Umibozu.net - Digg Meets Google

“Think Digg meets Google” is the way the people responsible for this search engine are announcing it to all and sundry. If you give it a try, it dawns on you that Umibozu is a meta search engine where human feedback is taken into account as far as the results go. Obviously, human input adds accountability to searchability and search results themselves. The analogy that is employed, then, is not entirely inaccurate.

In terms of comprehensiveness, Umibozu can simultaneously crawl Google, Yahoo and Bing. The results are presented to you side by side, making comparisons an easy and immediate task. Moreover, it allows you to bookmark you favorite websites and add a description of each and every one of them. That means that Umibozi doubles as a portable bookmark system, letting you access these pages and sites you like best.

Besides, the team behind it aims to bring more humanity to the Internet and the world as a whole by actively supporting humanitarian and charitable causes along with its partners and those who use the site.

When all is said and done, this is search portal that does what it sets out to do. I am a little unsure about its “Change The World” tag, but you can’t accuse the team responsible for it of not aiming high, can you?

“In today's modern Internet, search engines have full control over the web, they can make sites be the center of attention or make them disappear altogether in a flash. A web site that is not referenced by Google, Yahoo or MSN is virtually nonexistent to the average user; it is also largely accepted that search engines cover only 20% of the World Wide Web today.

In other words, search engine algorithms dictate which web sites are 'visible' and which web sites don't exist. There is nothing democratic about it, the search engines decide. Either you fit in the system, or you're out of the game. No matter how good your web site is, no matter how good users think your web site is, machines decide if it is a good match for you or not. It could be full of junk for all you know, as long as it follows the rules of page ranking and other criterias set by the algorithms. Like it or not, there is a dictatorship of information, no matter how good the intentions of these companies are, they have control over what you see.

Who can better judge if a web site is a good match for your key words, if it's not you? Aren't you the one who should judge if a web site is right for you?”

It lets you search Google, Yahoo and Bing at the same time, and in a way that aims to be more representative than traditional ones as human input is added into the process.

What kind of Twitter integration is provided?