When a user invokes a search, the search engine searches its database for matches. The sites that match the search query are displayed as search results. In doing this, the search engine concentrates on matching the query instead of the topic under which the user is looking for information. Several times the text given as examples is returned as search results only because it matches with the query. Decipho is a search engine that allows you to circumvent this problem and obtain results from a single topic/subject.

Decipho offers several features which helps in subject-specific search. Some of them are ‘My results’, ‘Search by Category’, ‘Social meter’, ‘Keywords rankings’ and ‘Icons next to results’.

My Results

When you perform a search, you can rank websites according to your choice. Next time, when you perform another search and one of these sites appear in the results, Decipho will put them to the top right side of the page irrespective of its ranking in the results. You have to register for free to use this feature.

Search by Category

This is the most important feature of Decipho which lets you search in a particular category and ignore results from other categories. This is very beneficial when the search is highly category-specific. Some of the available categories are 'Statistics online', 'Research/info', 'Glossary of statistics', 'Stats', 'Shop/services' and 'Math statistics'.

Social Meter

This feature of Decipho lets you choose websites that have ranking equal to or greater than the one specified by you. The sites are ranked by users and hence helps return results popular among net users.

Keywords Rankings

It appears as links next to every search result that breaks down user-votes by categories for each keyword that a site is ranked under and displays them as percentages.

Icons next to results

The icons indicate the breakdown of categories and let users know what category the search result best falls under according to other users.

References : Decipho, See how Decipho works
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