Geekblok

Yahoo! Search has a lot of cool features, that really take searching to a next level. Back in the day, when Google came into focus, the clean interface and awesome search results defined the standard for modern search engines. Yahoo!, however, has beaten Google, in my humble opinion, by completely reinventing the search engine.

Google’s search results are not what they’ve used to be. I usually show people the awesome Dutch website zoekmachinetest.nl. It shows you a the results of the major search engines in Dutch in random order so you can see for yourself which one you really like best. Since I couldn’t find an English version of this website, I’ve created one myself: searchenginetest.swal.org. Go check it out!

But let’s look at some of these new features!

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Bookmarking interesting pages with del.icio.us is extremely handy. Not only can you use your bookmarks on any machine that you access, you can also share the bookmarks with your friends and family. Searching can be a bit annoying though.

deliGoo helps you to retrieve the pages you’re looking for, by allowing you to search within the pages itself, rather than just searching by title or tag (or the little description you’ve added). deliGoo describes their service as:

we take the best websites, selected by you and other del.icio.us users,
add a powerful Google search engine and we get a free and easy way to find what we need and exactly where it is!

You basically search the web and restrict the results to only show sites you (or other del.icio.us users) have bookmarked before. Good stuff!

The only downfall is that they want you to install the firefox extension, which is completely unnecessary in my humble opinion. Just go to the search page directly and skip the extension (heck, you can even bookmark that search page in del.icio.us).