Ansearch is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 company. Their main product is a search engine

Search engine

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

. The search engine Ansearch.com.au (formerly Mysearch.com.au) was launched in early December 2004.

Key Distinguishing Features

Some of Ansearch’s distinguishing features include:

• Smaller footprint of Internet sites to increase quality of content;
• Profiling of entire websites rather than individual pages;
• Popularity-driven rankings as opposed to site submissions or spider crawling;
• Real-time update of websites into Ansearch database to assure freshness of information delivered;
• Top 100 listings of websites and top ranking keywords

Spam Free Searches

The Ansearch.com.au search engines main point of difference with its competitors is to deliver spam free search. In this, the engine only returns domain names/home pages in the search engine results pages if the websites are available in the database, providing cleaner listings/results. The site also does not accept search submissions, making it free of search engine spam for the main categorised results.

Directory

Ansearch's directory is a combination of human edited and automation. Websites that appear in the Directory are added based on website popularity, which is measured across all Ansearch owned search brands.

Popularity Search/Demographic Search

Ansearch.com.au provides a popularity search feature. Sites in the search engine are ranked based on popularity and also ranked based on use by gender and age. The site allows the web user to search for data based on their gender and age.

World sites

Ansearch.com, Ansearch.co.uk and Ansearch.co.nz -All search engines are currently running in 'learning' mode and will launch in early 2007.

Other owned search engines

Ansearch.com.au also own the search engines Anzwers.com.au and Mysearch.com.au. Anzwers.com.au formally owned by Ozemail

OzEmail

OzEmail was a major Internet service provider in Australia, until it was acquired by the iiNet ISP on February 28, 2005.-History:In the early 1980s, Sean Howard was the editor of the Australian Personal Computer magazine and was running a small electronic mail service called Microtex...

 was acquired by Ansearch Ltd in March 2006 and is one of Australia's oldest search engines, being launched in 1996. Mysearch.com.au was launched in 1997 and was previously owned by startup.com.au.

External links

• Ansearch USA - US search engine and directory.
• Ansearch Australia - Australian search engine and directory.
• Ansearch UK - UK search engine and directory.
• Ansearch NZ - NZ search engine and directory.
• Ansearch Ltd - Listed ASX Company that owns Ansearch.com.au.
• Anzwers.com.au - Anzwers.com.au search engine.
• Mysearch.com.au - Mysearch Australia.