We all have Googled the Web, Mooted the Web and even Asked Jeeves to search the web, but how many of you have Sootled the Web?
While I was Googling, I found this very interesting search engine, named “SOOTLE”.
I had a look at its homepage, and to honest, I am not that fond of its design, although I kind of fancied the logo.
The results seem fairly new (produced 41 total for Bill Gates), but its very interesting how its got this “View these results without Site Clustering” sign at the top, when clicked, I think it removed the clustering and offered me 267 total results for the same query.
I tried adding a couple of URLs, nothing special with that service, just the normal “we don’t guarantee” one.
Had a look at its bot page, its very interesting and un-usual how they’ve explain their Sootlebot infrastructure. I was very happy to see tree diagrams and accurate
explanations of how their bot spiders the web.
Its very nice to see people having courage in trying out new engines, even though they know that its almost impossible for them to beat Google. I’m keeping an eye on this one, it has a
slight chance of vast improvement.
Comments
4 responses so far ↓
FR on May 11, 2004 at 7:20 am
The sootle bot is seemed as phpdig like.
MSN hacken on Jan 17, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Yes, I have studied that shit and it seemed it is a copy of PHPdig. Its claiming something which is in ordering .
Devin T. on Feb 8, 2008 at 11:21 am
A Social News Website? Weird. Clustering is always appreciated. Because you don’t want the same content multiple times or the same web site appearing multiple times most of the time…and they let you ungroup them too if you do want to.
That’s neat, but I doubt it has the database to support a healthy competition with grandaddys like Yahoo and Google.
It’s like an indy search engine.
Nice finding.
Sincerely,
Devin T.
VestRite Internet Practices
يوتيوب on Oct 31, 2008 at 5:30 am
Yes, I have studied that shit and it seemed it is a copy of PHPdig. Its claiming something which is in ordering .
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