Breaking: Major Search Engine Uses The Same Snap.com Technology As 2 Million Sites and Blogs at blog.snap.com

Breaking: Major Search Engine Uses The Same Snap.com Technology As 2 Million Sites and Blogs

Paul Angles October 25th, 2007 in In the News, Snap Shots

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The 2 million websites and blogs that use Snap.com's Snap Shots technology now share something with one of the world's largest Internet companies:

Google, which maintains a website called SearchMash for testing new technologies and interface designs, is using Snap's website preview technology. The new the SearchMash site uses Adobe's Flash technology rather than AJAX which is used on the primary SearchMash site and selectively in Google's main search results.

Said Snap.com CEO and Co-Founder Tom McGovern, "I've always loved using SearchMash. Now that it has website previews, there's just so much more to love."

Sites wishing to be part of the next wave of Snap Shots are encouraged to visit Snap Shots Central to learn what's possible now and to register for the free service that's enhancing sites worldwide.

Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari users are welcome to join the hundreds of thousands of users who have downloaded Snap Shots Add-On and brought the Snap Shots functionality to:

3 Comments »

Ghosty Oct 26th, 2007 at 2:59 am

Very cool. Maybe the big G will acquire you? :)

vishnu Oct 26th, 2007 at 3:23 am

voila..!

So that search engine with G is also gonna use he technology :) nice to hear that!

eliasdabbas Oct 27th, 2007 at 5:11 am

Now it's safer for G's users to know whether or not they are really "lucky today". It makes it a lot more valuable to be on the number one spot in search results, because users are much more likely to click on something they can see as opposed to just text. Cool feature!

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