Fun With Entire Web Search Engine
What? You have never heard of Entire Web search engine? It has more traffic than Google and Yahoo put together and looks better than Ask and the new Live Search (two of the better looking search interfaces). Basically, it is the biggest and best search engine on the planet!
Okay, delusions aside, Entire Web is a nice little search engine that has been around for coming up on 9 years. As a comparison, Google has only been around a little over 10 years. While Entire Web has never, and probably never will become as popular as Google you do not need to be the biggest or the best to have a good search engine and make a living.
So, enough kidding and history what I wanted to share was some innovations that I recently noticed at Entire Web that I thought I might share with you. The first is their new 'skinning' technology. I really love the images that are available in their gallery, but would also love to add my own (are you listening Entire Web?). This is very similar to Ask's skinning option which is one of my favorite new features becoming popular within the search engine world. Even though Ask's 'skinning' technology is far superior (and less annoying) then Entire Web's I am seeing the trend to more personalized search as not personalized in the results, but more personalized within the experience (take note Google and Yahoo). I think that is where the new MSN Live search or KUMO as it may be called is also heading.
In addition to the new 'skinning' technology I also found some fun and somewhat useful tools and resources within the 'Services' section of the site which are listed below with their associated descriptions direct from the site:
- SpeedySpy - Want to see what the world is searching for? Try our SpeedySpy! Results are shown in real time on each refresh of your browser.
- Polls - All the polls that have appeared in the Entireweb Newsletter. Check out the opinions of your fellow webmasters!
- Entireweb Newsletter - Our world-class newsletter about search engine optimization and website promotion!
Last, but not least, if your site is not listed within their database you can submit to it for free here:
Free Submission - Use this option to add your site to Entireweb's queue of sites to index. Waiting time before indexing is at least 8-12 weeks.
To check out the search engine click here - Entire Web Search Engine
I wish Entire Web the best of luck in the future and look forward to some of the new innovations they may bring to the table.
April 18, 2010 at 5:21 AM
One thing worth noting is since this post they have relaunched a completely new version which they hope will compete with the big boys. I'm note sure how well it will go, but it does look to have some unique features and a lot more potential than other recent so-called challengers such as cuil which is a dud really. One nice thing is it's thumbnails with every site. Search results seem pretty good - EXCEPT if you are looking for region/country specific stuff which it's a bit of a fail at. And speed isn't that good. But it seems a lot better than it used to be at least!
May 17, 2010 at 6:00 AM
Yes, they've just launched Entireweb 3.0, but who uses Entireweb results? They say "fast growing search engine network consists of hundreds of search engines around the world", but I don't recall seeing them mentioned on any sites I've visited.
They offer Express Inclusion, so that your listing is added within 48 hours; is there any benefit to being listed within their search engine, OTHER than being found on their network?
I get their newsletter, so maybe there's some benefit to advertising there, but I'm not sure who their market is, so how do you know who will see your ad/site?
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