From 3D-Scape Limited, the leaders in 3D mindmappingTopicCrunch is a tool for a special type of web searching: - It does a search on the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN);
- it lists the unique domains only of the hits (in one of three possible sequences) after crunching the results to eliminate all duplicate entries;
- it provides an easy to use "OR" facility that lets you search on up to four variations of your search phrase or keyword to allow for plurals and common mis-spellings;
- it can tell you the rank of a specified domain for the given phrases on these three search engines. Rank, in this context, means the highest position achieved by the domain when any of the four phrases is typed in by someone using the search engines. (It does not mean Google Page Rank).
So what's it for? It lets you dig deep without having to manually submit many search requests and wade through pages of results. It focuses only on domains. Here's an example of how you might use it. For example? Let's say you were interested in digging deep to know who was in the business of selling golf drivers, or which are the web sites showing cooking recipes, or even how your own web site is doing in the search engines under your chosen keywords, TopicCrunch can work quietly in the background and tell you. At one time, Google had 467,000 entries under "golf drivers" (quotes included), Yahoo had 331,000 and MSN had 75,108. Of course there are thousands of duplicates (entries on the same sites) there. Similar checks for "cooking recipes" yield 4,620,000 hits on Google, 5,880,000 on Yahoo and 419,418 on MSN. Not many people go past the second page of a web search, but as the search engines operate today, you can't get to see anything after the 1,000th hit, no matter how long you're prepared to sit and research. Even with 100 hits per page requested you can only click through to the 10th item on the list of numbers at the foot of a Google page – and there's no "Next" link on that page. Here's an example of the results: The result Using TopicCrunch with "golf driver" and "golf drivers" as search term variations and asking for examination of the first 900 hits at one time showed a list of 1,424 unique, clickable domains from Google, Yahoo! or MSN.
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