12 March 2007 | Author: S. Inarejos SEO Consultant

UFO Crawler: the new paranormal search engine

New search engines blossom on the internet almost every week, but the latest search engine to grace the web - UFO Crawler - simply stands out.

The Anomalies Network, in collaboration with IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, has just launched UFO Crawler, the new search tool which scours the web for information on ghosts, UFO sightings, classified files and any unexplained or paranormal experiences.

UFO Crawler combines thousands of documents from The Anomalies Network archive, which contains the world's largest online database of reported UFO sightings, mysteries and case studies - including abductions, UFO crashes worldwide or conspiracy theories.

The Anomalies Network was created as the S4 Database almost ten years ago, with the aim of becoming the largest online Paranormal Community - and it certainly seems they've achieved this goal. Olav Phillips, chief archivist and founder of The Anomalies Network, wanted to encourage the public to make their own minds about inexplicable phenomena by combining global information available on the web and thousands of unique archives from relevant sources.

With a staggering one million page views per month, almost 4,000 registered users, 240,000 posts on 15,000 different topics and a record one billion pages of archived material, the success of the Anomalies Network is truly remarkable.

When asked by bigmouthmedia how UFO Crawler was born, Olav Phillips explained:

"In this day and age we all use Google and, frankly, it is an excellent search engine on a mass scale; but finding specific information can be very difficult and requires fairly complex search queries. So we felt the right answer was to move to a microsearch model where we had a search engine specifically designed to house paranormal / UFO information."

Searching for the unknown is now easier than ever thanks to the integration of the Anomalies Network database and the free enterprise search software IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition - a clear competitor with Google's enterprise search, which is available from $2,000 upwards.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition was launched in December 2006. It's customized and simple to use; but more importantly, the software can be installed in less than three clicks. The tool supports more than 200 file types and 30 languages, with an indexing capability of half a million documents per server.

The arrival of UFO Crawler has received a warm welcome from the Ufology community and it promises to capture the attention of thousands of users.

In recent weeks, alleged UFO sightings appear to be on the increase, with events reported in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the Metropolitan Phoenix area and last week's spaceship video footage shot from Burnley in the UK. UFO Crawler provides an outlet for the burgeoning number of searches made on extraterrestrial activity - and the fledgling search engine certainly looks set to cope with the existing demand for information.

UFO Crawler will undoubtedly fill a gap in the market for searches on UFOs and the paranormal. And whether you're passionate about mysteries, ghosts and extraterrestrial encounters, or are instead a sceptical individual, you're sure to love the extraterrestrial delights the site is bound to uncover from the depths of the interwebs!