Chris Pirillo, the legendary tech guru, blogger (c:/pirillo.exe) and pod-caster (Chris Pirillo Show) has gone live with an awesome new meta-search engine named gada.be which really rocks.
Wiki defines meta-search engine "a search engine that sends user requests to several search engines and/or databases and returns the results from each one. They allow users to enter their search criteria only one time and access several search engines simultaneously. Since it is hard to catalog the entire web, the idea is that by searching multiple search engines you are able to search more of the web in less time and do it with only one click". Software such as "Metacrawler" come to mind. It was quite popular before "Google" came to rule the search engine market.
With new search engines and resource bases appearing almost on a weekly basis, metasearch engines are an ever more useful tool. Instead of having to approach Google, its specialized platforms such as Google Blog Search, Technorati or Yahoo Blog Search one at a time, "gada.be" searches in some 100 plus data bases and presents the results fast and clean, separating the results by source.
This can be particularly useful if you want do the search on a slow hand-held device (Treo, PSP or dial-up mobile) with net access where the normal "googling" drives you crazy. With "gada-be" you only have to put in the search term right into the URL (web address). Say you wanted to find a "costa smeralda villa" to rent for your next summer holidays, the URL would read as follows: "http://costa.smeralda.villa.gada.be" (without the ", of course). I have successfully tried it out and was quite happy to have the website for our house in Sardinia - Casa La Maddalena - pop up on the first go. Give it a try!
You can use dashes or dots to separate your words. Dashes imply that you're searching for both of the words (together or apart), whereas a dot implies that you're searching for a term. This way, you can carry the URL with you wherever you go (or link to it) and the results will remain intact. You can even combine them, dashes and dots, in the URL. http://technology-cool.stuff.gada.be/ would yeild results akin to: technology AND "cool stuff". But of course, you can also go to the gada.be webpage and use their search box. You can even subscribe to gada.be results in RSS. Really cool.
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