SurfWax is a meta search engine which offers a variety of ways to analyze the results, including FocusWords and SearchSets.  I've added Surfwax.com to OpenSearch: adding searches plugins to Firefox.  They offer different options, like showing the summary or not.

I just got inspired to add another search by newtronic.  I just added Google Books search to Searches for Firefox and IE7.  Google Book search does a full text scan.  I don't have a feeling for how many books they cover.

At OpenSearch:  Add Searches plugins to IE7 and Firefox, I added a search using the Bloglines engine to search for feeds.  I need to investigate more how Bloglines tracks its feeds.

 

 

 

At OpenSearch:  Add Searches plugins to IE7 and Firefox, I added a search using the Feedster engine to search for podcasts.  Something I don’t understand is how Feedster finds the feeds that it searches.  Perhaps it monitors the weblogs.com site or more.  I think it might have its own ping service, but if that’s the case, every blogging service out there would have to ping them.

 

 

 

 

Over at Polarman, he has a post about adding dns and whois to the IE7 search toolbar using OpenSearch: Adding Search to IE7.  Apparently, he uses www.DNSStuff.com and adds various tools from there to the toolbar.  This is a very clever way of adding things that are not at first glance "search' and using the search toolbar to speed up accessing those tools.