Molu is breaking through in the search engine industry, by inventing their “Search Spider” functionality.  Unlike traditional search engines like Google, Yahoo, or MSN, Molu has added lots of new features to improve a users search experience.

How to Quickly Refine Your Search:

Choose Search Type: Molu allows you to search not only websites but images, news sources, videos, blogs, books, answers, events, music, dictionary and more.

Perform Search: Submit a keyword or phrase and Molu will pull in relevant results based on your search type.
Further Refine Your Search: Once you have performed your initial search and you are on the results page, you can further refine your search by choosing a specific site to pull results from.  For example, if you did an image search, you can search Flickr, 23, Yahoo or MSN image results.

Visit, Social Bookmark, Shorten, Extract, Download: This is really where Molu shows its improved features and functionality.  On any results page you can visit the site (in a new tab or within the site), socially bookmark the site, extract the links on the page, or even download the page as a PDF.  If you like to share links between friends, you can shorten the url with their internal url shortening service.

With search engines changing at the blink of an eye, Molu has been a frontrunner with new and innovative ideas.  With combining new web 2.0 concepts like URL shortening, social bookmarking, social sharing, and result refining, the is a great starting point when doing a search.

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I like the new Molu Search Engine. Once you submit a query, you’re shown a text explanation of each result, along with a thumbnail image. Molu allows you to open the website inside the list of search results — you don’t have to leave that page.   Those features make it particularly accessible to English Language Learners. In addition, Molu also provides you with a one-click ability to shorten url addresses and to also save web pages as PDF files in your computer.

I’m adding Molu to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008.

-Larry Ferlazzo,  here.

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