More Blog Search Options at Zuula

If you haven’t checked out Zuula’s blog search capabilities recently, I suggest you do. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the many different blog search engines Zuula now offers.

Until recently, the blog search options at Zuula were limited to Google blog search, Technorati, IceRocket blog search, and Topix blog search.

To these original four engines, however, we’ve added another five — for a total of nine (yes, nine) blog search “tabs”. The additional engines are Blogdigger, Bloglines, Blogpulse, Feedster, and Sphere.

Thus, if you’re looking for all the recent blog postings on a certain subject, there’s no better place to do your searching than at Zuula.

When you’re using Zuula blog search, you may find that some of the tabs return results a bit slowly. This is merely a reflection of the fact that the source engines often return results slowly themselves. Unfortunately, we can’t do much about this. We can only return results as fast as we get them, and some services simply take a while to report results (as many blog search users are painfully aware!).

It’s also worth mentioning that, for all included blog search engines, Zuula always displays blog search results. By default, some of the source engines return a mix of blog, news, and other types of search results. We have made certain, however, that the results we display are just the blog search results.

Finally, when you’re using Zuula blog search, you have the option of “dragging-n-dropping” tabs so that they are in your personally preferred order. If your preferred blog search engine is Sphere, for example, you can move its tab so that it’s the first in the row. That way, every time you do a blog search, you’ll see results from Sphere first.

(The ability to “drag-n-drop” tabs is available, by the way, for all search types at Zuula.)

Filed under: Blog search, Zuula
Filed by Boris at 1:12 pm on Wednesday, March 28, 2007    

5 Comments »

Comment by Yogesh K. Upadhyaya

April 22, 2007 @ 13:14

Sir:

Congratulations for launching the wonderful Zuula website! It is distinctly different than other mother search engine sites.

We have published a complete article about your website in February 2007 issue of IT-BHU Chronicle. It is a monthly news magazine published by Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

http://www.itbhu.org/chronicle/archives/2007/02/index.html#001161

Regards,

Yogesh K. Upadhyaya
Editor,
IT-BHU Chronicle
http://www.itbhu.org/chronicle

Comment by alan fluhrer

May 16, 2007 @ 14:44

I have been trying out Zuula, very nice job folks. A question, can Zuula use search operators such as inurl: etc….thanks

Comment by Nice But

May 21, 2007 @ 6:28

nice to have nine engines covered like this; however, if I have to tab between the result pages per engine I don’t feel like I have won a whole lot (compared to using each of the/se SEs separately).
Would It be possible to
- collate the garnered resoults into one page,
- mabye rank them according to times hit
- accordingly eliminate multiple listings in collated results (like list a result _once_ with number of references (x) appended or something?

I know you’re in Beta and don’t mean to be pushy or anything; just my two cents. I remember I loved metacrawler.com back then. :-)

Cheers!

Comment by klhrevolutionist

June 16, 2007 @ 19:50

I’m wondering why when I press the arrow tab on the search results page that the page itself does not go to that search page.

Do you all plan on implementing that ?

Comment by Boris

June 18, 2007 @ 1:16

Good point, KLHRevolutionist. As you’ve probably noticed, the arrow next to the tabs on search results pages only appears when there are more tabs than can be shown on the screen. We included the arrow so that people could “slide the tabs over” to see more tabs.

That said, I see your point. When the arrow is displayed, there’s a natural tendency to think that clicking on the arrow will move you to the next tab — i.e., the one right after the one you’re currently viewing.

So we’ll have to think a bit more about the functionality of the arrow tab, and whether we should change it a bit, or add some other controls in that area of the page.

Thanks for the feedback!

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