MSE360

Another new search engine launched in September called MSE360 - there must be a good reason behind the name but I don't know what it is (Msomething search engine 360 degrees maybe?). Anyway, it's still in very early days yet, but it's quite nice. It uses a 3 tier approach which I like (very similar to Ask, though I notice that the default there is to make it simple now, and you have to request the more 'complicated' version), but it's rather more cluttered than Ask's concept. However, you get a mix of images, web pages, Wikipedia results and weblog results all on one page.

It doesn't keep any information about who is searching on what (other engines take note), which is good. What's not so good is that it looks as though the functionality is quite limited, there's no advanced search and no help screens either, so it's all rather hit or miss. However, they're very open about the resource being beta, so I'm not going to be overly critical at this point. It's a nice search engine, they appear to be honest and open in their attempts, so give them a quick visit!

Comments

[Daniel Clarke]

Hi Phil thanks for your write up on MSE360.com. I think the one defining company element is we listen to feedback so after reading your post we got our code monkeys editing our alphas beta! We’ve now added some advanced search options and we’ve got plans to add much more when it comes to advanced search.

You can check out our advanced search at http://mse360.com/beta/advanced.php (It’s also the hub of various other in beta features that may or may not make it to the final version, including site icons for example).

You slightly touched upon our company values, and indeed I can promise I personally would prefer to see MSE360 die than to let up on our values of user Privacy and open standards.

I hope that you check back every now and then over the next few months while we roll out even more features.

Once again, Thanks for your comments!
Daniel Clarke, MSE360 Lead Programmer

[Daniel Clarke]

Oh and as an addation to my comment above, MSE stands for Multi Search Engine! So you was close. Multi as in multi formats :)