FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish Stuff

Philipp Lenssen, a Web developer from Germany, has used the Google API to create a search interface called FindForward. The site is at FindForward.com but I'm going to point you to the About page at http://www.findforward.com/about/ since it best explains what the site does.

The site offers a plain query box in conjunction with a pull-down menu. The first item on the pull-down menu is normal search, which presents you with plain Google results with many extras: screen shots of sites, Wayback machine links, even a place to comment on a site. Very nicely done.

But there additional search offerings here as well. If you regularly read ResearchBuzz, you'll be familiar with at least a couple of them, the wildcard search and the directory search. But there are many other offerings here as well. There are options to get your Google search results in RSS or Atom format, options to search blogs only (or to exclude blogs) get images, place information, and so on. There are a lot of searching options here.

Kudos to Philipp for a very nice tool. How about some bookmarklets?

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