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by Muhammad Ridzuan Mohd Noor Zaidi
Let's know about Beaucoup!. This subject-specific search engine that contains web directories is started in the winter of 1995-96 as a small page residing on the back end of my personal website. Beaucoup has more than 1,000 listings of search engines, directories and indices across the world, grouped in some 20 categories. It can be viewed in English, Dutch, Spanish, German, Japanese and French. Beaucoup actually is one person who is also known as Webmaster or Teri. He is chief cook, bottle washer, complaint desk, researcher, html less-than-a-guru, accountant, ad exec, and anything else that goes into the site. In fact, it is used to be classified as a directory for some reasons.
Talking about privacy policy, Beaucoup doesn't even collect cookies, though a a couple of its advertisers do. While a great deal of email is received on Beaucoup, even email addresses are considered personal and are not nor will they ever be disclosed to anyone unless for legal purposes beyond the Webmaster's control. In addition, Beaucoup is different because the engines listed on the main site (all but the category "Shopping",they offer up a *lot* of information, not simply lists of commercial products or services). They must also be searchable in that they have either an input engine or an alpha-numeric listing -- anything which allows the user to zero in on pages pertaining to the topic they're researching. Any site which exists out of these parameters is either a mistake (or extremely exceptional.
References:
http://www.beaucoup.com/1about.html
http://www.gmi.org/research/search.htm
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