DeeperWeb for Google Combines NeuSearch Cool Factors with Traditional Search Functionality
DeeperWeb's recently released add-on/plugin for IE and Firefox allows users to see traditional Google search results with enhanced results in a sidebar.
The suite of DeeperWeb enhancements to Google results include tag clouds, metrics, Q&As, and results from specific sources such as journalism sites, blogs, and Wikipedia. And unlike other next-gen search engines, DeeperWeb plays nice with Google, allowing users to maintain the familiarity of the Google interface and the reliability of Google results while experimenting with new paradigms.
The company just released its beta search engine extension/plugin, and the possibilities are quite interesting.
The tag clouds in particular are helpful for suggesting new keywords or areas to search, and users can click terms to instantly add or exclude them and get more focused results.
According to DeepCloud's website, businesses and marketers can also use the tags as a simple, fast, and free means of "identifying main competitors, pinpointing targeted sites for most effective advertisement, and isolating the authoritative websites of a particular topic." While larger companies would have far more sophisticated tools at their disposal, this could be a good starting point for small businesses.
Narrowing search results by source and type of media also has great implications for individual productivity. For example, searching for statistical information on peanut butter using Google alone yields strange and limited results and takes quite a bit more time than Googling "peanut butter" and letting DeeperWeb's Metrics tab sort out the empirical data on that most sticky of condiments.
Better yet, co-founder Alex Rinsky said in a phone conversation this afternoon that the next version, slated to be released in 2-3 weeks, will allow users to further narrow news results based on industry (business, tech, general, etc.) and will provide options for searching for video, podcast, slide deck, and other multimedia results.
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on a related note, you should also check out:
WebMynd - decorates the SERP with results from 20 or so news and social services:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6416 or
http://ieaddons.com/en/details/searchhelpers/WebMynd_Search_Assistant/
and...
Surf Canyon - personalizes the SERP to find the most relevant results for you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6549 or
http://ieaddons.com/en/details/searchhelpers/Surf_Canyon/
Disclosure: both of these addons decoration of the SERP with realtime web results from OneRiot, where i work. But even if you don’t elect to turn on our stuff, I’d still highly recommend them ;-)
Very nice interface - I really like it! Good work guys.
Enhancing Google's results page is what we do on Google@Omgili - http://google.omgili.com/
You can find discussions about the Google results, you can search for reviews, forum discussions, blogs, Q&A, videos all with one click.
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I installed this Firefox plugin and now Firefox (on Ubunu) crashes and will not start.
Already have TreeTabs and Delicious sidebar plugins... don't think I can handle anymore. It does look nice though.
Dear Mike (commenter no. 4),
Thanks for your feedback. We did not discover any such issues before (I'm a Ubuntu user myself...) We would like to farther examine this experience with DeeperWeb, and help you troubleshoot the matter. We would appreciate if you could email us (support@deeperweb.com) more information as to the Ubuntu version, Firefox version and names of other addons you presently use. Looking forward to your email and thanks again for your help.
Yaniv Ben-Yosef
DeeperWeb.com
DeeperWeb--customize your Google search and zoom in and out of areas-of-interest such as answers, news, Wikipedia, videos, podcast, slides, articles and experts' advice. A few of the "Zoom-In" categories available for Google sidebar addon are: answers, experts, media, metrics, wikipedia, resources, news, top 10, more zoomies.
Good recommendation, indeed. However, you can also check out http://aafter.com/ ; a high privacy search engine.
Aafter has added a toolbar, recently that ensures quality search along with easy access to search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AAfter along with WikiPedia, Wikitionary and Shopzilla. It is an orphan toolbar with no policing server attached to it.
Regards,
SharonHill
This is an interesting plugin, and a creative distribution channel for niche vertical search engines.
At Cazoodle, we specialize in building specialized vertical search. I see a good synergy between cazoodle.com and deeperweb.com.
Thanks for the pointer.
great tool!! smart, useful and fun to use. gr8 work!
Thanks for pointing this tool, works great !!
Deeper Web sounds really great and very important! Please keep us informed.
Interesting. I find clicking "-eliminate" words more useful than "+add" words. Probably cause I normally don't use these when I first type-in a search string, and the cloud thingy makes it so much easier.