9:12 AM
Wow. I've gotten a lot of great responses to my LazyWeb request, via the comments thread of my post, the thread on LazyWeb, and email.

I've now realized that one should probably ascertain that something doesn't exist before one asks for it to be invented. Which should be doubly true when your request comes with regard to search engines.

But everyone's been very polite about my ignorance, allowing me to spend the weekend playing happily with a bunch of new search tools. I'm going to keep poking at them for a couple days, building up my lists of pros and cons, and then I'll give everyone a roundup early next week.