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Enhanced image search

We’ve been at work to improve our search engine; one of the enhancements we’re most proud of is the new image full preview mode for the image search.

If you click on an image, a full screen view of the source image will appear. If that image is larger than your browser size, just hover your mouse cursor over it and magnifying glass will show you the full detail. We’ll probably extend this feature to the Flickr search engine too.

Thanks for using Nibbo!

Nibbo 2.0

So, you haven’t heard from us for a while, but that doesn’t mean we’re not around; we just released a large update to Nibbo!

So, what has changed?

• The results page layout is now “liquid”; it will adapt to the size of your screen.
• Added cache link and preview option to web, wiki and custom search engines.
• Additional results will load in the same page, so pagination has been removed.
• Fast history navigation for browsers that support it (Firefox, Opera and Safari).
• Site icons (“favicons”) shown next to search results.

We hope you like it!

New feature: eBay engine

We just uploaded a new search engine for Nibbo: eBay auctions! It will show information like the current price, bids, remaining time… We’ll be including another search engine in the next few days, and soon enough we hope to offer support for themes.

Enjoy!

User interface tweaks

During the past few days we’ve been adding a few tweaks on the user interface:

• The previews and options columns in the search results screen will now follow the scroll. As this can be distracting for some people, a new option has been added to disable this behavior.
• Added a “See more” link to the previews panels and tooltips, which will set that search type as the main one.

We hope you like the changes! Feel free to comment about them or drop us a line.

Improvements in existing search plugins

We’re happy to announce that the Digg, Yahoo! Answers and Twitter search plugins now have the ability to show multiple pages of results.

The Twitter search has also been improved to “understand” links, users and tags in the tweets content.

We expect to add a new search type this week!

New features!

During the past few days we’ve been working on several improvements for Nibbo:

• Regular tooltips will not disappear when taking the mouse cursor on them.
• “More information” option for Flickr search results.
• “Preview search” mode for related searches.
• Refinements work again for Wikipedia search.

… and we added a new search engine type: feeds. This type is useful to discover new RSS/Atom feeds related to your searches, which can then be added to any feed reader.

Enjoy!

New feature: other engines

We just implemented a new feature: “other engines”. There’s a new button in the previews column named “Other Engines”, which provides access to all the engines that have not been added. Click on the desired search type, and it will open as the main search without any need to change the configuration; an “add” button will be present, so just click there to add that search to your engine list.

Also, two additional options have been added to hide the “Other Engines” and/or “Customize Previews” buttons.

We’re still working on the manual, so we hope to have it online in a few days.

New feature: popular searches

Yesterday we spiced up Nibbo’s home page by showing the current most popular searches in the Web. The information is obtained from Google Trends, and is updated every hour; just click on the topic, and the search will start automatically.

We’re currently working on the manual, which we hope to make available soon. After that, we’ve some nice new features on our to-do list to develop