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diff --git a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Thu/searchmash.txt b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Thu/searchmash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a1792a --- /dev/null +++ b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Thu/searchmash.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[Searchmash][1] is new search engine that appears to have some connection to Google Search. I know what you're thinking, there must be ten thousand search engines out there, and that's not counting all the new implementations of Google's Custom Search tools, do we really need another?
Well, maybe. Searchmash is a bit different, and perhaps better, than most. According the the Lifehacker post by which I discovered it, [Searchmash is run by Google][2], which might explain why it generates almost the exact same results.
At first glance Searchmash isn't much, just a white page with a familiar results listing. But then when you look closer there's a number of features that improve on the basic Google Search concept. For instance you can dynamically collapse and expand the page descriptions and clicking the "more search results" link reveals another nice piece of Javascript which appends the results below the current ones rather than loading a new page. I'm one of those people that rarely delves into the second page of search results, but the ability to append them to current page makes more results somewhat more appealing.
Off the right hand side of the page are a series of collapsed links for images, video, Wikipedia and blog search results. Clicking the plus link opens a panel with the top results in that category. At the bottom of each panel is a link to "see more results," click that link that category becomes the main links for the page and the web pages result is shuffled off and collapsed in the right column.
Essentially Searchmash takes the results of Google's Web Search, Image Search and Blog Search, combines them with a Wikipedia search and video search, gives it an elegantly simple interface and integrates it into a single page. Very nice indeed.
Someone wrote in to the Lifehacker saying:
>(Searchmash) gives you a multi-page search view on one page and the ability to drag (yes drag) the 35th search result to the 3rd slot because you think it's more appropriate to your query.
Personally I can't seem to drag anything to reorder the results. I'm not even sure I'd want to unless there were some way to save the order, but if anyone can enlighten me as to how the drag and drop feature works, I'd at least like to try it.
The main downside to Searchmash is that it doesn't support very many of the advanced Google Search operators that I've come to rely on. Obviously <code>images:</code> works, as do common operators like <code>site:</code>, but more advanced ones like <code>filetype:</code> do not.
Did I mention the searches are lightning fast?
[1]: http://www.searchmash.com/ "Searchmash.com"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/searchmash-google-interface-experiment-218217.php "Lifehacker on Searchmash.com"
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