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Chris Pirillo and his Lockergnome buddies have launched a new metasearch engine which is getting some buzz in the blogosphere. Gade.be has some pretty unique features, including the ability to conduct and filter searches by editing the domain name. There's also easy access for mobile devices. Michael at TechCrunch is pretty upbeat about the new service:
It’s likely that Gada will become a much-linked to site for definitive results on a term, in a similar way as wikipedia is today. Gada incorporates all relevant information in a permanent URL, and so becomes a comprehensive result set for a tag link. Gada also outputs search results in RSS and OPML, allowing users to easily subscribe to and organize searches.
Personally, I'm not so impressed. While the basic premise is great, the interface needs a lot of work - sites like del.icio.us do a much better job of creating extremely simple but usable (although perhaps not intuitive) interfaces. As a test, I tried turning off Adblock. Holy cow! The Google Ads are everywhere! These ads are badly placed and really get in the way of the results. I'm not opposed to the idea of using text ads, but I think they need to flow more with the current layout. What's more, the site is really slow right now, but I expect that's just because of the massive spike in traffic today.