Week 7, Post 2.3 MetaEureka Review

Strengths
Simple.
Downloadable Desktop toolbar. (Award Winning)
Handy help section.
Weaknesses
Simple.
Most of the more advanced functions onlyavailablewhen you download the toolbar.
Toolbar is not Mac compliant. Boo!
Search Engines and Directories Searched
from what I can tell, only Google.
Databases
Internet only.
Operators
Default operation
Search operators supported math, boolean
Proximity or exact phrase proximity
Truncation or stemming no
Wildcard no
Other

Case Sensitivity
None.
Stop Words
the usual seem to work.
Advanced Search Function
Only when you download the toolbar.
Limits
Date NO
File type no
Field searching no
Language no
Family filter yes
Domain or site no
Other


Sorting
seems to sort by top Google choices.
Display
Number of hits no
Open in new window or tab same window
Cached pages no
Clustering no
Thumbnails no
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search no
Spell check yes
Sponsored results identified no
Update date no
Other


Help Function
Yes, quite helpful for showing how to properly search.
Special Features
Seems like the only Special Features are with the downloadable toolbar.

This was by far the worst of the 3 I reviewed. It's pretty basic. Unless you download the toolbar. Which is not complant with Mac Users. Which I am.