Turbo10 Metasearch Engine - Calling all Specialist Search Engines - 19/12/2001.

London (19 December 2001) - Turbo10 Metasearch Engine (http://turbo10.com) launched a new service today, making it the first search engine to enable owners of niche, searchable databases to add their engines to the Turbo10 Metasearch Engine.

Unlike other engines, that only accept website submissions, Turbo10 is accepting submissions for specialist search engines via an online form - 'Add Search Engine.'

Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10's Co-founder and Managing Director, said, "By enabling website owners to add their engines we are increasing their exposure and uncovering information goldmines for the searcher."

Several specialist websites have already registered their engines for inclusion. One website, www.partypages.co.uk is a party planner, providing a unique database of party suppliers in the United Kingdom. For example, if you search on 'balloons,' quality results from PartyPages will be included in the Turbo10 results set.

"Traditional crawler-based search engines like Altavista and Google cannot index other search engines. By using unique search engine adapter technology we are going where crawler-based search engines can't go," Nigel Hamilton, former Computer Science, Lecturer said.

In the next few weeks Turbo10 will be connecting up new engines. The submission form can be found at: http://searcher.turbo10.com/cgi-bin/addsearchengine.cgi.

In addition to 'Add Search Engine' functionality, Turbo10 has significantly reduced browsing time by taking the scroll bar out of searching and replacing it with a Search-o-Meter: a unique search tool that enables users to move quickly through the 10 results per page.

Turbo10 automatically groups results into similar topic areas or 'clusters.' Enabling searchers to quickly 'home in' on a relevant topic cluster and find a result quicker. For example, if you search on 'salsa', Turbo10's algorithm identifies 'dancing' and 'recipes' as two distinct topics.

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