MegaSearch Widget for NoteTaker enables users to conduct multiple engine searches simultaneously.
MegaSearch is a powerful widget designed to handle the complexities of multiple search engines. With different search engines using different methodologies to prioritize results, it can be challenging to compare and contrast the top-listed results from Google, Teoma, Yahoo!, and MSN.
The solution is MegaSearch - a widget that allows users to conduct a search query on all four engines simultaneously. By posting the search query to each engine, MegaSearch collects the results in a NoteTaker notebook. The widget eliminates any duplicate results and orders the remaining results based on the average of their individual search engine rankings.
This algorithm ensures that the most relevant and valuable results appear at the top of the list. Results that show up in more than one search engine are grouped together, and within each group, results are sorted according to their average search engine ranking.
MegaSearch extracts only those links that correspond directly to search results, ensuring that extraneous ads, links, and parts of the search engine sites are not included. After the search is completed, webpages may be loaded by hand or all at once using the ``Load MegaSearch Pages" script within NoteTaker.
There are a few notes to keep in mind when using MegaSearch. A new NoteTaker notebook is created for each new search, and collecting all results may take some time depending on the speed of your computer and internet connection. The notebook returns to the original search page at the end of the search to let users know the process is complete.
Finally, Ask.com (a.k.a. AskJeeves.com) is not included in the search engines because it uses and yields Teoma's identical results. Some duplicates may remain due to the fact that search engines may refer to the same page differently. Users must have NoteTaker or NoteTaker Trial to use MegaSearch. Overall, MegaSearch is an incredibly useful software for anyone looking to take their search engine productivity to the next level.
The solution is MegaSearch - a widget that allows users to conduct a search query on all four engines simultaneously. By posting the search query to each engine, MegaSearch collects the results in a NoteTaker notebook. The widget eliminates any duplicate results and orders the remaining results based on the average of their individual search engine rankings.
This algorithm ensures that the most relevant and valuable results appear at the top of the list. Results that show up in more than one search engine are grouped together, and within each group, results are sorted according to their average search engine ranking.
MegaSearch extracts only those links that correspond directly to search results, ensuring that extraneous ads, links, and parts of the search engine sites are not included. After the search is completed, webpages may be loaded by hand or all at once using the ``Load MegaSearch Pages" script within NoteTaker.
There are a few notes to keep in mind when using MegaSearch. A new NoteTaker notebook is created for each new search, and collecting all results may take some time depending on the speed of your computer and internet connection. The notebook returns to the original search page at the end of the search to let users know the process is complete.
Finally, Ask.com (a.k.a. AskJeeves.com) is not included in the search engines because it uses and yields Teoma's identical results. Some duplicates may remain due to the fact that search engines may refer to the same page differently. Users must have NoteTaker or NoteTaker Trial to use MegaSearch. Overall, MegaSearch is an incredibly useful software for anyone looking to take their search engine productivity to the next level.
What's New
Version 1.4: N/A