The founders of Jux2, a great metasearch engine, put it up for sale on ebay yesterday. John Battelle wrote about this yesterday as well.
Aaref Hilaly, one of the founders (and a friend) emailed to tell me about it, saying that the founders just don’t have enough time to put into the project and deal with growth.
Starting price? $0.01, with no reserve. Current price? $26,100 with 7 days left.
Jux2 won Search Engine Watch’s best metadata search engine award earlier this year. It’s an excellent way to view the big search engine results side-be-side, and has a very clean and usable interface.
This ‘meta search’ site is doing nothing different than any cottage script code you can find online or just browsing through tech books at Barnes and Noble.
It’s a meta search engine, not a metadata search engine.
Meta search engines (like mamma.com) scrape results from other search engines (google etc).
Metadata search engines rely on metadata associated with webpages. I don’t think there are any left (eg: Lycos used to do this)
Esa meta search engine cerro por $100k + ya en ebay. Que perdida para el comprador! Una script de $39.99 puede hacer ese trabajo en buscadores y ademas screen scraping es ilegal. El comprador no podra hacer profits de los resultados de los buscadores porque es illegal. Yo le plantee este problema como pregunta al vendedor a traves de ebay y ni me respondio. El sabe porque.
Una vez google le banee la entrada los 100k se fueron a la mierda. Si no respeta los robots de google pueden meterse en un gran problema.
Hi Michael,
The jux2 metasearch engine has completed it’s move to new ownership and several new features have been added, including a toolbar for MSIE, a jux2 search plugin for Firefox and the addition of Google search results.