Eurexter’s free custom search engines — the swickis — are out of beta. Swickis are social search technology: As visitors search, vote and click, your swicki generates more relevant results and turns into a valuable asset for you and your community.

Swickis are now more social than ever:

• All swickis have an RSS feeds.
• When visitors search your swicki, they can rate the search results.
• There’s an option for visitors to “grab” your swicky and embed it on their own site, iGoogle and more.
• If your site has a Blogroll, those sites will automatically be favored in your results.
• Möbius: Automatically surfaces new and interesting content into the buzzcloud, keeping the swicki relevant and fresh.

Pandia has a search engine news swicki. We use it to enrich our Search Engine Detective page, where you can search search engine blogs and sites in many ways.

Our search engine news swicki is also a widget at Widgetbox.

You might also want to check out Eurexter’s directory of swickis.

 

Pandia this week

New German version of the Sproose search engine
Web 2.0 search engine Sproose adds a German language version.
Click here to read more.

Clicksor launches new forum for webmasters and advertisers
Online advertising company Clicksor has launched a new online discussion forum for advertisers, webmasters and consumers called 900B.com.
Click here to read more.

Charity Search Engines
Christmas is a time for giving, and not just to friends and family. The spirit of Christmas inspires us to give a little extra, especially to those who need it most.
Click here to read more.

Quintura becomes Alternative Search Engine of the Year
Quintura wins AltSearchEngine’s Alternative Search Engine of the Year award.
Click here to read more.

 

Recommended reading from this week

Using Paid Search For Branding
"I see your ads all the time and thought I’d stop by and see your products." (Search Engine Guide Dec 6 2007)

Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google
There will be only 2 total urls from a domain in any set of search results, so no more getting 3, 4 or however many spots via subdomains (Search Engine Land Dec 7 2007)

Google Shows Apple Some Love with New ‘Mac Developer Playground’
A place where Google Engineers can showcase their Mac-oriented projects. (Search Engine Journal Dec 7 2007)

A Three-Part Primer on Search Spam
What you don't know most certainly can hurt you when it comes to search spam (Mike Moran Dec 7 2007)

Webmaster World PubCon Las Vegas Dec 2007 Full Coverage!
Here is the complete list of postings, images, videos ad fun stuff from around the world! (PageTraffic Blog Dec 8 2007)

Gmail mistakenly shuts down user accounts - including mine!
After disabling Gmail accounts for suspected spam, Google actually ended up disabling the accounts of innocent users (Google Tutor Dec 7 2007)

How Google helped solve canoeist mystery
As journalists and detectives across the world struggled to unravel the mystery of the "back-from-the-dead" canoeist, a single mother with a computer and an inquiring mind beat them to it. (Telegraph.co.uk Dec 7 2007)

Top 7 ways for how to check your backlinks
Forcer at Digital Point forums lists them all (Dec 9 2007)

PicSearch : Intuitive Relevant Image Search Engine
PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google’s and Yahoo’s image search service, with a database of more than 1.7 billion images. (Search Engine Journal Dec 8 2007)

Wikia looking to topple Google, but will fail miserably
Barring a barrage of unprecedented viral marketing campaigns, Wikia is doomed. (ZD Dec 8 2007)

'Zombie' exploits cached by search engines
The caches of major search engines are still providing a safe hiding place for malicious code, a security company has revealed (CW Dec 8 2007)

Google Starts to Index Images Uploaded to Blogger
Until this month, all the images were prevented from being indexed by search engines for unknown reasons. (Google OS Dec 8 2007)

iTunes Podcast Search: ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Oh, iTunes Podcast Search, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways (Tara gets its off her chest Dec 8 2007)

Google Says: Max 2 Results per Search per Page for any site
There will only 2 results per page for a given site even if you have more it at least will not show up in the first page. (TechnoSpot undated 2007)

Million Book Project Explodes a Milestone
The Million Book Project, a university-led initiative to digitize books and make them available online has digitized over 1.5 million books (Researchbuzz Dec 5 2007)

Technorati Relaunches To Focus On Core Blogging Audience
The recently changed home page, just three months old, is gone. In place of the streaming blog posts is a news aggregator (TechCrunch Dec 4 2007)

Google integrates AIM into Gmail
Users will be able to connect to AIM through a drop-down menu on the Gmail site. (InfoWorld Dec 4 2007)

iPhone tops list of 2007 Google searches
Four social networking sites made the top 10, including Webkinz, which grabbed the No. 2 slot. (Reuters Dec 4 2007)

Search Conference Coverage 2007: SES Chicago Day Two & PubCon Vegas Day One
Search Engine Land gives us links to online search engine conference coverage (Dec 4 2007)

Google Launches New iPhone Interface
Here are some pictures of the new interface from my iPhone (Barry Schwartz Dec 5 2007)

Link Baiting - 96 Different Strategies: PubCon Las Vegas Dec 2007, Day 1
Did you know that there are 12 types of links? Moreover, there are eight types of link bait to get those 12 types of links? (PageTraffic Dec 5 2007)

Top Trends in Search in 2007
Interesting trends that might tell us a bit more about how people are using search and what it says about society overall in 2007. (Yahoo! Search Blog Dec 2 2007)

Experiment with Google’s alternate search views
Mark O'Neill takes a look at Google Labs (Google Tutor Dec 2 2007)

22 Yummy Mixx Tidbits - It’s Time to Mixx Things Up!!
If you need some Facts and Information about the Mixx social site check out these 22 Posts (Socialdesire.com Nov 30 2007)

Sphinn discussion on Matt Cutts recent posts on paid links
Why cannot Google sort out lousy content without banning paid links? Discuss! (Sphinn Dec 2 onwards 2007)