Aftervote, a webmaster’s search engine

When someone speaks of a search engine, our mind immediately flies to some of the big names, like Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask.com. Yes, they get you good results if you’re just a normal web surfer, but if you happen to be an experienced web developer you will want something more. Imagine getting multiple ratings and number of votes on social bookmark sites, while allowing groups and friends, and you’ll get what’s Aftervote all about: a webmaster’s search engine.

Searching "mike’s quarter" on Aftervote

Aftervote is not an ordinary search engine. It pulls results from Google, MSN and Yahoo, thus having a big number of crawled pages, and proides some additional details about the results, like Alexa ranking, Google PR, number or Diggs or Stumbles and many others. And unlike other services that provide similar results, this Ajax backbones site get them pretty fast. Of course, it’s a little slower than an ordinary search engine, but it provides much more complex results…

A controverted part of Aftervote is its search results voting system. Like other voting systems used on Digg or Reddit for example, this one allows you to promote/demote search results, in order to make future searches more suited to your tastes. Theoretically, if you use Aftervote for a long time, the idea should make sense, but are you willing to replace your everyday search engine (Google, of course :P) with Aftervote? I guess not…

Aftervote is fully customizable

Aftervote is fully customizable, allowing you to change what info’s to be shown and even has 3 default profiles (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced), for those users too lazy to stick their noses in the settings menu. Firefox users might love it even more, as Aftervote can be added straight to the search bar.

In the end, the conclusion is simple: Aftervote is not even trying compete Google or Yahoo, having a more tight niche of users. But, for web developers and people who want to know more about a site in just seconds, it’s a great tool.

Tags: Aftervote, Google, search engine, webmaster