Customized searches of the near future

by webbythoughts on November 2, 2006

Little things keep popping up on the internet that have the possibility of making the internet a much better community experience. I don’t mean things like Myspace and Facebook that have their own potential and drawbacks.

I mean little things like the Google Coop Custom Search Engine. This lets you use the Google search on your website and limit the sites you want Google to search when people enter their search phrase. Very niche. Very cool.

Then just a few minutes ago, a link from Scoble pointed me to this post on the Snipperoo blog. He used Scoble’s OPML to create a Google custom search box for all the feeds that Scoble subscribes to. That is a pretty good concept, but I think the list is static. So when Scoble adds or removes somebody,
the Snipperoo search box will be out of date.

Now if we could just get Google to let us use OPML as more of a dynamic pointer to a dynamic list to build the search engine filter, we would really be onto something.

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