TopicCrunch

TopicCrunch is a search engine and search engine optimization tool for Web users and especially for market researchers and Web designers.

Features and capabilities include:

- Duplicate-free listing of domains of companies in your line of business

- Check your own Web site's position on three main search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live) for your keywords

- Keep tabs on your competitors' positions for the same (or other) keyword sets

- Background processing

- Pull out results in a hyperlinked Web page

- Choose the sequence for the results: Domain name, best hit or average rank

- Analyze the results in a spreadsheet

- "OR" facility that lets you search on up to four variations of your search phrase or keyword (good for plurals and common mis-spellings)

- "Fast" or "detailed" modes for single-domain checks

- Search-engine-friendly sleep periods

- Choose how deep you want to dig, down to the search engine maximum of 1,000 hits. In fact because of the 4 search phrases, it can often let you go deeper than 1000 hits in a single TopicCrunch run

- Available in basic and Pro versions