Take control of your searching with the WebMynd browser extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer
WebMynd helps you to find, and keep track of, information from sources you value most by personalizing the right-hand side of Google, Yahoo! and Live Search results pages. We’re launching a number of new features today – you can see a demo and download the latest version from webmynd.com.
Embed the sources you most value onto Google and other search engines
WebMynd gets you to the information you need faster by letting you search multiple sources at once, and without needing to change your usual search engine. It also helps you filter the mass of information that is presented to you on a search engine, by grouping the search results by source – you usually know which sources you trust the most to give you the information you want for a particular type of search.
WebMynd now handles over 350K searches per day, personalizing the right-hand side of search engines by aggregating results from sources such as YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia and Flickr. Since November this feature has been available on the Google results page for users of our Firefox browser extension. It is now available on Yahoo! and Live Search as well, on both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
You can try it out before you install on our demo page.
Keep track of what you’ve found and share it with friends
Once you have search for and found the information you wanted, the last thing you want to do is search for it again when you next need it. Or look for it amongst hundreds of open tabs. Or have to copy and past a link into an email in order to share it with your friends and colleagues.
WebMynd has always allowed you to full-text search your history right on Google and browse your history as a film reel – like a DVR for the Web. And now WebMynd is launching the Dock – a sidebar that shows your recent history as a list and enables you to share the webpage you are on through email, Twitter, Facebook and other tools. This is the first of several social search and browsing features WebMynd will launch in the coming months.
Publishers, other startups and Mozilla recommend WebMynd as a top search tool
WebMynd is recommended by Mozilla and has built up a following of over 150K monthly users. Other startups and publishers value the opportunity to include their search results as a WebMynd source. A number of them, including Fluther, OneRiot and Hacker News are distributing customized versions of WebMynd which show their results on the right-hand side by default as well as allowing all WebMynd users to add their content. WebMynd has custom versions of its search personalization available for major publishers such as Forbes, LA Times, CNN, Daylife and TechCrunch.
If you’re a publisher and think your users would value being able to access your branding content whenever they search, then please get in touch.
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Great add-on! I’d like to see Yelp or a similar social review service integrated into this app so that user reviews are shown with the search results.
@MiaPet – great idea, we’ll look at adding Yelp or something like it in the near future
Awesome. I might give it a try; hopefully it works in IE8.
I like the new Dock, but I think the bar to open it is a bit big, especially for lower resolutions. Can you make it thinner?
@Ryan – thanks for your feedback! We were discussing a doc which was adjustable width for varying screen sizes, but wanted to put the first version out there and let people use it before iteratively improving it.
We’ll take your suggestion into consideration when planning future versions.
I’m going to second Mia’s request. Would love to have yelp results show up next to my usual google results – i think half my searches or something are for somewhere with an address.