Myriad Search was a
metasearch engine developed by Aaron Wall
which offered ad-free search results. Myriad Search allowed users to select search results from
Ask Jeeves
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,
Google
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,
, and
Yahoo
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It was trialled ("in beta") from September 16, 2005,
and in February 2006 Wall made the source code available as
open source
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. He withdrew it altogether in 2009 because it had stopped working with Google.
Myriad Search allowed users to select search depth and place bias on the search results from each of the major search engines.
Searchers could promote engines that were providing results relevant to their query and demote or deselect engines which were providing irrelevant results. Myriad Search also made it easy for searchers to tab through the search results one engine at a time.
See also
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List of search engines
Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases.
By content/topic
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Internet properties established in 2005
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