WebFinder is an easy-to-use Internet program that allows you to search the web more broadly and more efficiently. By grouping multiple search engines to-geather into 'Search Sets' it allows you to target the engines and web sites which are more suited to whatever you are searching for. The results are stored to file and are viewed in an easy-to-read list which you can filter accordingly.
 

WebFinder is now Free!!
Every application runs its course and the time has come to let WebFinder set with the sun. As I no longer have time to maintain the program I have decided to re-release version 5 as freeware for anyone in the general public still getting by on pre-OS X macs.

 

    Highlights of V5 included:

  • Greatly improved speed and stablity.
  • Easy set-up with assistant.
  • Improved interface with pop-up tools tips.
  • Support for language kits allowing you to set a preferred language for the interface.
  • Full support of Western European languages in the query/result handling.
  • Improved filtering.
  • A page crawler that searches the body text of the pages returned by engines for your keywords, makes a summary with keywords in context and optionally eliminates results lacking relevancy.
  • Better result page formatting makes reading more pleasant and post processing easier.
  • Extra scripting commands to easily extract data and pass them to other applications for post processing.
  • A simplified plug editor has been added to replace the aging advanced version.
  • Numerous other small enhancements and bug fixes...
 

What use is a search utility?
Have you ever been looking for a topic that's hard to find? Perhaps there are multiple ways of describing what you are looking for and your first search returned thousands of results that contain your keywords but have absolutely nothing to do with what you want. Have you ever ended up jumping from one search engine to another because your favorite one didn't produce any truely useful results. Maybe you like to monitor what articles about an issue get published across multiple news web sites and hop from one to another performing the same search on a regular basis. A utility like WebFinder can help solve these types of time consuming repetitions by doing it for you, combining results togeather and providing various levels of filtering.

 

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