Editing

There is now some basic editing capability allowing you to update your existing Srchr modules (you need to log in to do this.)  More editing features will be added shortly.

Edit capability

When you create a login, you gain complete control over the interface now…the default template becomes your “seed” which you can manipulate, etc.  The one capability that doesn’t exist now is edit funcitonality on the modules themselves.  Right now you can delete them, but not change them.  This will be changed soon.

Local Search

I’ve added local search capabilities (job search and event search.)  Originally I thought I’d have to add another search input box to accomodate the city/zip, but it turns out that you can just put that into the search query with the search terms and most sites now are pretty good about getting you the right results.  Not Craigslist though, you still have to go to your individual city site first to get the right feed URL (which can be done manually.) 

OpenSearch

Full OpenSearch support is forthcoming.

Competition

There are other sites out there which do similar things to SRCHR: tagjag.com for example, or rollyo.com, or nowsy.com, and I just found out about the Yahoo search builder. Similar, but fundamentally different than SRCHR.

Google

…added the google Srchr module.

Local Search

If you’re wondering why there is no “job search” category, the reason is because jobs are part of the broader category of local search. I am planning to add local search, but this will require an additional text box to specify zip code or city/state as well as a few other modifications. Local search also includes things like events, and store promotions which will also be added at that time.

About SRCHR

SRCHR is the first ever search feed aggregator. I came up with the idea as an offshoot of a project I was working on to mashing up search feeds from hundreds of keywords. You can think of SRHCR as a meta search engine and an RSS aggregator combined. It’s not purely meta-search because some of the modules show results from single sites (as opposed to true search engines, eg. Flickr), and it’s not just an RSS aggregator because plain vanila RSS doesn’t use parameterized queries (which gives you the custom search results as opposed to “buzz”).

There are other sites out there which do similar things to SRCHR: tagjag.com for example, or nowsy.com. Similar, but fundamentally different than SRCHR.