Clusty

Clusty is one that I have not previously heard of. It is a metasearcher that searches in Ask, GigaBlast, LookSmart, MSN, Open Directory, and Wisenut. The unique thing about Clusty is that it "clusters" search results by topic instead of having to sort through too many results. The advanced page allows user to turn off/on a filter for offensive content. When I did the assignment at the bottom of the tutorial (I had nver used this metasearcher before) the engine first brought up all the hits, and to the left were the list of clusters. It's kind of like a "Did you mean..." feature because it narrows your results in a way. In the example WMD, there were several things that WMD could stand for. It was very helpful to have the search engine attempt to sipher through the results for me. It actually did some of the work.