Share Your Search Results with Jeteye

Here are a few things about the Jeteye:

• Jeteye provides results from Google (default), Lycos, MSN, Ask Jeeves, and Wisenut.

• Image searching is also available and provided by Ditto
• PPC Advertising (via Ask Jeeves) on web results pages, Jetpaks do not show advertising
• Clicking a box next to each result adds the title/description/URL to Jetpack
• Also possible to manually add/edit any URL/Title/Description to Jetpak
• Link descriptions come from what's listed on search results page but can be easily edited
• Tags can be assigned to Jetpaks
• Creator can decide if other users can edit/add to their Jetpack
• Jetpaks can be shared publicly and/or e-mailed to contacts
• Other Jetpaks can be included in other Jetpaks
• Jetpacks are searchable. Note: Your searching metadata NOT the full text of the pages included in a Jetpak
Caching pages that are saved in a Jetpak would be useful since content can change so quickly. Currently, this service is not provided.
• Coming Soon: IM, text message or RSS notification of jetpaks sent to you and similar notification if someone adds to your Jetpak(s)

Challenges faced by search engines

• The web is growing much faster than any present-technology search engine can possibly index (see distributed web crawling).
• Many web pages are updated frequently, which forces the search engine to revisit them periodically.
• The queries one can make are currently limited to searching for key words, which may result in many false positives.
• Dynamically generated sites may be slow or difficult to index, or may result in excessive results from a single site.
• Many dynamically generated sites are not indexable by search engines; this phenomenon is known as the invisible web.
• Some search engines do not order the results by relevance, but rather according to how much money the sites have paid them.
• Some sites use tricks to manipulate the search engine to display them as the first result returned for some keywords. This can lead to some search results being polluted, with more relevant links being pushed down in the result list.

History

The first Web search engine was "Wandex", a now-defunct index collected by the World Wide Web Wanderer , a web crawler developed by Matthew Gray at MIT in 1993. Another very early search engine, Aliweb , also appeared in 1993, and still runs today. The first "full text" crawler-based search engine was WebCrawler , which came out in 1994. Unlike its predecessors, it let users search for any word in any web page, which became the standard for all major search engines since. It was also the first one to be widely known by the public. Also in 1994 Lycos (which started at Carnegie Mellon University ) came out, and became a major commercial endeavor.

Three New General Purpose Search Engines
Competition for Google?

• WISEnut 

[http://www.wisenut.com]
• Teoma 

[http://www.teoma.com]
• GuideBeam 

[http://www.guidebeam.com]

The Future: 
New Tools on the Way

When you learn about new search tools and share that knowledge with others, you not only improve your own searching, but you help to make a better future for all searchers.