Sputtr: Serious Searching

May 21, 2007 by Dan in Cool with 3 Comments

Remember the days of Metacrawler, where you could search multiple search engines at once? Sputtr borrows a page from that book by offering a clean and simple search engine site where you can search your favorites (eg. Google, Flickr, Reddit, del.icio.us, YouTube, Newsvine, etc) from one single page. Save time by searching from one central site rather than visiting each individually.

http://www.terminaldigit.com TerminalDigit

I was a huge metacrawler fan back in the day. This is a bit different though, since it doesn’t aggregate the results from various sites — it just sends you off to one site at a time with a pre-formed query URL. I think the Metacrawler method would be more useful because then I wouldn’t have to remember where I saw something before I could search (successfully) for it.
http://www.musmo.com KwangErn Liew

Hm, would be nice if they search on all sites and give the top 3 links all in one page.

And maybe create group searches. e.g. Shop searches would include eBay, Amazon, etc results.

Now, that would be AWESOME! Also all they need now is those search plugin for FF/IE/etc. :)
http://www.tagworld.com/exer/ Exer

Back in the “day” – you know, pre-Google – I used to use a site called Dogpile.com. I still remember our hapless computer teacher in high school banning that domain simply because she didn’t like the “sound” of it. You’ve got to love how those non-technical people used to somehow fall into the “tech” teaching positions.

Sputtr: Serious Searching

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