A search engine for spiders? (webcrawler.com)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	webcrawler.com
Date:	27/05/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good results

Disadvantages: Layout not that asthetic

Webcrawler was the first fully indexed search engine on the net but its days of working on its own are long gone, in 2001 they joined up with Excite and Dogpile and these days they collect links from the big 4: MSN, Yahoo, Ask and Google to come up with very relevant content.

They also have the possibility to search News, Images, Videos and both the Yellow and White pages but they lack in nationalised content - the homepage is US and there's no option to alter that to whereever you may be logging in from. Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Maps are 3 areas where Webcrawler really fail to find an option and fall behind Google.

The design of the site is straight forward and its easy enough to moderate your preferences, including filters and languages but there's something a little bit awkward and unbelievably unstylish about the site that is difficult to put a finger on. Without coming across as sounding like a girl - I think it's probably colour co-ordination lol. The results this site plucks are worth your time and they do of course have a toolbar on offer as well as the possibility to add a similar tool to your website but the name just isn't as easy to type in as google and there are a few features that could be added. It definitely gets in my rankings ahead of the likes of Yahoo and Ask but doesn't quite come close to google and may be behind the paying myhpf.com.

Summary: Not bad