A search tool for the web, but with advanced indexing and meta searching through the use of Latent Semantic Analysis.

Pros: iMetaSearch at its heart is a search tool. You type in a keyword or a keyword phrase and you get a bunch of results (maybe in the thousands). However, where it really scores is in what happens once the search is conducted and completed. That is, in the presentation of the search results. Here, advanced indexing and clustering based on Latent Semantic Analysis is used to produce the most useful results, the ones that are likely to be most relevant. Index words are linked to several other related keywords and in this way it is possible to follow a path of information flow to get to what you need. The results are also grouped into hierarchical clusters which further improves this process. Follow-up searches are easily done based on a particular keyword; search results can be exported to and saved in HTML and CSV format files; filtering for particular strings such as names and emails is available; and there is the ability to import and build search engines.

Cons: The interface couldn’t really be any worse. Although the indexing and clustering really help to improve the overall search efficiency (you are more likely to get the result that you are after), the interface is so poor and so unintuitive that only the hardiest computer enthusiast will find it useful. For the average user information is just not conveyed in a well enough way (and God forbid you want to change something in the search results index) and they will end up not using it. It is definitely not for the average computer user who none-the-less could have derived great benefit from it.

Overall: 3 stars at least. 4 stars possible. It really is very good and the searching followed by indexing and clustering is wonderful. But as it stands with a drab and hard-to-intuitively-understand interface it will only be useful for real computer enthusiasts and not for the average user.