PreviewSeek - New Web Search Engine
by Michael Arrington on October 16, 2005
Company: PreviewSeek
Launched: August 2005
Status: Angel Funding
Location: London, UK

PreviewSeek is a new London-based search engine created by Chris Hong that is very quietly impressing people with a number of innovating features.

Basic search results are great but nothing to get overly excited about. The useful features include disambiguation of queries (are you searching for “apple” the fruit, or “apple” the computer”?), preview of search pages (think Browster), and better refining of searches.

Understanding Your Query

PreviewSeek does a good job at attempting to determine meaning from a query. Type in “Java” and you get a result set with a numer of options for the query, including the island, the programming language, and even the coffee.

Preview Results

This is my favorite feature. PreviewSeek allows you to preview search results in much the same way as Browster (our profile), except without the download and the ads. It’s a great way quickly scan results without actually clicking away from previewseek.

Search Refinement

For any given query PreviewSeek will suggest a number of refinement options on the left sidebar, which greatly assist in drilling down on a particular search.

Comments

¿Do you know http://clusty.com/? It also has preview, and clusters, it has a lot of time.

Sorry for my English, I´m from Spain :)

 

Clusty - a friend of mine adopted it as the best search engine.

 

Wow, thanks for the tip on Previewseek. It is very nice! After playing around for awhile, I thought the coolest feature was how it is able to parse results from Wikipedia and then lets you add them to your search queries!

Pretty neat.

 

The disambiguation is based on Wikipedia content, as are the excerpts at the top of each results list.

Hopefully Previewseek will acknowledge this soon.

 

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Previewseek is one of the best engines I have ever tried. It’s quicklook option helps me a lot. It’s results are stunningly as expected.

 

anyone know…..?
will previewseek.com operate country wise??

like, previeseek.com.au, previewseek.in, previewseek.ca

 

The results preview pane is pretty impressive. Searching for terms like “Oracle”, “UNIX” “AJAX” yields meaningful results indeed.

Are previewseek guys implementing NGDas well?

~Chinmay

 

For previewing search results, Link-Preview ( http://www.globefeed.com/linkpreview.html ) also can be used.

 

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