InstaNav tm bypasses the need to visit a search results page altogether when searching for popular sites on the Internet.
Official Find has developed the patent pending InstaNav tm technology to help users find and navigate to Official Sites with just a few keystrokes.
InstaNav tm instantly searches for Official Sites with each keystroke and presents the results to users in a drop down menu in the actual search box. Once users find the site they're looking for they can just click and go directly to the site. There's no need to go to a search results page first.
InstaNav tm will make searching at Google and other search engines feel old fashioned!
Official Find is a Search Engine that makes it easy to find the Official Web Sites of top
brands and companies. We have the largest database of Official Sites on the net!
Official Find cuts through the clutter of irrelevant Search Spam and Commercial Links by
clearly marking Official Sites for the most popular brands and sites on the web and displaying
them above all other search results.
We also provide general search results from across the entire World Wide Web. So regardless
of what you're looking for Official Find can help you find it!
All Official Sites are compiled and reviewed by our editors. While Official Find does
not accept submissions from web sites we do welcome suggestions of sites that may not yet
be in our database - or requests for specific sites that you may be having trouble locating.
Our criteria for adding sites are fairly simple. We focus primarily on popular commercial
brands and sites that consumers seek out most frequently - and which tend to have the most
Search Spam associated with them.
Search Spam generally comes from small web site owners who try to trick Search Engines into
ranking their site higher in the web search results for their own commercial gain. As a result
the "Official Site' may sometimes be pushed down or off the first page of results.
When we have Official Sites that match your query we'll display them in the Official Sites
module at the top of the page. It's clearly marked with the red, round "Official Sites" logo.
Tips for Using Official Find
We've designed Official Find to return results from our Official Sites database only when
we think a user may be looking for a specific brand, company, product or service.
For instance, if a users types in "Ford Mustang" we'll return the Official Sites for "Ford"
and for the "Ford Mustang". However, if a user just types in "Sports Car" we won't return any
Official Sites from our database because it's not obvious that the user is looking for any
particular brand or specific company.
What are Sponsored Links and Web Results?
Sponsored Links are results from advertisers that are judged by an editor to be relevant
to each specific query. We license these results from a third party (Overture Services, a
division of Yahoo!) and they're reviewed by an editorial staff to ensure relevance. These
results tend to be commercial in nature and are a great place to find sites that sell products
or services related to your search. In some cases Official Sites may advertise in this
section as well.
Web Results are just what they sound like - results from the entire World Wide Web ranked
in order of relevance by a computer algorithm. We license these results from a third party
as well (also Overture Services). Official Sites are often found in this section as well,
but they usually aren't labeled as such.
Where on our pages to look when
- Looking For Official Sites: When you're looking for the Official Site of a company
the "Official Sites" module at the top of the page with the "Official Sites" logo is
the best place to look. If we do not have a match in our database the Web Results
section and then Sponsored Links section are the next best places to look, in that order.
- Shopping for Products or Services: When you're shopping to for a product or service
the Sponsored Links section is often your best bet.
- Seeking Information: The Web Results area is the best place to look for results for
informational searches.