There is nothing new about searching through classified ads online, for example oodle or the ubiquitous Craigslist. They are not web search engines, they don’t crawl the web. They just search through websites full of ads. People continuously post their ads to their local newspapers, etc., and that’s what keeps the content fresh on sites like these.

Trovit does the same thing, and in fewer categories, just homes, autos, and jobs. You cannot send your ad to trovit, you post it on a local website, and then the trovit spiders come along and pick it up.

The moral of the story is that there are search engines and then there are search engines. What matters is simply knowing what the universe of data is that is being searched. Yesterday the universe was 4,700 numismatic websites, with trovit it is a certain number of classified ad websites, which trovit separates by category and by country.

But the index, as we know, if only half of the story. The interface is always the other half. Trovit has a very clean interface that flows particularly well. You mouseover the country that you want, then you click on the category that you want, and then a homepage for exactly that country and category comes up; that’s when you conduct your search.

Here’s a quick tour:

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First, select your country:

and then select the category: homes, cars, or jobs.

In this case, I have selected jobs in Italy. And here is a result:

Do you live in one of these countries?

Please give trovit a test drive and let us know what you think of it.

So, what does “trovit” mean?

“trovi” is “find” in Esperanto. Add “it,” so trovi+it, trovit means find it!