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During lunchtime yesterday, bids for Jux2, a meta-search engine for sale on eBay (yes, you read that correctly), jumped from $6,105 to over $25,000. Seven days remain for the auction, and all eyes are on this spare time project selected as 2005's best meta-search engine.

Jux2 was created as a research tool that tracked major search engine overlap, allowing a nice comparison tool of search results, receiving positive reviews from John Battelle and awarded top honors from Search Engine Watch.

Since those top accolades, Jux2 developer Aaref A. Hilaly took the experimental research tool offline (assumedly put back for review purposes) because there wasn't enough time to devote to it.

The search engine is now for sale on eBay, a sale no doubt closely watched. Beginning with a price of one red cent, and with one week left for bidding, Jux2's going rate is sitting at a mere $26, 300.