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seoparty42
10-14-2006, 04:39 AM
Last year, there was some noise made about developing vertical search engines i.e. search engines that search niches like IT, health, business.

See articles:
www.gigaom.com/2005/03/16/3554/
www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3526391

More than a year on, there didn't seem to be much further development in this area until i heard that Reed were developing a search called ZIBB for the UK market - www.zibb.com/

Is this a dumb thing to do or one of a number of so-called vertical searches that are on their way?

Cheers