Ask.com has relaunched its search service with a pack of improvements. Touted as Ask 3D, it integrates results from various media into one page, and does a good job at it. Unfortunately, others are onto it, like Google Universal, Technorati expanding beyond blogs and other third party search engines which are aggregating results. [Continue]

Jimmy Wales – the man behind one of the biggest crowdsourcing experiments – now wants to extend it to search (via TechCrunch). Mr Wales aims to exploit the same network of followers and the same type of free software to create his search engine. “Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,” Mr Wales said. [Continue]

I stumbled upon MetaGlossary today. The usual search interface did not evoke any special reaction from me, or in other words, I did not feel interested a lot. The only difference was this statement just above the search box Find meaning, not just links. [Continue]