Samfind.com - Build Your Own Search Engine

Samfind is a customizable search engine that allows you to choose which sites and which topics you use when you perform searches. The basic homepage allows you to choose amongst Google, Yahoo, and MSN and also to filter for news, maps, banking, blogs, shopping, or email. The interesting part about Samfind is that you can add practically any site that you’d like to search within and also customize which topics it searches for. This customizable aspect makes SamFind much more than a typical search aggregation site since it allows users to enter the sites that they visit most often and aggregate them into their own customized search engine.

“samfind is a convenient way to access the websites that you use. you choose the topics and the websites within them and use samfind as your homepage or as a widget on your your homepage system.”

The ability to completely customize your own search engine to make it search through the sites that you use most could make Samfind a big hit.

How will they convince the mainstream to give this site a whirl? It is definitely an interesting idea and one that could eventually attract a significant user base if they can figure out how to attract them in the first place.