Mary Ellen Bates on Goggle’s SearchMash beta
Mary Ellen Bates writes about the new Goggle SearchMash interface which organizes results in a fresh, intuitive manner.
I think SearchMash is a “wow!”.
[15 May 2007: posting title and text now Searchmash, not Searchmesh]
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Recently, Google rolled a new user interface test bed, SearchMash [http://www.searchmash.com], and it is worth checking out. You won’t see the Google brand anywhere on the front page or the search results, but rest assured that, under the hood, the Google engine is purring.
You have almost all the search functionality of the regular Google web search; phrase searching works, as do the usual Boolean operators, and format and field limiters, although there is no advanced search page on SearchMash. And don’t look for any sponsored links; there is no advertising on this beta search site.
But what sets it apart is the search results page. For starters, SearchMash sorts the results into web pages, images, blogs, videos, and Wikipedia entries, all on one screen.