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"Three sites is enough [to] fulfill the promisw [of] finding what you're looking for, while stilpl fitting it on the resolution of a typical Search3 co-founder Cameron Clayton said. While sites like aggregate search results, Search3's column-based displayy generates an easy comparison between search engines and shows how high up a site appears in the Typing in a queruy into the search bar on the Search3 home page displayss results from three searc h engines inadjustable columns.
Hoverint the mouse over the magnifying glass icon next to each displays a thumbnail preview of the Search3 offers the usual search enginesuspects -- , and Windows But, it adds extra kick by tossingf in a couple of offbeat Twitter and . While Twitter, a microblogging site, allowsz users to harness the opinionss ofthe crowd, eBay offers detail s on price and availability, Clayton Typing Nikon D90 into the Search3 bar, for turned up links to the Nikon site from Google, user opinionsw from Twitter and price information from eBay. Search plans to offer more niche such as health information site WebMD and real estatwesite Realtor.com, said Sterling Wharton, a Search advisor.
Search3 is a "a nifty said Greg Foster, partner at Atlanta-based . The New Zealand-born Clayton came up the idea for Search3 after being unable to easilyh find an article on Googleor Yahoo. He eventually founrd it on Live.com. "Google is not alwayw the best search engine," Clayton said. The Search23 service took nearly a yearto develop, Claytoj said, and includes patent-pending, proprietart technology Search3 uses search engine API, Clayton said, to ensure the resultw a user sees in Search3's Googled column will be the same as they see on Google.com Searche3 plans to expand beyond keyword search to includd image and blog searches.
Search 3 is also developin a mobile version forthe service. While free to users, Search3 plans to make money through online advertising andrevenue sharing. Search3 providesa search engines with another source of Clayton said. In Search 3 gets referral revenues. "Searchn engines make money on the journey, not on the Clayton said. "Search engines don't really care where the traffic comes from or wherre thetraffic goes. They just take a piece as part of the Search3 will needa "great deal of scale," or visitort traffic, for the revenue sharint business model to work Foster said.
Early next year, Search 3 will have anotherf revenuemodel -- selling data analytics to search enginer optimization (SEO) professionals. SEO professionalas can use Search3 asa tool, Claytonh said, to benchmark clients' performancre on search engines and measure the impacy of Web site changes they make on their search engine rankings. Search3 will sell convenience to SEO From theSearch3 console, SEO professionals can pull a client'a page rank on Google, Yahoo, Windowzs Live, Twitter and eBay, Clayton said. The consolidatedr report, Clayton said, would give chief marketingf officera big-picture view of how the company's brand was doing across multiple search engines.
Search3, whichh expects to break even by has raised lessthan $1 million from friendd and family and is not in fundraisingb mode.