First Metasearch Engine Powered by RSS Debuts

The first metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday.
Gada.be strips away the multiple layers necessary to search, which is particularly painful for those attempting to visit a Web site over a mobile device. Instead of plugging in a URL for a search engine, then visiting each page in search results, visitors can merely type in their search term as a subdomain with 'gada.be' at the end.

What results is a savable, transportable URL whose results are constantly refreshed, as the search results are returned in RSS feeds. Read more...

New Features at AOL Search

AOL continues to improve its web search capabilities, today adding a number of new features designed to appeal to casual searchers and power users alike.

Spotted in preview last week by our hawk-eyed news editor Gary Price, the new tools are live today at search.aol.com. AOL says the new features are the result of extensive consumer research and testing.

AOL Search is powered by Google, but offers many features not found on Google, and other features implemented in different ways. If you're a Google fan, it's worth checking out how AOL differs even though it uses essentially the same underlying index of web pages. Continue...