I just found a really cool search engine!

[BattyDem]

I found it while browsing the Firefox website for extensions. (The extension link is below.)

It's called Clusty. (Feel free to write your own joke about the name! :P)
It's unique because it searches multiple engines and "clusters" the results in various ways.

For example:

I did a search for "Bill Clinton" - Clusty returned the top results from various search engines. But ... there's a sidebar which allows you to "cluster" the results in various ways:

By Topic - which will sort the results by specific topics, such as 42nd President, books, jokes, impeachment, Hillary, etc.

By Sources - which will sort the results by specific sources and/or search engines, such as AP, AskJeeves, NY Times, Open Directory, Wikipedia, etc.

By URLs - which will sort the results by specific Domain types, such as .com, .org, .gov, .edu, etc.


Also, there are tabs at the top of the page which allow you to get even more specfic about the type of results you get: News, Images, Shopping, Wikipedia and Gossip. There's even a "Customize" tab that allows you to add several more sort tabs from a list that includes eBay, Blogs, Gov (U.S. government and politics), BBC News, Washington Post and FirstGov.

Yes, I know you can do this kind of "sorting" just by entering very specific infomation into any search engine, but I find it convenient to have the results pre-sorted in various ways and I like the fact that I can switch between the different types of sorted results without doing multiple searches. :-)

Check it out! http://www.clusty.com

If you really like the site, there are toolbars available for Firefox and IE, as well as a plugin for Mozilla. (Links to all three are at Clusty.com)

Here's the link to the Firefox extension:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=388


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I never know where website links are supposed to be posted, so I always put them here in the Lounge.
It would be so much easier if we had a Links group. ;)

[tammywammy]

1. Thanks

I love Firefox, but I don't think I'm utilizing it as much as I could. I have to use Explorer at work and I'm hating it.

[BattyDem]

2. Firefox rules ...

especially when you add the extensions. You can do so much with them. It's great because you can choose extensions that meet your specific needs and allow you to become a "power surfer" based on the way you use the Internet. :-)

[NYC]

3. Thank you.

I'll try it soon. :hi: