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Wednesday, 21st April 2004

Mozdex, Sootle, and FyberSearch

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Search Engine Radar Update
Here are a few new general web search tools to keep an eye on. These projects are NOT ready for prime time but still are worth a spot on your search engine radar. Each of these tools is building its own databases and not repackaging data from other sources. At the moment each index is very small.
+ FyberSearch
This engine allows the user to tweak the keyword density portion of its relevancy algorithm. I haven't seen this option from a general web engine. I like it! You often find this functionality from databases like LexisNexis and Factiva where the searcher can specify how many times a word or phrase must be mentioned in a document to be considered relevant. Often, the syntax atleast(x) is used. An advanced interface and image searching are available. You'll also notice a link (on search results pages) to immediately reindex each page. Finally, options to limit your search to terms in the title, meta tags, and url by simply pointing and clicking. The default search finds your terms in page titles only. You'll need to select "content keywords" to search terms on the page.
+ Mozdex
A beta built by Byron Miller using the Nutch open source search platfom. A bit more info from Search Engine Journal.
+ Sootle
In alpha mode. Being built by a group of people located throughout the world. Comments from Tara and Battelle.

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