Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Firefox search

It has been a while since my last post, but I have been somewhat preoccupied with other things. However, that led me to discover this little gem of inventiveness. (That was not really the word I wanted to use there, but my English is still too limited to allow for the use of nuances and unusual expressions.) What I am talking about is the small box in the top right corner of Firefox. It is by default linked to Google and some other search engines, but you are free to add almost whatever search engines you like. I have currently added Lexin (a Swedish-English dictionary), IMDB, ACM, IEEE, Google Scholar and Wikipedia. The only thing that might have done it even better would be if you could use several different search engines at once and get the results on a single page, but I guess you cannot get everything at once. Good work, Firefox!