searchengine update

as it's a friday, here are a few of the more recent, old-ish and revamped sites for a wider variety of search results than plain old effective google...

tafiti: experimental search front-end from Microsoft; it uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search

searchmash: Google's beta mashup

ask: you know ask.com - revamped (you've probably seen the ads)

miss dewey: the fun one

two new beta sites worth signing up for the private beta (currently) and keeping a track of...
[true knowledge]: 'a website where you can ask questions about any subject and get a direct response'
powerset: a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing