Anybody else tried the Hakia beta search engine?

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Apr 08, 2007

They seem to really like DG - searches for plants and gardening stuff tend to bring up lots of results from here ;o)

http://www.hakia.com/

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Yuska San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b) Apr 08, 2007

Thanks for pointing this out, Terry...looks promising.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Apr 08, 2007

Interesting. I like the clean look of it.

What I particularly found interesting was how it determined what to show me for search results. I did a search for a particular iris cultivar and it brought up a DG listing of the entire Iridaceae family http://davesgarden.com/pf/b/Iridaceae/none/none/cultivar/0/ and another listing of the entire Iris genus http://davesgarden.com/pf/b/none/Iris/none/cultivar/0/ .

It did not give me a hit directly to the particular cultivar I was looking for.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Apr 08, 2007

If you look at one of the links above, and then look at the plants, there's a rating column with a number and then sometimes a pair of eyes. What's does that mean? Is it a DG thing or a search engine thing?

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threegardeners North Augusta, ON Apr 08, 2007

lol...they are the cutest little eyes...I've never noticed them here on DG....I hope they are DG's...

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Apr 08, 2007

I've seen those eyes somewhere on DG before, but not used in this way. I can't remember where I've seen them either.

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Apr 08, 2007

The eyes are used to indicate the plant is available from a PlantScout vendor ;o)

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threegardeners North Augusta, ON Apr 08, 2007

cooooool I looked and yep...there they are....right at the top ......haven't seen things listed like they are in the link though...I like it that way....

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Apr 08, 2007

Aha! That's it! I knew I'd seen those eyes before. :)

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