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Daily Blat for Tuesday 24th February - software searches |
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The Foboz - Meta Search Engine now has 350 search engines. Today's increase being down to us filling out the software search category to contain 10 popular shareware site search engines. This makes Foboz the best way to search for software that we have seen.
It has to be said though, that is has taken us rather longer to make the leap from 300, to 350 search engines, than it did from 200 to 300! Part of this is simply a matter of priorities, we think that Foboz already has the best selection of search engines and adding more is not quite as important as when we started out. But it is also getting increasingly hard to find engines that meet the search engine selection criteria.
We don't believe for a moment that the sites we want are not out there, but that the backwaters of the web are not easy to navigate. Ultimately we think that Foboz will be a good weapon in the fight against this growing trend that we see on the web that leaves many sites invisible, but meanwhile we are also trapped by the tendency of the major search engines to miss out good resources in favour of a flood of the banal.
Consider the statsistic that 85% of web traffic is driven by search engines and people using search engines do not look beyond a page or two of results. Now consider a web search on current events! In the case of a major search engine, how many different sites would be returned? In the Foboz Meta Search Engine we have 56 news and current events search engines. This means our results from Foboz would be infinitely richer in variety.
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