Ever wish you could search YouTube, Google, Digg, Windows Live News, Flickr, and abut a dozen other news sources simultaneously? Addict-o-matic is a new search engine that does just that. And so naturally the first thing we did was search for our names, and the names of everyone we know.
The service does a pretty good job of pulling up the latest blog entries and YouTube videos for a given topic. But to be honest, there's just way too much information on the page to consider using Addict-o-matic for much more than ego surfing. If you actually wanted to get the latest news on the presidential primaries, for example, you'd be assaulted by a ton of headlines in separate boxes -- and many of those headlines would be repeats of articles you could find in other boxes on the page.
[via Digital Inspiration]
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5-07-2008 @ 2:31PM
dave pell said...
Brad,
thanks for checking out my new site addictomatic. I totally agree that for some searches, having all the boxes of results can be overdoing it. When you want to track something like the presidential primaries, you can re-arrange the results boxes, delete the ones you don't care about and bookmark the page with that saved state. So for an ego search, you probably want it all. For a search of Obama, you might only want mainstream video, top news and top bloggers. So you arrange the page that way, bookmark it and come back when you need a fix.
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