This week I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the features I would really love to have in my perfect search engine. Stuff that would make my life easier and help me find the right result more often.
The tools I’ve added probably won’t help the average searcher but for internet marketers they would be amazingly cool.
Features include:
- A “No Wikipedia” button
- Sliders to turn down the reliance on domain trust
- Clickable map to refine queries by country
- Slider to dial down the effects of a penalty (so people can still find John Chow)
The engine would also automatically replace Digg pages with the page that was submitted to Digg with a tiny link next to the listing so people could read the Digg comments thread if they really wanted to.
Let hope Google takes this advice on board.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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Maybe you’ve just found your own Niche here Patrick – A search engine using similar ranking algo’s from a major engine, but optimised for Internet Marketers & Webmasters. Like the Sphinn of the Search engine world?
Matthew
It’s probably worth pointing out that Google does let people control the domain trust issue to a certain extent. For example I rank quite well for most competitive terms if you restrict results to the past 6 months.
It will never happen but the Digg one is a very cool idea, what is the point of visiting the Digg page other than to read a few anal comments.
You could create a FF plugin to do the Digg and Wiki thing, that might be a nice bit of linkbait for you, not sure if it would get a front page though
I’m interested that your first one is “no wikipedia” Is that jealousy on your part that they have a guaranteed top 10 for every work in every language? As a searcher, I’ve never felt like seeing them there was problematic, even if I rarely click it.
On the screenshot, I LOVE the graphic up top reminding people to stumble. Great idea. Mind if I borrow that?
Very clever use of .gif
you are evil :>
Feel free to borrow it Jeremy.
The best idea i’ve ever seen.
It would be a great stuff for power users.
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