Some comparison between gloofi and other search engines

Hello all,

yesterday I found a new article about Mahalo at Techcrunch and I had to check it out. Go to http://www.mahalo.com/ and see for yourself to make up your mind. The following blog by PassingNotes.com hammers it down as shit!

Also anounced this week was new MyLifeSearch, check out the Techcrunch blog about this. Nobody knows what it is or what it can do, but they already got some buzz.

Well, I do not have that buzz but I am sure that gloofi would easily surpass each one of those contestants and might even come close to some bigger guys like Google, Yahoo! or MSN.

Why?

Here are some quick comparisons:

	Google	Yahoo!	MSN	Mahalo	gloofi
Page Ranking	Unique and proven automatic Google algorithm	Some type of ranking similar to Google	Some type of ranking similar to Google	No ranking!!!	Very complex ranking, considering Links, traffic, hits, user rating, bookmarking, social linking and more
How get pages entered into search index	Mainly through automatic crawling	Automatic crawling	Automatic crawling	All hand made by specified personnel	Hand entered by ANY user plus automatic crawling
Updating of search index	Pages are updated automatically between 1 day and 4 weeks	Pages are updated automatically between 1 day and 4 weeks	Pages are updated automatically between 1 day and 4 weeks	No automatic update	Pages are updated automatically between 30 minutes and 4 weeks (Regulated by users) plus immediate push technology
Saving used searches	Yes, but have to log on	No	No	No	Yes, access able through the “My gloofi” Menu at any time
Marking unwanted pages	No	No	No	No	Yes, you can mark pages as positive or negative so you do not click on pages you don’t like
Sending Links from search result via email	No	No	No	Yes, but only for the Mahalo page	Yes, for any link found in the search result to send to   friends
Bookmarks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes, easily access able through the “My gloofi” menu
Voting for results	No	No	No	No	Yes, plus entering comments for each entry
Creating Item Groups	No	No	No	No	Yes, ANY entry can be grouped together by users for better results
Notes and Tags for Item	No	No	No	No	Any user can save notes and tags for each entry, only seen by the user
					Well, so much more…

I will open the site by the end of June in an Alpha version for you to get feedback. I also will reward each user for entering sites to the system by allowing to receive shares for the first million pages, because it is you, the users that make a site successful and so you should get something back;-)

OK, I will also upload a couple of videos soon about the current features so you can see, that Google and Co. is not the only way to search for items.

gloofi….search, find, connect!

gloofi heading on the big and small search engines!

Hello all,

Soon you will see an all new way to search the web.

End of July I will open up gloofi.com to the public in a first Alpha test run. gloofi will be the first “Web 2.0″ search engine there is. It does not solely rely on algorithm but more on users input. You are in control of what sites are indexed, what quality ranking they have and how they are displayed for your convenience. There are tools to send messages right on the search result, vote for entries and group them for better search results.

You decide whether the searches or your site hits are saved or not and with a never before seen super fast log-in for returning users, customizing your results have never been easier.

Real time indexing and updating is in your hands. Your Website can push via XML any second the updated data onto the gloofi server, even if your site is fully dynamic or AJAX driven. You can tell gloofi what Tags you want for the sites indexed and choose an update interval of your liking.

With many never before seen features representing in a search engine, gloofi will fight against Goliaths and Davids in the same field and show them that search can be personal. It is not about the algorithms it is about the users, about YOU.

See you real soon.

Martin

Sending a link via email without leaving the search result

Have you ever found a site and you wanted to send it to a friend? Sure you have (At least I did;-).

Usually you have to open your email program or log on to your online email account in order to do so. Overall, many steps are involved to just send an email of a link you found during search. That is not user friendly.

In gloofi you can do this without even leaving the search result page. Just click on “email It” and a window inside the result opens to enter the relevant information. In seconds you are done and “good to go” (I love that Taco Bell commercial…good to go;-)).

Reading and writing comments without leaving the result

This picture shows a comment window including ranking a user made for the selected item in the search result. You can read and write a comment without going somewhere else. All can be done on the same page and still have the search result at hand. That is how a search engine in our time should work!

gloofi enables you to make notes without leaving the result

gloofi is a heavily Javascript loaded page. Not only that AJAX and DHTML is a very important part of the site, also many modern and new techniques are used to make searching fun and interactive. Click on the “My Notes and Tags” link in each item menu and you can add Notes and Tags for your personal use without leaving the result page. See the next picture how a note will look like for an item.

gloofi main menu for each user

There is no search engine that provides you with a menu or any other easy to use functionality to access previous sites, previous searches or your account or account specific settings.

In the top right, there is a menu “my gloofi” which allows you to access previous searches, the one that are in the current session with one click or the ones that have been performed earlier with a option of today, yesterday, a week ago… The same is correct for sites you visited, so you do not have to think about “when or what page did I find last week?” or “How did I search to find this and that?”. It is all access able at your fingertips;-)

The following picture shows the list of previous searches including date and the possibility to delete the ones you don’t like or mistyped.

gloofi menu for each item

In the following pictures, you will see the menus for each item to give you more choices when getting a search result.

The first picture shows the menu to open a site direct, in a new browser window, get details and comments or a new result recommended by others that fits to this item.

The next picture shows the Action Menu With Translation Link (Only when necessary), Personal Notes and Tags, Bookmark the link in gloofi and mark the item positive or negative for future reference.

The third picture shows the quick preview menu were you can get a short overview of a web page. It shows the category of the item, the type and a short text, extracted from the original web page to help you on deciding if it is worthwhile clicking on the link.

Screenshot of gloofi search result # 2

This is a screenshot of a search result were you can see the top navigation to select categories, types and timeframe to create a better search result. You have the chance to get better details by refining your search.

Also, you see that the first result has a small blue bar under the item that shows that for this URL the search term was found many more times. By clicking on that you can see in the next picture a preview of 3 items found at that URL and a link to display all items found at that URL.

Screenshot # 1)

 Screenshot #2)

Screenshot of gloofi search result

Google is the current leader in Search, but have you ever wondered, why the result still looks like a web page that could be 10 years old? It is maybe because everybody is used to it or it is just the way it is, but I think we are now at Web 2.0 and so should a search result.

As you can see in the screenshot, There are many things different to any other search engine. On the left of each result item, you have a dynamic menu for that item.

The menu unfolds and displays different functionality, depending on item. The menu contains functions like going to site (You obviously need that;-)), opening in new window, opening details, comments, links, notes and stats about the site, adding Notes, adding to gloofi Bookmarks, translate page, mark as positive or negative (Only for you personally) and displaying a small preview of text so you can decide if it makes sense to go to this page.

The Item name or short description is in bold and in different color once the site has been visited. Behind the short description you see the last time you have visited that page. There can also be a small picture for each item.

On the bottom of each item you will see links to rate the item, read and write comments, send link via email, drop it in case it is SPAM, Bookmark it in your favorite social bookmarking page and finally you can see if you marked it positive, negative or if you have made some notes about this item entry.

Screenshot of gloofi start page with Top 10 results

This is a screenshot from the start page of gloofi.com. Any new customer will se the daily top 10 ranking of all sites or selected by categories or types. A more simple start page, similar to the good old Google page can be used also.