Gada.be: Search from Cell Phones

What the heck is Gada.be? It’s a tag metasearch, which means it lets you find content based on social tags. Yeah. That really doesn’t explain it too well for the average Joe, does it? Well, let me explain in plain ol’ English what this all means.

Why Gada.be? (Italics are excerts from their site):

If you’ve ever tried to visit a Web site over a mobile device, you know it’s a pain in the knuckle. The domain had to be simple to key-in from anywhere. gada.be is 4232.2233 on most cell phones and PSPs. Normally, when you want to find something online, you have to choose a Web site (wait for the page to load) enter the query (wait for the second page to load) then see results from that provider. With "gada.be," you insert the query *AS* the subdomain!

In plain English that means if you want to do a search for Halloween, you type "halloween.gada.be" and get a page of results.

Then, there’s having to visit several sites just to get the results you want. Often, this isn’t feasible when you’re on-the-go. Even when you’re sitting with a laptop or chained to a desktop, it’s still a time-consuming process. We all love the individual search services, so why not bring ‘em together? Okay, that’s what we did.

Again, in plain English, that means your results page has results from many of your favorite search engines, and the links are categorized by the search service. So you will have Yahoo! results, then Google results, then MSN results, etc., all on one page.

Moreover, we dynamically output OPML which you can turn around and import into your favorite news aggregator.

Now, that’s just handy!