We are committed to keeping sites that promote hatred out of our database of search engines.

We need your help to do this.

Some sites allow public posting or perhaps a better way of putting it, would be that some sites hide behind the fact that they use public posting on their sites to allow "hate" content on their sites.

Because of public posting a sites content can change quite quickly with time and thus may conceivably slip through the net and be added to our database.

It is also possible that we missed the presence of "hate" content in our examination of a site.

If you think we have allowed this to happen, then contact support@marsjupiter.com and we will check into the site and delete it from our search engine database. When this happens the Foboz automatic update system will ensure the site is deleted for all Foboz users.

One of the wonders the the Web is that especially in these days of "blogs" just about anyone can publish their views on just about anything. The downside of this freedom is that researching subjects and trying to find quality information can be frustrating.

Search engines on the web do try and deal with this themselves, trying to rank sites on quaility, but this then has the downside that they are applying their own criteria of commercial and there have been many accusations of political criteria in whether they index sites or show them in a high ranked spot.

Sometimes this is something you object to, sometimes though when searching for a simple fact you really don't want 100's of dubious results you simply want one answer from one reputable site.

Foboz gives you a lot of flexibility, you can decide how many search engines you want searched and how many results you want from each engine, you can also select specific categories of search.

For example if you want to learn how to mix the perfect Vodka Martini then why search the whole web? when you can search several dedicated cocktail sites in our "drinks" category. Quality over quantity has to be the better bet.

If you are looking for "news" and "current events" Foboz can use 18 (at the time of writing) general search engines to give you the maximum coverage of the whole web. But that coverage is also in practical terms vastly extended by the fact that Foboz has 50+ (and growing) dedicated news and current events sites from a wide variety of viewpoints in its search engine database.

These are all sites selected for offering an impressive amount of coverage and in many cases you are unlikely ever to see results from these sites rank highly in conventional search engines, not least because "news" is happening now! and general web search engines lag behind events. 

What is also important is that when searching with a normal search engine, someone else is editing the priorities of what you see, with Foboz if you don't like the viewpoint of one of our selected "news" and "current events" sites, you can drag it down the engine list so that other engines take its place. You are the one in control.

The Foboz - Meta Search Engine 1.00 release has finally arrived.

This release contains many improvements:

• Cosmetic improvements to the interface, to make selecting and modifying old searches easier.
• Much improved ranking of search results. Good ranking is at the heart of getting the results you want to see at the top of the list and we are very pleased with the new system.
• "Spam" result detection used to downgrade "contrived" search results.
• Quicker download of new search engine definitions.
• Improved "shopping" site detection.
• Improvements to the intelligent selection of search engines.

With well over 300 search engines available to this release, a number that is growing daily. We believe Foboz is the most effective way to search the web.

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It is a good rule of software development to try and avoid so called feature creep, whereaby a release keeps getting delayed due to the addition of extra features.

The Foboz - Meta Search Engine 1.00 release is suffering a little from this syndrome, but we believe that it will bring the benefit of better results.

The latest change is to deal with "spam" results, from certain engines like Kanoogle, these results simply echo back your search terms several times and try to refer you to other search engines or irrelevant web sites. They tend to show up well in searches as the summary contains several mentions of your exact search terms.

We now have a blacklist of the terms and web sites used for these "spam" results and when results are ordered in "Combined" or "keyword" order, such results are severely downgraded.

The blacklisting uses a simple keyword system found in the file categorieskeywords.txt along with the keywords used to detect "shopping" results.

We are now in the process of regressing the new release candidate against the search engine database of over 300 engines and hope that the 1.00 release can be made in the next week.

The Foboz - Meta Search Engine now has over 300 search engines, covering over 30 different search categories.

Combined with the way Foboz intelligently selects which search engines to use, Foboz is we believe the most powerful way to search the web for the results you really want.

The search engines incorparated into Foboz are carefully selected to give you the best possible results.