Searchmash is a search engine owned by Google which searches the web, images, blogs, Google Video videos and the Wikipedia. The vast majority of these features are already available on Google; but are scattered around.
Searchmash shows standard web results, images, videos, blog results and Wikipedia results in one page. The site uses a lot of Ajax to do this; and interesting it gives results which differ from Google’s. For example, a search for my name on Searchmash brings up this guy’s IMDB profile before this blog.
They also implement an interesting method of playing Google videos. You hover your mouse over a thumbnail of the video and then click a small play icon; the video then plays with loading another page, through an Ajax interface (see below).
The search engine is very good. It displays results in a light, simple but Web 2.0 page somewhat similar to A9’s.
Have a good new year.
Tags: search, search engine, searchmash, google, web2.0, ajax, web 2, web 2.0, web 2
