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Squadcast 10 - Searching for the future
Can you believe the Squadcast is now on episode 10? Well, we're excited anyway. This week Grant and Christina discuss the future of web search, specifically social search. Christina chats up Jason Calacanis from Mahalo to get the inside scoop on social search and its benefits over traditional methods.
The Squadcast's "The Five" takes a look at five of Download Squad's favorite social search tools and plugins.
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The Five:
Quintura - Quintura is a cloud-based search tool that has a particularly nice search engine aimed at kids.
Mahalo Follow - This Firefox toolbar allows you to submit links to Twitter, Jaiku, Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Pownce, or your Tumblr blog, in addition to keeping up with Mahalo search results.
del.icio.us - Del.icio.us lets you keep your bookmarks in one place, share those bookmarks with friends and browse other bookmarks to find interesting or new links. Yahoo!'s search results now incorporate del.icio.us links.
StumbleUpon - Like the name implies, StumbleUpon helps users stumble upon cool and interesting links and pass those links on to others. The more you use StumbleUpon, the more aware of your search/interest patterns it becomes.
Eurekster - Eurekster is a site for creating and finding swikis - or customized search engine/wiki hybrids that can act as portals for a specific topic or group. Very useful, depending on what you want to do.
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jordan said 3:02PM on 1-24-2008
So far Mahalo has been helpful. Nice to have an option live this.
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GoOrange said 3:25PM on 1-24-2008
I haven't used Mahalo search all that much, but I've been using the plugin and recommending links where appropriate. I need to remember to use the Mahalo search plugin more often instead of going straight to Google.
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