Category: Search software

SurfCanyon is a Firefox plugin that claims mind reading capabilities. Even though there’s no actual magic involved, this nifty little app does a great job of digging though the search results for the hits you need, even though Google buried them on page 12.

Previews is a Firefox addon that provides you with instant previews of links while you browse. Every time I surf the web, I come across links that seem interesting, but turn out to be disappointing. Previews helps me avoid clicking on these links.

PicLens is a Firefox addon that makes image search fun and easy. It is as easy to install as any other Firefox addon. Once you have restarted Firefox, you are good to go. Set out for your favorite image search site. In the search results, an icon will appear in the images. Click it, and the rows of little thumbnails is transformed into a 3D slide show, filling your entire screen.

Quintura is an alternative search engine developed in Russia, based on semantic technology. What really makes Quintura stand apart from the crowd, though, is the way they present search results in Web 2.0 style clouds of related search terms that help you narrow or expand your search simply by clicking your mouse. Now you can use the same technology to spider and search your site or blog — for free. The site search is displayed as a widget sized cloud of search terms that fits nicely in a sidebar.

The Google Android Alliance. It sounds like something out of a Ed Wood science fiction movie, and maybe it is. Google has now announced its plan for the Google Mobile Phone, and it is not a phone at all — at least not yet.

Hakia’s Scoop Bar is a browser toolbar that lets you save excerpts of text on the web pages you find while searching.

Apple tries to get a bite out of the search market by launching a Windows version of the Safari browser.

Google adds recommendation features to the Google Toolbar and Personalized Home Page.