Weighting your search terms

I just discovered SearchCloud.net - yet another search engine, but with a few differences.

For starters, you can indicate the relative importance of your search terms by typing the words in a larger or smaller font. So instead of searching  "electoral college" obama mccain as three equal terms, I could specify that the phrase "electoral college" is the key concept by selecting a larger font on SearchCloud.

And the search results have an interesting twist as well. In addition to the "traditional" search result display we're accustomed to, there is a tabular display that shows the first 200-or-so search results and the calculated relevance score for each one. Looking at the results of my example, it appears that, after about the first 20 sites, the relevance drops off.

Like so many other interesting search engines, it's in beta. In this case, that means no help files, no FAQs and no About Us information. It appears to limit search results to under 250 hits. And search results are sometimes a bit squirrely. But it might be just the ticket if you need to weight the relative importance of search terms.

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[Sasha]

You might want to check out this one: www.cloudtuner.com