Matt at CTRL, ALT, READ has mentioned us in his post about new search engines to use instead of Google.

http://crowverte.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/searching-for-search-engines/t...

He also identified a competitor of ours in this space, ButtonALL, http://buttonall.com which looks like an interesting take on the theme. It is not yet customizable, but may yet become so one day.

Hopefully Matt will become a samfind user! Thanks for the post.

sam

We have received many emails from users of samfind (and fans!) who find samfind useful and with ideas of how to make it more useful for them. Last night we implemented many of those tips onto the homepage and we think it is much more user friendly now. Some things that we changed include:
-- Making it so the Pop-Up Blocker does not stop to opening of windows, except with Show All in Internet Explorer - we couldn't figure that one out.
-- Making the websites more obviously buttons to give a better idea of what you are supposed to do when you arrive at samfind for the first time.
-- Making it so you can switch topics and maintain the information that you typed in the text box.
-- Making the maps topic easy to switch information in each of the boxes.
-- Created a delete button to delete all of the information in the text box.

Thanks for your great ideas Dustin, Kairi, Euge, Sara, Mich(elle), Christine, Scott and Adam.

sam

Thanks for the post on OrangeInks:

http://www.orangeinks.com/technology/samfind-customizable-search-engine/

We are working on a couple of the issues you have described and will have a new release out in a few days - especially pop-ups.

Thanks for the post!

sam

Thanks for your great post about samfind:

http://www.code4dotnet.com/?p=1308

You rock!

sam

Thanks for the great post:

http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/samfind-com-build-your-own-search-e...

We are working on attracting users - with the help of sites like yours!

Thanks!

Aibek of MakeUseOf has covered samfind on his blog. Take a gander:

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/samfind/

Thanks Aibek!

Charles Knight and Richard MacManus of AltSearchEngines.com have covered samfind:

http://altsearchengines.com/2008/06/30/samfind-making-the-websites-you-u...

Thanks a bunch guys!

A few more updates and we will have our private beta. In the mean time, our Netvibes widget has been accepted is up and running!

samfind does not have a public presence ... yet, but we have launched the Google Gadget:

It is public, but has not been publicized so it may as well not exist because there are so many other gadgets.

More widgets and gadgets on the way!