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Bubble Bubble!

We've been busy over the last few weeks in Scandoo's labs and today released a major upgrade to the service - one we're really proud of.  It's a new speech bubble.  It's quite a bit different as it should load faster, and look a darn sight clearer.  (We're fans of elegant minimalism here!). We've added some icons to help make it easier to see which content category we've classed the site as. We're still tweaking it, so it might change a little over the next few days.

However, Scandoo isn't just about being pretty. It's quite smart too. (We actually scan every page to deliver our security and content opinions.) Long term this new bubble will mean we can offer you some great new features, such as contextually specific content in the bubble while you surf. The bubble is now tabbed, so we can show this new info, in the same space. 

We've got some ideas as to what we think would be useful content, but we'd love to hear what you'd like to see in the pop-up - what specific information about the site, e.g. has this site been on digg? are there any relevant myspace profiles? what do other sites say about this content?  are there related searches? Drop us a line as a comment or an e-mail - we'd love to hear from you!

Scandoo for Yahoo!

We've now got Scandoo for Yahoo! live on our servers! - have a peek here http://y.s.scandoo.com/search?p=scandoo

Roll Up, Roll Up, Get your Scandoo Toolbar!

It's here! The all new Scandoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer (V6 or higher).

Keep the security and safety of Scandoo close at hand. The toolbar even lets you switch search engines with a click or two.  Like the Scandoo web service, it's a beta, so there will be more features being added in the near future!

Best of all it's free, and available for download now.

Click here to get the Scandoo Toolbar, and don't forget to let us know what you think!

Sneak Peek - Regionalisation

Here's a treat for our Blog readers... we thought we'd give you a sneak peek into something that we've been beavering away on, and is on the verge of being included in our Scandoo beta.   

Regional Support: We've had lots of requests for Scandoo to support regionalised sites such as Google.co.uk instead of Google.com.   Eventually, we'll have the world covered, but we have to start somewhere! You can try the UK edition of Google with Scandoo here, and the UK edition of MSN with Scandoo here. Just enter any search term in to the box that appears, and let us know what you think!

Scandoo's development really is driven by user feedback.  I know we repeat this a fair bit. We launched as a beta service because we thought it was the best way to get insight into how to further improve it and get help in ironing out the bugs.