Best of ResourceShelf: Quickly Move from One Search Tool to Another with Intelways (Formerly CrossEngine & MrSapo)
Having the best name possible for your site or service is so important. Let's review this point by reviewing three name changes (in about 3 years) at a useful web research tool?
+ First, in 2004, their was MrSapo, a site that allowed users to quickly move around and search various databases organized by categories. The service was developed and maintained by Juan Sosa. Note that the page is copyright Intelways.
+ Second, in early 2007, MrSapo changed it's name to CrossEngine. This SEL report documents the change.
During this time, the site was constantly under construction with new looks and new search tools being added.
Now, the name has changed again to IntelWays (the name of it's parent company).
Search Tools are Listed in 11 Categories:
+ General (Ask, Google, Exalead, Live, Yahoo, etc.)
+ Images
+ Video (A Few Suggestions for New Entries Here)
+ News
+ Social
+ Files
+ Reference
+ Academic (These posts 1 ||| 2 list a few more that deserve a place)
+ Business
+ Tech
+ Shopping
Btw, also note the box in the upper right hand corner to have results pages open in a new browser window and icons for the most popular engines now remain constant on the interface. Look for the icons directly to the right of the search box.
We've become regularly users of Intelways. It can not only make comparison searching and web search training easier but it also is useful to learn about new specialty tools. Kudos to the Intelways team and keep up the good work.
Update: It's important to remember that Intelways is NOT a meta or federated search engine where results from disparate databases are merged together into one results list. Vivisimo's Bio-Meta Cluster would be an example of meta/federated search tool.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
