one page. It covers Live, Google and Yahoo, and there is a fourth column for Google ads. Phil Bradley mentioned on his blog that before he could his first results he had to email a friend and tell them about it. That particular ‘feature’ seems to have gone. TripleMe’s robust search features also give users spelling suggestions from the three different search engines and can list results for maps, pictures, books and more. Though fresh off the press, this metasearch provider has incorporated many useful search features unavailable with providers like WebCrawler, DogPile or HotBob. It’s convenient, diverse, and really easy to use.

Shopzilla.com

Founded in 1996, Shopzilla is a leading comparison shopping service. The company's mission is to enable shoppers to quickly and easily find compare and buy anything, sold by virtually anyone, anywhere. Each month, Shopzilla connects millions of consumers with thousands of stores. In June 2006, Shopzilla attracted over 18.9 million unique visitors according to ComScore. Site Stats for shopzilla.com: * Shopzilla.com has a traffic rank of: 994 (up273) * Speed: Fast (66% of sites are slower), Avg Load Time: 1.7 Seconds What's This? * Other sites that link to this site: 3,756 * Shopzilla.com was first registered on: 04-Jul-2002. See how it looked in the past.

Alta Vista

AltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier.Although there is some dispute about who was responsible for the original idea, two key participants were Louis Monier, who wrote the crawler, and Michael Burrows, who wrote the indexer. The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at altavista.digital.com.

At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the other search engines. It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) which could cover a lot more Web pages than were believed to exist at the time and an efficient search back-end running on advanced hardware. As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM, 500 GB of hard disk space, and received 13 million queries per day. This made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part of the World Wide Web. The distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its minimalistic interface compared with other search engines of the time; a feature which was lost when it became a portal, but was regained when it refocused its efforts on its search function.
AltaVista's site was an immediate success. Traffic increased steadily from 300,000 hits on the first day to more than 80 million hits a day two years later. The ability to search the web, and AltaVista's service in particular, became the subject of numerous articles and even some books. AltaVista itself became one of the top destinations on the web, and by 1997 would earn US$50 million in sponsorship revenue.