Search Engine for iPod Information and Items

All the cool kids have iPods these days, it seems. If you're a cool kid or want to be a cool kid, check out the new search engine for iPods, FINDiPod.com ( http://www.findipod.com/ ) Looks like it's a meta-search engine tooled for the iPod.

While there are pointers to a variety of products and searches on the front page, there's a search too -- at the top of the page. You search by keyword, whether you want to run a "deep" or "fast" search, and what "channel" you want to search. channels include iPod, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iTunes, and the usual variety of acoutrements (cables, software, cases, headphones, etc.)

I left the search on deep, turned the channel to iPods, and searched for "ogg vorbis". (Ogg vorbis is a type of audio encoding.) I got 205 results, which included title, snippet, URL, search engine the result came from, quick view (which opens up the page under the search result listing) and a link to open the page in a new window.

Relevance was good at the top of the results, catching discussions about Ogg Vorbis compatibility with iPod and technical issues. At the bottom of the page of 20 results, not so good, with reviews of the Rio Karma and an article called "An Introduction to Compressed Audio with Ogg Vorbis." Still, the beginning results were useful enough that I'd experiment with this search engine a bit more.

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