Couple of search related stories here, following my recent posting on whether or not search is broken.
Mike Arrington announces that Euekster have managed to grab $5.5 million in funding.
One of their products is a system for creating site specific search engines called Swickis, which also allows some user contributions in the form of voting for links.
Noel Hatch has set up a local government flavoured Swicki here.
Arrington also notes the launch of Wikiseek, which searches Wikipedia in a community-edited kind of way. It sounds pretty interesting, and I will be having a play. Their homepage looks familiar though… 
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Still, it’s interesting that these new approaches to search are starting to appear, and are working albeit on a fairly limited scale.