The PicLens plugin works with your browser to turn photos into easily viewable streams.

The best use for this tool so far is in concert with image searches from the top search engines. Instead of leafing through pages, you can slide through a continuous gallery.

PicLens works with the Firefox, Safari or IE browsers.

Sites have to be configured to work with PicLens.

Here is a list of sites that work with PicLens so far:
Flickr
Photobucket
Picasa Web Albums
DeviantArt
Smugmug
Facebook
MySpace
Bebo
Hi5
Friendster
Google Images
Yahoo Images
Ask Images
Live Images
AOL Images

The Library of Congress has opened up a Flickr page. Actually they have 173 pages of pictures at last count. For more on what the LoC is up to check out the Library of Congress Blog.

Jimmy Wales, one of the people that brought us Wikipedia, is now trying to do something with the mess that search engines have become. Wales is launching Wikia Search.

“Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And we are making it open source.” says a statement from Wales on the site. Most search engines do not tell the public how they compile results. The obvious concern is that unscrupulous users would game the system to push their site to the top. Even if that is not what people want to see.

It looks like the folks at Wikia will try to counter barrages of bad input by requiring users to register in order to affect the search reults.

You can try the new Wikia Search Here.

The search engine is only in Alpha test mode right now, so the site carries a caveat that results will improve as time passes. This sounds reasonable given that wikipedia.org started out with very little and grew swiftly.

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