Joongel makes searching social sites simpler

Joongel (rate it!) is a new plug-in for Firefox and IE7 that lets you search through various social media and news sites using the same query. Unlike a search aggregator that mixes up all the results, you have to view them on each service's results page. It's simply emulating the same effect of having each site's custom search installed in your browser's built-in search bar.

If you're a search junkie, this is a whole lot faster than having to navigate to each site and then use the search tool. Essentially it's saving you one click each time you want to look for something. At the same time it's taking away some of the business your browser's creators are getting by replacing the stock search engine modules with this one.

The Joongel plug-in comes in two flavors: one for social media sites like Digg, Reddit, and Delicious, and a "standard" one that includes reference tools like Wikipedia, Technorati, and Yahoo Answers. Those who don't want to install the plug-in can give it a spin (in any browser) by clicking on the screenshot below.

Joongel's social media search toolbar gives you quick access to several social news and media sites and the search engines that go with them. To give it a spin, click on the graphic above.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

[Altrena]

Finally something that instead of trying to be the next Google, they seem to position themselves aside Google. I believe that with a humble approach and focused service it can become the complementary service for Google, and eventually might take over some significant market share.
I'm definitely going to check out on these guys on a regular basis.

[samkrinick]

After seeing this write up I downloaded the Joongel toolbar onto my computer and I have been loving the experience so far. It was hard for me before this to choose between using my Google or Wikipedia toolbar because I am the type of user that always wants to see more than one result. Now with my Joongel toolbar, I am able to see results in one window from a wide variety of the most popular sites and I find this to be extremely helpful and a useful time saver!