Worio, the discovery-based search engine, is integrating with Facebook in order to leverage your Facebook activity to help you find information about the topics of interest to you. By looking at the information on your Facebook profile and the activity of your news feed, Worio can provide recommendations for information you may like. The interesting part of this recommendation system is that Worio is able to take advantage of your friends’ data coming through the news feed in order to generate more search discovery tools.

For example, Worio can see that you and ten of your friends are from the…

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Remember the Quick Search powertoy for IE? Well, now it’s built in. Load up TweakUI and expand the Internet Explorer menu. Under search, you can create new search options. For example: Create one with a prefix of “g” and a URL of “http://www.google.com/search?q=%s”. Now, to search Google for, say, penguins, all you have to do is type “g penguins” in the Address bar. Nice and easy.

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