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With Targ8.com you can now customize your search engine. You can select google, bing, yahoo, ask etc for your web search, but also have a different favourite for your images, video, audio, maps site. Its like a search engine mash-up to your own needs or like creating your own search engine homepage.

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A few replies note the results looked and behaved like a straight Google search. Before drawing conclusions, run a few quick checks so you know whether the homepage is actually aggregating engines or simply forwarding/proxying one provider.

  1. Watch the address bar and a result link. After a search, inspect the results page URL and one or two result links (right‑click -> Copy link address). If the host in those URLs belongs to a single search engine, the query is being sent there.
  2. Use the browser developer tools (F12 -> Network). Trigger a search and filter requests by XHR or the search term; the request host shows which remote service handled the query.
  3. View page source and search for engine names or “powered by” strings, and look for ad/tracking parameters (for example, engine-specific tracking tokens).
  4. Compare with direct searches: run an uncommon, long phrase or a site: query in the homepage and then run the same phrase directly on a few engines. Differences will make aggregation obvious.
  5. If ad volume looks higher, note whether clicks first go through a redirect (short intermediate URL) — wrappers often insert extra ad wrappers or affiliate redirects.

If the checks show a single engine is handling searches, consider alternatives: use the browser’s built‑in search engine shortcuts, make a simple local/start-page with separate search forms that target the engines you want, or use a reputable start-page service that documents which APIs it uses. Always review privacy and terms: third‑party wrappers can add tracking and extra ads even while returning the same core results. For readers who want to try the site, run the diagnostics above before relying on it for privacy or unbiased aggregation.

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Member Avatar for canadafred

Well, Ilike investigating stuff before I come up with an opinion and I checked Targ8 out. I never seen anything Yahoo or Ask, anywhere and the only thing that was Bing was image search.

I was expecting a multi-search result (like the old Mamma.com) kind of thing but all I received were Google results.

In essence, my experience was as if I was searching directly in Google except there were more Google ads than in Google.

What am I missing?

Member Avatar for lincylucy

Mee to have the same feeling....

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Member Avatar for BlackhatSEO

This seems really interesting, i want to try it.

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