I am pleased to announce tha launch of new GTalk/Jabber bot by the Molu. It is called moluqanda@bot.im

Just add it to your GTalk/Jabber friendlist and send any question to it. It should return an answer to it. The questions may be easy to moderately complex.

Example questions may be:
1. Why is the sky blue?
2. Which is the longest river?
3. Who was the president of USA in 1952?
or anything you may think of.

It can also answer ‘Yes’/'No’ type of questions. Examples may be:
1. Is Bill Clinton married?
2. Is Abraham Lincoln alive?
3. Is Kathmandu in Japan?
or anything you may think of.

Request you all to please try it and give me the feedback. If you like it, request you to please pass the word to as many people as possible.

Thanks for your help.

Himanshu Joshi

PS – Thank you ‘True Knowledge’ for the massive data.

This is great… Two big blogs have covered Molu recently and the comments havd been overwhelming:

KillerStartups.com reviewed Molu:
http://www.killerstartups.com/Site-Reviews/themolu-com-the-search-spider

AltSearchEngines.com -
http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/04/13/the-molu-adding-to-the-users-search-experience/

Thanks to all of you for featuring Molu on your blogs.

Himanshu

Dear friends,

The homescreen of Molu (http://www.themolu.com) has been changed to show all the possible search options (except for Job Search) on the very first screen in a tab form.

User can select the category and sub-category (may be FlickR for images or Youtube for Videos) on the very first screen and directly search for the same.

This makes it more user friendly.

Cheers,

Himanshu Joshi

A major bug was causing users from adding new URLs to their saved searches. Fixed it.

Molu has found a new provider for searching events. It now searches Upcoming and Eventful.
Keep searching, we are in process of adding newer sources.

Cheers,
Himanshu Joshi

Molu is proud to add ISBNdb.com to its list of book search engines. We now proudly search Amazon and ISBNdb for books that interest you.

Molu now searches MSN Live for news… So in the past three days we have added 3 search options from MSN….

Thanks MSN for your wonderful data…

Molu has added MSN image search to its functionality… This has enabled Molu to search for images in four sources -
1. Yahoo Image Search
2. FlickR
3. 23 HQ
4. MSN

Hope to add more sources soon.

Well, Molu has found another provider for Web search and that is MSN Live.

MSN provides wonderful services for searching the web and we are happy to use them.

Yahoo Boss still remains the default search engine.

Add moludict@bot.im to your GTalk/Jabber friendlist
Send it a word and it will return its dictionary meaning.
Thanks to Imified for the wonderful service.