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You can now get StackOverflow search results as a WebMynd widget with our Firefox and Chrome sidebars: In the v1.1 release we’ve also added more intelligent recommendations: we try to add a good source to our sidebar depending on what you’re searching for. If we’re confident that you’ll like that source we’ll also encourage you [...]


We’ve partnered with Forbes.com to bring you the Capitalist Toolbar for Firefox and pioneer browser-based technologies that will keep the world’s business leaders informed. This first toolbar application brings you important news and commentary from Forbes.com wherever you are on the web. Learn more and install it now. The Capitalist Toolbar notifies you of breaking news [...]


We’ve just released a new version of the WebMynd Search Sidebar for Firefox. This is an exciting release because for the first time you can configure search across any public site to appear in our sidebar widgets on the right-hand side of Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. Here’s an example, showing widgets I configured for [...]


We’ve upgraded the WebMynd Search Sidebar for Chrome. As with our Firefox version, you can now choose from many different sources, including NYTimes.com, Twitter, Digg, Wikipedia, YouTube, VideoSurf, and Amazon, and persist your settings. Please tell us what you think of this update!


First Internet Explorer made browser addons a focus for their v8 release, then Chrome launched their own application gallery. And we’ve seen several startups launch browser based products in the last few weeks: Browsarity (give to charity while you browse), Rapportive (simple CRM on top of Gmail) and then Etacts, having previously launched their ‘personal [...]


Thanks to MySpace opening up their search API, we’ve launched MyGoogle, a version of WebMynd that turbocharges Google for MySpace fanatics (Firefox only for now). To be clear, you don’t need to change how you search… just install, do a search on Google as normal, and that’s how it looks! As well as changing the [...]


For a while now we’ve had a system we’ve used internally to send messages to our users in the search sidebar. We’re able to tweet a link and have it appear in the sponsored section at the top of the sidebar. Some partners such as OneRiot have also used this to get the word out [...]


The ‘Air’ design by Chan Karunamuni has won the RedesignGoogle competition. Chan wins a MacBook Air which will replace his “trusty 2006 Macbook Pro, becoming my mobile satellite for surfing and designing on the go.” We created RedesignGoogle so you could personalize the appearance of the Google search results page. The design hasn’t changed for [...]


We’ve just released version 0.9.2 of our Firefox add-on and it features some major performance improvements, plus a new customizable sharing screen. Switching between the search and sharing sidebars is much faster now, and the sharing sidebar now lets you share links on a wider variety of sites, including Tumblr, Posterous and LinkedIn. We’ve also [...]


Some users have reported that when they open new windows, the window appears blank and the urlbar empy whereas they were expecting them to open with content. For example, when clicking within an internet banking account to view a cheque image, or using right-click Open in New Window. The problem is caused by a bug [...]