Web's Biggest adds pictures service to search
7 March 2005
The Web's Biggest search engine has enhanced its search results with pictures of more than 40 million websites.
The pictures appear whenever users pass their mouse over an icon beside a website's URL, delivering an easy preview of each site. According to a study by VeriTest, website thumbnails reduce the number of clicks required to find relevant websites by 50-70 per cent.
Santa Monica-based Web's Biggest also uses information gathered by its website to summarise website content, enabling users to search website summaries as a "superior way to find the top websites on a particular topic".
Searchers can also change the descriptions of familiar websites and the search engine stores all past descriptions of websites in a database so other users can undo or correct descriptions. Web's Biggest is the world's biggest "wiki", a service that allows users to collectively author web documents.
"Having hundreds of thousands of editors, millions of website descriptions, and tens of millions of pictures is what makes Web's Biggest unique," says company spokesperson Paul Aunger.
Web's Biggest has licensed the entire Whois database of more than 40 million domain names, enabling it to search almost every website in the world. The search engine lets users sort their search results so the most popular websites display first and results also include the Web's Biggest "Popularity Rank," ranking popular websites based on the number of visitors they receive from all sources.
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