http://netsearchengine.net announced today the launch of its new search engine. netsearchengine.net is a network of twenty vertical search engines - and users can suggest new sites or vote on how they feel about existing ones. No single user has the ability to directly add or delete a source; rather suggested sites are verified by a majority vote.
When a user preforms a search, the results will only show pages that are included in the collaboratively edited vertical search index. netsearchengine.net hopes that this will make your search results more focused and relevant to your search related needs. Give http://netsearchengine.net a try and let us know what you think.
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Another fine product from the makers of bottom-feeder sites like LiveLocker, YCantI and (best of all) LVPortal - your Las Vegas portal. Was it just a slow news day or how did these guys hoodwink you into posting this c**p?
Posted by: Chris DeVore | May 15, 2007 2:50 PMLVportal - I was learning HTML.
LiveLocker - I bought the site from someone else, worked on for a while, and abandoned.
YCantI - is a joke site.
Maybe you can actually take a look at netsearchengine which we worked very hard on.
Posted by: Michael Zielinski | May 15, 2007 3:09 PMREVIEW: NetSearchEngine: The hip new thing of 2007, combining community with Google search but until you build a community, all you have is Google Custom Search - I'm unconvinced a community will do much for a search engine unless it's a "lifestyle" community where you have a broad base of active and lots of new incoming links - technology, gadgets, the Mac are topics where both are true - most others are like informational - for example, malaria. You think or have it or you are doing a term paper - outside of a couple thousand researchers (who pretty much know more than what they can unearth on Google), who is going to actively maintain an interest? Or a hobby like knitting - yes, lots of active users from beyond a couple dozen sites - maybe, do you really a full blown search engine devoted to it? Interesting concept - I can't imagine it going very far.
Posted by: metroxing | May 15, 2007 3:36 PMThis is my blog posting, and I was more than pleased to let R/WW's readers take a look at netsearchengine and post some constructive comments to encourage a new entrant to the alt. community. But rudeness and cheap shots I did not expect.
Posted by: Charles Knight | May 15, 2007 4:56 PMLooks like all they did was use google custom search to create verticals. Sorry but couldn't anyone do this?
Posted by: ryan | May 15, 2007 5:24 PMCheap shots galour!
Posted by: Charlotte Gibbs | May 16, 2007 3:51 AMIm tring this out now, and only then will I make my cheap shots if it doesn't work. I'm interested to find out more, and im waiting for approval of a site I have suggested for one of the verticals indexs.
Cheap shots galour!
Posted by: Charlie | May 16, 2007 3:51 AMIm tring this out now, and only then will I make my cheap shots if it doesn't work. I'm interested to find out more, and im waiting for approval of a site I have suggested for one of the verticals indexs.
I think its a pretty good idea. If they can get their users to build a strong source index, this could work. SEO marketing has gotten so good as of late that narrowing down the sources to only the good sites would be welcomed by me. Broad search results are getting a bit worse than they used to be.
Posted by: Ashkat | May 16, 2007 11:23 AMThis is just a set of google custom searches?
Posted by: David | May 17, 2007 12:14 PMUnimaginative verticals like these don't help the concept of verticals spread. Admitely I'm not an objective critic... but just compare results on technologysearchengine.net and duzzio.com. We haven't made any efforts to spread the word about our vertical until we add some additional features we are working on. In the meantime we keep it adding new companies and sources for the few users who like to use duzzio for their own research.
Posted by: daniel | May 17, 2007 3:30 PMCharles rightly pointed out that my previous comment was not really constructive. I'm sorry, that wasn't nice... so here goes another one.
My initial impression, looking at the home page with links to 20 different verticals, was that it is cluttered and made me think that netsearchengine is trying to cover too many topics. My first suggestion would be to include a search box on the home page with a drop down next to it where all those topics could be selected.
Then I checked technologysearchengine.net. I know that a collaborative search engine sounds good in theory, but my personal belief... i guess I'm not very democratic.. is that the only way that would work is when there is a certain commonality of interests among the participants... members of a club, a trade, etc. Looking at the results I felt like there are not focused enough and that makes them feel shallow in my opinion. Maybe you want to consider trying to involve groups with a definite focus rather than let anyone add sources.
Last, I would try to improve on the speed of delivery of the registration email. When I decide to register I want almost immediate access. If I have to wait I may not come back. I know how much effort it takes to put one of these together. I hope this helps. I'll keep checking on it to see how it progresses and I'm also including it in the Duzzio list of companies. Good luck!
Posted by: daniel | May 17, 2007 10:49 PMgreat post
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