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E Pluribus Unum: Out of many, one.Pluribus is a search engine that remembers which pages its users like and which they don't like.It then uses that information to return high-quality, filtered results. Out of the opinions of many users, Pluribus constructs one coherent list of results. E Pluribus unum. |
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How exactly does Pluribus rank its results? When a user types a query, Pluribus submits it to Metacrawler, a search engine that combines results from other engines (including Altavista, Excite, Lycos and Yahoo!). Once it has those results from Metacrawler, Pluribus assigns a score to each page. The total score of each page (shown in black next to it) is a combination of:
The following are the newest and most popular queries submitted to Pluribus. Go ahead and give your opinion about which pages are good and which are not. Try selecting some pages and then re-submitting the query; you will see how your pages are now higher in the list. |