Next time you head to Wikipedia to search for anything, stop and redirect yourself to Qwika. This new search engine indexes 1158 wikis in 12 languages and has 21,964,380 articles in its index. Most of the search results you will find are from Wikipedia’s various language editions and Wikia pages, but it is definitely a time saver, if you are the wiki researcher types.

There is also a IE and Firefox toolbar that allows topic search, keyword search, and even unlikely features like pop-up blocker, search highlight, and site ranking displays.

So now we have Qwika for search on search on wikis, Twing for search on internet forums, Truveo and Blinkx for video and audio search, and Pipl for people search, besides the omnipresent Google. Good for researchers.

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