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Turbo10 is basically a meta-crawler of the deep web. It is a great place to start when doing a research project or for you own information. It searches its own references as well as other search engine to give you sizeable amount of relevant results.
The “Search-o-Meter,” Turbo10 features is very useful. It allows you to quickly flip through all of the results on page by page, and is a visual reference to where you are. It also gives you a “Topic Cluster,” tab which enables you to further narrow your search instantly. The “Engines,” tab allows you to see what it found on other search engines and to narrow your results to that engine alone. The Turbo10 engineers have also placed a string of code that recognizes repeat sites, so you don’t get huge amounts of data on one site like Google or Yahoo gives you. They also give you a small thumbnail of the sites it has shuffled through so you can see the page before you get to it. It is moderated very well, to submit a site to Turbo10 someone will actually go to the site and look at it before it gets added. That keeps junk sites out of its register.
I did find a few drawbacks using Turbo10. While I liked the thumbnail pictures, they were often too small to discern what was really on the page no matter how large your browser window was. They also removed the tool that allowed you to save your favorite pages and engines. I found that incredibly useful when doing repeated research on one topic. It gives results from Wikipedia, a site that most view as a junk information site. What I noticed too was that it generally waited for someone to submit their site before adding it. It did not have a great amount in its own register on any topic I had input. It was giving good information, but I did not like that it relied on so many other search engines.
Turbo10 has some very interesting technology that I believe other search engines should try to implement into their own programming. It is a very practical place to start researching any sort of technical data. Though I had never heard of it before this project, I will be a return user in the future.
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