Yauba


Grade: B-

Rationale for Grade: For still being in beta testing, this search engine shows a lot of promise. If they added an advanced search function and support for more operators, along with field searching, this search engine could certainly become one of the top five.

Strengths

• Does not record any of the users' personal information
• "Can actually "understand" the difference between such concepts such as Java the island, Java the coffee and Java the programming language (and much more)"
• Provides a summary at top of page
• Presents results from all databases on one page
• Plays videos in search engine
• Requests feedback
• Visit sites found anonymously
• Provides thumbnails of sites
• Gives number of results from each database

Weaknesses

• In early beta/late alpha release
• Does not support most operators
• Does not support field searching
• No advanced search
• No help except for introductory video
  

Databases

• web
• news
• blogs
• answers
• images
• videos
• social networks
  

Operators

Default operation	AND
Search operators supported	minus
Proximity or exact phrase	exact phrase with quotation marks, no proximity operator
Truncation or stemming	no
Wildcard	no
Other	no

Case Sensitivity

Does not appear to be case sensitive, but in the summary box at the top, both polish and Polish were listed with the option to select from several different meanings

Stop Words

Does not appear to search for usual stop words

Advanced Search Function

none

Limits

Date	no
File type	PDF, Word, PowerPoint
Field searching	no
Language	no
Family filter	yes
Domain or site	yes
Other	lite version

Sorting

Results grouped by different databases with top five of each showing on first results page

Display

Number of hits	yes
Open in new window or tab	yes
Cached pages	no
Clustering	no
Thumbnails	yes
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search	yes
Spell check	no
Sponsored results identified	yes
Update date	no
Other	no

Help Function

Introductory instructional video

Special Features

• Ability to visit sites anonymously from results page
  

Reviewer: Professor Clark