This new alt works on the principle of strength in numbers. Gogimon takes it’s own search engine, adds Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, and puts them all together in one downloadable application with a few surprises in it. It even has a “mind reader,” which tries to guess what web sites you’re really looking for.

But before you download it, here’s a quick video explaining what this thing can do.

How Gogimon works is this. You go to their site, download the application, and type in a search term in a little tool that pops up on your screen. You can see it on the right here. After you do that, you click “Go get it,” and that brings you to the application. Organizationally, the tabs on the top left show Gogimon, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live, where you can switch between them and see what they all have.

Now, back to the mind reader. It looks at what you’re searching for, and presents you with a list of related suggestions that you may want to look at at the bottom of the screen. Another interesting feature they think is pretty cool is the composite search ranker. Gogimon touts this as the “great equalizer.” In their words, let’s say you’re looking for ‘inexpensive eye glasses in Chicago’. The results usually seen in a traditional search will likely leave you with mostly irrelevant responses that don’t lead to ‘inexpensive eye glasses in Chicago’. Maybe that result exists, but it could be buried a few pages deep.

I actually did the Chicago search, and came up with links that were pretty useful. Some links were still irrelevant, but had I actually been looking for cheap glasses, I would have been in OK shape. I didn’t see all that much of a difference with the other tabs, though, which all came out with OK info.

Gogimon also has what is called a Continuously Directed RSS. This feature allows for a continuous search, so when relevant results come along, you get it immediately. It’s like a Google alert, but it’s actually a Gogimon alert.

There were, nonetheless, a few problems with the application. It set me automatically to “working offline” so none of the links actually worked unless I pasted them into my browser. It told me how to stop being offline, but I couldn’t find the button they were telling me to press. Hopefully these will be worked out soon. Even so, at this point the application is free, and they say they’re only offering 1,000 more downloads, so it may be worth it. They give free updates as they improve their software.

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