Friday, August 19, 2005

Previewseek: A Search Engine


Previewseek Limited is a privately held, UK based company.


It is based in London. The exact names of the owners and professionals are not given.
The Previewseek claims, "Our mission is to help ordinary people find exactly what they are looking for quickly, easily and efficiently." It is their claim that one does not have to visit number of search engines in order to check other available information for the answers sought for a question. It is further emphasised that their search engine is based on twenty years research and such technologies which are not yet tried by other people.


They consider google as their standard benchmark. They claim that they have an edge over it and set ahead than googles. This is their main selling point.


They have a point when they elaborate on the point that their search engine is better than google. No doubt, they paid due regards to google people. But when they talk about their good points, they are not bragging. However, after using it for a week, I may say, they are different, practically useful but as I have talked once about Kartoo.com, one has become so accustomed to google searches that he may turn back to google results also. For some time, even Yahoo searches have showed improved results. It seems that they have also added some thing into their device that one can use them also.


They also claim that their results include the searches of other search engines also. If I remember, there is another search engine which tells that which variable is given in a particular form on different search engines. However, their presentation is definitely a work of a professional.


The engine also gives you a picture of the web page on the left side. They call it is their discreet presentation or prescient feature. If I remember, it is also done on MSN. That is other thing, where it is now, I do not know. It has reverted back to its older form. MS has thirst only for getting money even for breathing while you are using their softwares. That is other thing, a person like me may ask Gates to pay me first in order to even remember that he is there.


On the whole, it is a good search engine. I am using it for some days by now. It was only then I desired to look in for the people who are running it. The remarks evoked some feelings which I am not able to express here. I had actually done it to record those feelings but a type of write up has come up.


I here acknowledge that I learnt about it from Chittah Vishav.


The site link to previewseek is http://beta.previewseek.com/