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Search Cloudlet Adds Functionality to Google Search Results
We’ve reviewed a bunch of search plugins including SurfCanyon. A new search plugin for Firefox launched this week named Search Cloudlet. The Ukraine-based company is attempting to create a better way to search Google by adding a variety of functionality to the Google search results.
The main functionality of Search Cloudlet is to offer a variety of "clouds" that allow you to refine search results. The main cloud is a traditional tag cloud — the system takes the words on the Google results page and shows you a tag cloud. Clicking a word in the cloud reduces the results to those with the specified word. You can also select clouds based on site.
What’s interesting about Search Cloudlet is that their functionality works for the Google Blogsearch and the Google News search.
As with all plugins, and especially search plugins, the key is whether Search Cloudlet can gain enough traction and a userbase to gain momentum to grow.
[...] reviewed Search Cloudlet also late last year and the service provides a way to refine a search query by clicking on words in [...]
That’s pretty cool. I’ll try it out. Although tag clouds after you get use to them, seem to fade into the back of ones consciousness like the sticky notes on the fridge. Then it’s just page clutter that no longer registers with the busy seeking mind!