We just launched a vertical search site around video games – http://www.gameseekr.com. We built most of it ground up.

While its easy to use existing search engines and build a meta search engine on top of it, this approach does not work in many situations. For example in our case we value sites with a large collection of games more than popular game sites which may have information on just a few games.

We also look for specific information on a game that a search engine may ignore. Publisher or platform information or ratings for a game from a specific site.

Please check us out at http://www.gameseekr.com and let me know what you think.

Sri

We’ve just launched a web search service called
FuzzFind.com (http://www.fuzzfind.com), a mashup that combines the power of the major search engines and social bookmarking sites to make it easier to find and identify the most relevant information.

Results are grouped together and sorted according to the search engine rankings plus the popularity of the sites according to the social bookmarking community.

There’s also a feature to allow you to tune and personalize the search results on-the-fly by simply adjusting the weight for each search source through the use of sliders.

Please check it out, we welcome any feedback so that we can improve the service.

Thanks!

I just looked your site “earthfrisk.org”. It seems good, especially for the first release it seems great.

But, I wonder if you get any special license or any kind of permission to republish their results from “Google”,”Yahoo”, etc.

Thanks in advance,
Firat

My reference to ‘re-inventing the wheel ‘ was with reference to the indexing of data. The point was that start-ups in search had a better chance of proving a point by using the search indexes of the established players while working on the core technology alone.

You have done well here to put some good on the terms I was looking for.

But I disagree on few of the things. [Quote]Why Re-invent the Wheel ?[/Quote]

Common! If I remember things correctly, Yahoo was the dominating force in SE world until Google came. And Google did reinvented for the better use and to be honest we still don’t know as to whether this is the right thing….as desire for betterment is always there.

We never know some xyz or Wikipedia, comeup with something what will change the whole perception of the search world.

I do see some value…but my concern will always be there…Good Company like Google, gets on top in 2 ways…One with determination, plan, and proper direction and the Secondly, they don’t get enough competition….

So if no one challenging Google, then probably in 5-10 years from now we might reach a point where we will be forced by them to see what they want. But yes, they have done good and the future looks good……but we really need some healthy competition here……

So I don’t see getting convinced with all these points…..

Srv.