ENG-122 ZAPMETA REVIEW

ZapMeta Review
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Strengths
Uses major search engines like yahoo and google
Organized very well and easy to read.
Clusters other relevant words to the right of the page
Weaknesses
Only available in english currently.
Search Engines and Directories Searched
google, yahoo, ask, live search, altavista
Databases
web, images, video, mp3
Operators
Default operation
Search operators supported
search engine math, boolean
Proximity or exact phrase
proximity
Truncation or stemming
truncation
Wildcard
Other
Case Sensitivity
not case sensitive
Stop Words
all, any, and
Advanced Search Function
Yes
Limits
Date
no
File type
no
Field searching
no
Language
english
Family filter
no
Domain or site
no
Other
Sorting
sorts by relevance
Display
Number of hits
yes
Open in new window or tab
yes
Cached pages
no
Clustering
clusters at the right of the page
Thumbnails
no
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search
no
Spell check
no
Sponsored results identified
no
Update date
Other
Help Function
no
Special Features
saves previous searches and search by clusters