SeoAlchemist

Recently Hakia extended a call to librarians and information professionals to help them in their quest to bring credible search results to the web on all topics.  Previously Hakia offered credibility stamped health and medical searches.  Expanding beyond those topics to include all is obviously a very lofty goal, and one that most certainly cannot be realized without a lot of manpower.

This week Hakia launched a new search interface featuring a tabbed option.  You can search the entire web, or you can click on one of the tabs to focus your search.  Options on the tabs included “All Results”, “Credible Results”, “News”, “Images”, and “Meet Others.”

The interface and results pages are very clean, which I like. It very clearly takes inspiration from Google with  muted shades of pastel blue, pink, yellow, and so on, and sponsored links along the right side. (more…)