ResearchBuzz

There are plenty of places that provide you of aggregated lists of what’s being popularly-searched out there on the Internet. SearchQuilt, at http://searchquilt.com/, goes one better by listing what’s being searched for and then gives you a nice one-page meta-search for them.

The front page lists popular searches from places like Yahoo, Google, and AOL. (There’s also a year-end hot searches column.) Every listed search is hyperlinked. Click on an item and you’ll get a full page of search results from various places, including blogs, auctions, products, news, and the Web, of course. I was surprised at how well this worked with even more generic searches (like “Hairspray”.)

Sometimes one of the items on the big search result page would take a little extra time to load, but this is a fun site — plain but extensive. How about adding Icerocket top searches?

Metasearch engine Ixquick, at http://www.ixquick.com/, has announced the addition of video search to its metasearch service. Ixquick has teamed up with Blinx to offer this new facet of their service.

Ixquick’s meta-search therefore now includes Web (of course), images, video, and an international phone directory that allows you to do people, business, and reverse phone lookups.

Zuula, which I covered back in January , has expanded its blog search engine from four blog search engines to nine. The new search engines now available include Sphere, Blogdigger, and Bloglines (yay!)

And in case you forgot, Zuula also has Web, image, news, and job meta-search. It’s still in beta but it’s a nice little search engine.