Get "Wide" Web-Search Results with Widexplorer

Widexplorer takes an interesting tack on Web searches, presenting results from many popular search engines in a wide, scrolling format. (The above screenshot doesn't do it justice; you have to try it yourself.)

For example, a search for "iPhone" returns a Google pane, a Cuil pane to the right of that, then Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, About.com, and so on. You scroll to the right to see the other panes, then click on any desired search result like you normally would.

Widexplorer also provides "wide" viewing for categories like news, sports, finance, and tech. Unfortunately, you can't customize any of the content, nor can you choose which search engines it should aggregate.

Even so, I really, really like this thing. It reminds me of Searchme, the search engine that returns Cover Flow-style thumbnail results, but it's more practical (if lower on the eye-candy scale). [via Digital Inspiration]