Such innovations are marked improvements over the way standard directories and search engines operate. Over 600,000 sites, from lists of unclaimed refunds to tax instructions for Canadians. Excite , like many engines, ranks results based on a combination of keyword matches, how often keywords appear in a document, and how often other sites link to a page. Sifting through content other than text has been an awkward part of finding things online. Savage Beast Technologies' navigation engine lets music fans troll through thousands of songs, looking for new tunes.
Users enter their favorite songs or artists to generate comparable results.
Musicians listen to every song in the database and analyze it for up to 100 different factors, like lyrical content or instrumentation style. Your humble servant. But the humble servant sometimes strikes out. Portals are also fine-tuning their technology. Dogpile lets you hunt solely among MP3 files or streaming media, and later this year Lycos will let searchers restrict queries within categories like travel or sports.