Webnocular
July 27, 2010
I looked at this metasearch system a couple of weeks ago. I revisited it because a reader sent me a link to it, asking for my opinion. You can locate the site at http://www.webnocular.com/. Metasearch and mobile search are popular. The reason is that the cost of brute force Web indexing has made it impossible for smaller firms to compete. Exalead, now a unit of the French superstar services firm Dassault, has built an index of about eight billion Web pages. I use it first and then Google for my research. Google returns too many irrelevant results to keep this goose happy. Exalead’s method, on the other hand, does a much better job for the types of queries I routinely run. I also use Exalead to index Google’s own Web logs. I find that Google’s consumerist approach makes it tough to pinpoint some of Google’s own blog content. You can try the Exalead Google blog index at http://overflight.labs.exalead.com/.
Now what about Webnocular?
The system takes a query, performs some normal metasearch tricks, fires off the request, gets the results back, and performs some special magic. The idea is that metasearch systems do not have to brute force index the Web like Exalead, Google, and Microsoft do. Heck, it is expensive and more complicated than it looks to the home economics majors who end up working at the azurini (second and third tier consulting companies).
A query for “enterprise search” returned some results after some chugging. The results were okay, but not as useful to me as a query for the phrase on Exalead, Ixquick, or Red Tram, which is becoming one of my favorite current information indexing services.
I did not download the add in toolbar. I find these invasive. I don’t tweet and I don’t post to Facebook. Who cares what an addled goose likes. If you are into tool bars and social media, you may want to give Webnocular a test drive. The company offers code “extenders” such as an Instant Messenger service which is “a full-featured chat program.” The company says:
[Webnocular Messenger] includes features such as Moderated chat, high load support, font/color/ customization, emoticons, private messaging, private chat room, profanity filtering, ignoring users, file Transfer, and many more!
Our take on the service is that it implements some good ideas, and it could catch fire among some user segments.According to Most Popular Websites, Webnocular is in the top million most popular Web sites.
Stephen E Arnold, July 27, 2010
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