Find.com Adds Goliath
I’ve been doing some searching on Find.com, which I reviewed in ONLINE back in September/October 2004. It still says it’s in beta and has the tag line “True Business Search.” It’s added some premium content in the last year and sports a new tab, its fifth, for Articles. Unfortunately, the “how to use Find.com” page still shows only the original four tabs. Articles is sourced from Gale’s Goliath product, with all articles priced at $9.95. The search engine still has some problems distinguishing business web sites from non-business information and it no longer tells you which search engines it is metasearching. Premium results no longer show up at the top of a Web search. Instead there are lots, and I mean lots, of “sponsored links” (aka ads). Once you’ve done a search, you are presented with possible search refinements, similar to what you see at Northern Light or Vivisimo, but not always as useful. I did a search on a company name and one of the suggested refinements was “forgot your password?” Hmmm. Needs some work.