Search Computing Blog

Mamma is a “smart” metasearch engine – it’s like using multiple search engines, all at the same time. Founded in 1996, its one of the first and most popular search engines on the web today, with a rich history.

[Source http://www.mamma.com/]

Hittery.com lets you create a personal search dashboard. You can simply arrange your favorite search engines on one page. Add, remove, drag and drop searchboxes to your liking. Hittery.com provides two types of search engines: custom search engines and normal search engines.

Custom search engines
These are search engines that only show results from carefully selected websites that publish useful and trustworthy content. For example, the custom searchengine “Health” only searches through 75 trusted medical websites. This way, you will not get results from websites that do not add any value. We have selected and checked over 12.000 websites and added them to relevant search engines. Google provides us with the search technology.

Normal search engines
These are all well known searchengines like YouTube, Google, flickr, digg.com, and eBay. But we also provide you with handy search engines for Jobs, Weather, Traffic conditions, Travelguides, News, Facebook, TV Guides and Stock quotes. And many more.

[Source Hittery]

[Website http://www.hittery.com/]

Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they’re looking for.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk.
Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos’ personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions.
Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

[Source CrunchBase]

[Website http://www.kosmix.com/]

LeapFish is a search aggregator that retrieves results from other portals and search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Blogs, Videos etc…. It is a registered trademark of Dotnext Inc.

Leapfish is a type of metasearch site known as a search aggregator. Search aggregators compile and list the results taken from other search engines, in addition to providing their own content (generally in the form of advertising or result positioning based on internal algorithms.

In the case of LeapFish, the top results of any given search can be advertisements, where an individual or company can pay a registration fee to LeapFish to be positioned at the top of the result list in response to certain keyword searches.

[Surce Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfish]

[Website http://www.leapfish.com/]