[WEB4LIB] Re: New search engine

Even Flood evflood at broadpark.no
Wed Jan 26 11:36:40 EST 2005


Michael.Yunkin at ccmail.nevada.edu wrote:

>I don't particularly like the thumbnails; on my screen they appear way too
>far to the right to be useful. Also, as someone else said, the results
>rankings differ quite a bit from Google, and--at least with the terms I
>used--were not nearly as relevant.
>
>On the other hand, I LOVE the "Related Categories"  window. It's a lot like
>Vivisimo, but the interface is cleaner and IMO much more appealing.
>
>-Michael
>  
>
One very important feature, Exalead handles trunkation. No other search 
engine does that. (I still miss AltaVista and NothernLight.
Geting nostalgic, I guess...)

Even

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