Along with killing Lively and axing SearchWiki, it appears Google has also pulled the plug on SearchMash.
SearchMash was an experimental, non-branded search engine that Google used to play around with new search methodoligies.  It debuted in October 2006 and was released to the public exactly one year after. Some people actually traded in Google Search [...]

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Just like that, Google SearchWiki has vanished from many accounts, according to TechCrunch and several users that we’ve heard from.
I was not a big fan of it anyway, but I’m surprised to see it vanish so quickly.
User reactions were mixed but there were several reports of comments such as, “this is lame”…and there was no [...]

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I was surprised to head over to Google today and see on their blog that they have released Google SearchWiki.  Why?  Well, I really like Google’s Search product, as is.  In fact, I just switched over from Yahoo to Google about a year ago.
The switch could be interesting anyway.  As Google states:
“Today we’re launching SearchWiki, [...]

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