Highena

They seemed to have now settled on the name Aftervote, as apposed to Younanimous, which I think is a much better name. Having just had a little play with this new search engine, I have to say I like it.

Aftervote takes all the listings from Google, Yahoo and MSN, crunches them up and puts the most relevant sites at the top of their listings.

How does this work? I’ll let them explain.

You do a search for “Social Search Engine” and you click the first result. It’s not what you were looking for at all, and is therefore not a useful result for your query. You press the back button and try result #2. Voila! You found exactly what you are looking for. But it’s more than that. AfterVote(Younanimous) is analyzing these results and has cast a vote for you automatically, saying that result #1 wasn’t what you wanted, but #2 was. If you do however find a awesome site, you can manually vote for it as well.

Like Google, they have an image search, and also a video search.

Another cool feature is that they provide information on each site by Alexa ranking, Google pagerank, Compete, domain age and much more.

You can also tweak the search results to your own liking. If you think Alexa is a good stats programme for sites you can have your searches go by Alexa, or Pagerank, or if domain age is more relevant to you, and so on.

Here’s the full list that you can customise into your searches:

Alexa
Page Rank
Stumble Upon
Compete
Digg
del.icio.us
FURL
Reddit
Yahoo! MyWeb
Email result
AIM Message
Yahoo! Msngr
TinyURL
Translate
Whois
Netcraft
bugmenot
Archive.org
Technorati
Blogger Links

You can turn any of these on/off at any time, and they should be adding to them soon.
I often find myself keeping Alexa open in a browser when I’m looking at new sites, so this is a great tool to have.

I hope Aftervote takes off once it gets out of beta, because on paper it looks like a really good idea. Namely, taking all the irrelevant crap out of searches.