I did not know about this before I read about it on Google System blog. It’s a very nice decent blog, heavily focused on Google by the way. I thought you may not notice that from the blog name so I told you(!). Anyhow, the article goes through SearchMash.com. A new experimental Google powered search site. What is unique about it is how easy it is to search different types of content. If you search for CAR for example, you would get the web results for that, and on the right side are expandable dynamic menus to browse results for Images, Video (with play option on same page), blogs and Wikipedia. You can give your feedback on every category according to the search results, so it’s building it’s knowledge based on customer satisfaction. To browse for more results, you simply click More Results at the bottom of the page, and new results will pop under right away. This is really cool, but could get bad if your browser is heavily loaded.

I am not sure what the goal of this project exactly is. Is it to gather customer feedback, candidate replacement for the current Google interface, or become a separate search engine for the people with such taste. I don’t know about you, but I would still miss the old interface and I can’t imagine they might take it out, even though the new one is awesome. If we compare it to Live.com, I already like that one more. It is much more faster. There seems to be a slight stability problem with it though. Very often when I search I get the “Oops, an error occurred! Please try again later.” Even when I searched for google. Did you try it? You got results? If yes keep trying several times and you may get it as well. If the search does not return any results also, your search query is not shown so you have no idea what you entered exactly. Not unless you sneak on the anchored data parameters http://www.searchmash.com/search/, which is not trivial ofcourse.

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