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Rexyo - the non-search searchengine

By scott

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Just been trying out a new search engine called Rexyo.

It’s brilliant - sadly, not in a good way.

According to Rexyo: “Rexyo is a versatile, highly scalable search engine currently available as an online Beta version. It is considered different from other search engines because it can search visually within images and video but also in audio and other types of data.”
You got the look

The UI is ugly. They seem to have taken Exalead’s idea of allowing you to save some favourites to the page, but not bothered about how it would look. I do Like the tags (recently searched for words) box, or at least the idea of it, as the execution of it is bad.

Searching

As is my way with all search engines, I started with the easy task of doing searches for: Informationoverlord, scott vine, and ioverlord.

Results

Informationoverlord = 0
scott vine = 0 [But helpfully its Spelling Manager came up and said: wrongly spelled: scott suggestion: scout vine ]
iOverlord = 0

Ok, maybe it is not meant to tackle such hard tasks, so I decided to take another approach and search for: eMusic (as I spoke about that in my last post); Ryan Adams (as I am going to see him in concert this evening) and Google (to see if Rexyo could recognise a search engine).

Results

eMusic = 612 [ although Spelling Manager popped up again. wrongly spelled: eMusic suggestion: music ] Reasonable number of hits on this one. One slight problem though: apparently it is incapable of finding eMusic’s website. I went through the first 10 pages of hits and it wasn’t anywhere to be seen.
Ryan Adams = 869 [ Spelling manager: wrongly spelled: Ryan suggestion: ran Adams / wrongly spelled: Adams suggestion: Ryan dams ] Only had to go to page 4 of the results to find ryan-adams.com. A success in Rexyo terms.
Google = 957 [ Spelling manager. wrongly spelled: Google suggestion: cackle ] Once again, I had to give up after 10 pages of results, without seeing site of google.com

One final note, a search for Rexyo on Rexyo doesn’t find rexyo.com.

Maybe I have got it all wrong and it can ONLY seach within images, audio and video? But even then, this is quite possibly the worst search tool I have ever used. Dreadful on a quite spectacular scale.

Full post as published by Information Overload on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).