Hullabu - A Customizable Meta Search Engine

A good friend of mine recently launched Hullabu, his long awaited baby. The website is actually a meta-search engine just like the "recently launched Leapfish", dogpile, mamma etc; but with an additional feature: It is Customizable. To start off, for beginners a meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Metasearch engines operate on the premise that the Web is too large for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines.

In short, Hullabu is very similar to kayak, with an exception that kayak concentrates entirely on travel, whereas Hullabu gives you the option of customizing your search by using the following variables:
1) It allows you to customise the Category in which your search item falls.
2) It allows you to select the search engines to send your search item feed to, for that particular search category.

The result is narrowing down your search to a particular category on specific search engines, instead of looking for the search items on different websites/engines by opening multiple browser windows. I know this might get a little confusing, but you will get the idea of what I am talking about once you log on to http://www.hullabu.com/. For eg. Before buying any electronic gadget earlier I always use to go to bestbuy, frys, walmart, target etc websites and search for the gadget and look for the best price, and I am sure you would too since you are spending money at the end of the day. What I did was simply create a cateogory called "Electronics", added these websites and now get everything in one click.
Just like any other product, Hullabu also has a learning curve (a very small one though), but once you start using it surely turns into a handy search tool.

I would like to congratulate my friend on his feat, and wish him all the best with Hullabu.

-Ashish

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