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Steroids A new site lets you get more out of your favorite search engine. Not often these days do you find something truly different and novel in the crowded space of search engines. And even if you did - would you ever give up using your favorite search engine? Very unlikely. Studies show that users are as faithful to their favorite search engine -- be it Yahoo or Google or whatever -- as they are to their daily newspaper subscription. It takes almost a nuclear explosion to change these preferences. But what if there were a way to dramatically improve what you can do with the engine you love? Take a look at www.qbsearch.com. At first sight it looks like just another metasearch engine: the simple interface lets you select from up to 15 major search engines. But do your first search, and you'll immediately notice that something is very different indeed. On the search result page, in the bottom right corner, you'll see a strange, pulsating cloverleaf button that remains visible even as you scroll down your result page. Mouse over this unusual creature, and a little menu invites you to try out "QuickLinks" mode. QuickLinks, according to a helpful pop-up window, allows you to "pre-collect" the links you like -- click on 8 different news stories from four different search engines, say -- and then view them all at once, combined into a single page. Simply keep scrolling down that long page to view everything you selected. It hands-down beats the traditional routine of "clicking on a link, viewing the page, backpaging, clicking on a link, viewing the page, backpaging . . . " The QuickLinks feature is a remarkable time-saver, especially for searches where you have to look at a lot of results. But it gets even better: Have you ever felt frustrated about how your search engine doles out its results one measly page at a time, forcing you to click on the dreaded "Next 20 Matches" link at the bottom of the page again and again and again? qbSearch ends this hassle as well, letting you combine up to 20 result pages from a single engine into one mega result page. (So even if you want to search with a single engine, not several of them, it makes sense to do it through qbSearch.) Once you use your favorite engine at qbSearch, you may well decide to make qbSearch your starting point for ALL searches from now on. And even if you choose not to use the QuickLinks cloverleaf, qbSearch improves the behavior of traditional Yahoo or Google pages by making each link automatically open into a SEPARATE WINDOW. This way, Yahoo's "result page" does not get replaced -- you can look at the list of hits in one window while reading one of the links you clicked on in another. This feature alone makes qbSearch worth opening on your way to doing any search. More nice touches: qbSearch remembers the engines you selected last time and the number of result pages you like to have combined. And it always places the cursor inside the input box, ready for you to type. Yet another annoying little mouse click saved -- and another little victory for qbSearch. qbSearch was started as part of Quickbrowse.com, the brainchild of hobby programmer and freelance journalist Marc Fest. The South Beach-based 34-year-old was looking for a way to speed up his daily journalist research to "spend more time on the beach". Creating Quickbrowse.com, which combines a user's favorite pages into one fast-to-view Quickbrowse page, reduced his daily browsing time from 2 hours to 20 minutes. Applying the concept of combining pages to search engines seemed like a logical next step. Now Fest runs his own Internet company. "Quickbrowse.com and qbSearch.com are saving users all around the world a lot of time," says Fest. "But in my case, they keep me so busy that I've got no time at all for the beach anymore. Sort of ironic. But I'm still having a great time." qbSearch can be accessed at www.qbsearch.com. ++ The text above may be publicized free of charge. Feel free to edit as needed. About Quickbrowse.com Inc.
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