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Are You Tired of the Same Old Search Engine?

Chris — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:06:42 +0000

Are You Tired of the Same Old Search Engine? is a post from Chris Pirillo

Daniel is a community member, who also happens to work for MSE360. He sent me the following email:

MSE360 uses several API systems and a custom crawler called Fred to provide a unique search experience. Unlike nearly all other search engines currently on the market, MSE360 combines Web, Wikipedia, Blogs and Images into one easy-on-the eyes design. This in turn results in MSE360 being able to provide users with a much quicker way of getting the best information from the Internet.
MSE360 contains an Anti-Spyware feature powered by StopBadWare. When a site is hosting Spyware or something else the user won’t want to install, we warn them. The warnings show next to the result. We find this will help users be safer when searching. We plan to have user submissions at a later date.
The 3-column layout. despite having much more content. still loads very fast, and that’s an extremely important aspect of the search. We need search to load fast, and we’re looking into more methods to speed up the search engine results.
Another unique feature is the community results. These are links that the community that uses MSE360 thinks are important. For example, if I searched for Google Browser I would find that a user has submitted the Google Chrome website. Because this is the right result for me, that community result will stay at the top. We hope the addition of user-submitted results will make it that bit more relevant. After all robots aren’t as bright us Humans… yet!
Over the coming months we plan to add much more in the sense of community search. Users will be able to design their own custom modules for the search engine. We plan to launch a voting system similar to what Digg has next week. We’re still young, but feature-wise we’re growing fast. The majority of users we’ve surveyed preferred our alpha stage search engine to Cuil. The difference is that we’re not going to lie when it comes to marketing. We’re not a stage yet where anyone working on MSE360 can say ‘We’re perfect’, but slowly we plan to make it an extremely powerful search engine.
We’re also very certain on our Privacy policy. We don’t want the users being spied on. After all – without them, we’d be nothing. For this reason, we store nothing on our servers. We’ve got a lot coming soon, and I hope users keep updated with the barrage of new features we plan to release. That being said, search is still search. Users want to get to other sites, some search engines forget that.

Have you tried out MSE360 yet? What are your initial thoughts, and what feedback can you give to Daniel so he can take it back to his team?

Should Search Engines be Community Driven?

Chris — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:03:26 +0000

Should Search Engines be Community Driven? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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If you Google the word Chris, you will find me. If you’re not in Google, you’re just not there. Where do you go to search? Do you only use one search engine, or does it depend on what you’re looking for? Do you ever try any others? Have you thought about giving MSE360 a try?

We know getting used to new search formats can be hard, everyone who has worked on MSE360 has used Google an awful lot, never the less there are clear limitations in the single result | ad format. When you search with MSE360 you’re presented with a 3 column layout. This layout allows us to provide you with Blogs, Wikipedia, Web and images all on one page. You can also select between standard results and job results using the top of the page. We’ve designed the layout to be easy on the eyes, so let us know what you think!
Search is important in a search engine, that’s why we have used the best providers in the industry. Along with our own algorithmic system. The more a user clicks on certain websites the higher that site will rank. We’ve put in placed certain precautions to avoid anyone using this system to gain unfair advantages.
We know you’ve heard so many companies promise to stay true to there values, but we really do. Without you, our visitors we would just be a dump of boring code. Our main goal is to please you, and as a result we hope you will visit as again. Profit comes after success, not the other way around. Below is a simplistic explanation of MSE360’s values.

MSE360 is a good alternative to Google and other search engines, especially since it’s better than many resources out there at the time. It is fast, and it is comprehensive. Competition is a healthy thing.

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