Adaptive Path partnered with Mozilla Labs produced a video of a concept browser model called Aurora. It’s a part of Mozilla Labs’ browser concept series which is an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of browsing and the web.... Read More

Maybe! Cuil is another search engine which was recently launched. If you are tired of Wikipedia always being first in Google’s search results, then this might be the search engine that you are looking for. It is said to index 120 billion web pages and promises to return better results than Google.... Read More

Search engine aggregators and popping out everywhere. There are Eco Friendly search engines, search engines that pay users for just using the service, button based search engines and a lot more. There is this one search engine aggregator called SamFind which lets you customize the look and feel of the search engine and even the search results.... Read More

Scour is many things. It’s a search engine aggregator which displays search results from different and popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. It’s also a social networking site where users are allowed to rate give comments to the search results. Think of it as a Digg style search engine. Lastly, Scour is also a web service that rewards its users for using the service.... Read More

Looking for a PDF file? Try Data-Sheet. It’s a PDF search engine which is also powered by Google. What it does is filter the search results and only display PDF’s. This is a useful tool that you can use if you are specifically searching for PDF’s.... Read More

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Yesterday, social news agrregator reddit just announced that they are going open source.... Read More

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Goldminer is a search engine that indexes and provides instant access to Radiology images published in select radiology journals. The ARRS Goldminer understands medical vocabulary. It recognizes medical abbreviations, synonyms and kinds of diseases. It uses techniques from the U.S. National Library of Medicine to discover medical concepts in free-text figure captions and utilizes that information to quickly retrieve relevant images.... Read More

Yes! Firefox is planning to break the Guinness World Record for the “Most Software Downloads in 24 Hours“. I don’t really know if such a record exists but Firefox plans to break it anyway. Since Firefox is already a popular browser choice of many, this is quite a great marketing strategy to create buzz and promote the release of their newest browser version Firefox 3 and getting more users in return. Firefox is known to involve it’s users in the development of its browser and even in the release campaign. If I remember it correctly, they used a different approach when they released Firefox 2. It goes something like if you get a friend to download Firefox, your message to that friend will be included in the Firefox 2 Code or something like that. Maybe that caused Firefox to become such a memory hog in the first place ( just kidding).... Read More