If you like to perform the same search on multiple search engines, one option is to use meta search tools like Dogpile that aggregate results from different place into one page.
Now Widexplorer tackles the same problem but with a different approach. Rather than aggregating results, Wide Explorer takes all the different search pages and arranges all of them on one page in a horizontal direction - see this example for ‘canon 50d.’
This may sound a bit strange but once you try this ‘unique’ layout, you may actually like it. That’s because the information you are looking for is often available among the top 5 or 6 search results so a vertical scroll is unnecessary in most cases.
Other than searching the web, Wide Explorer also provides alternate reading layouts for other popular sites in News, Magazines, Tech and other categories. Thanks Gabe.
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Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/search-web-in-horizontal-mode/4309/
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Reader Comments
I like the Wideexplorer. How as shown in the image it display on two horizontal pane. and it take a longer to display all results. Yet the fastest google comes first.
It is good, but search takes a longer time
Written by Nitin on 08.23.08
WideExplorer is really a nice website to search on any stuff and to get an aggregate information of it. Its quite obvious that it takes a longer time to search but then it doesnt matter to me. Because getting all the information at one place is useful then to go at different websites with higher speeds.
Written by Milan Chheda on 08.24.08
I really like this. It’s now in my Custom Links. Is there a way to squeeze the display horizontally so that more search engine panes display on the screen at the same time? Thanks
Written by SueH on 08.24.08
Interesting new take on the search aggregation space. I can see this catching on with people who are visually focused.
Written by Felix on 08.24.08