Blogger in Draft search widget

I like the new Google Search widget (currently only available via http://draft.blogger.com). Unlike the Google Custom Search, which has been available for awhile, this widget puts the results into your site, instead of sending visitors offsite. You can add the widget to your existing blogger based blog, (i.e., you don't have to have a 2nd "draft" version running). The widget takes up a little bit of sidebar real estate, as shown here;

Once a search is complete you'll see the results displayed in the main section of your Blogger blog, above the latest posting;

All results will have this generic header.

You can also select from different options to show results from the five categories (listed above).

In The Bike Lane (ITBL)

Who would of thought that four letters (ITBL) could mean so many different things, it's amazing what you can find with a simple google search.

Most are acronyms for things like; Information-Technology-Based Laboratories, Immuno Tech Beijing Limited, Inquiry Through Blended Learning and many more.

I'm using the initials "ITBL" for my blog in some of my widgets, like my "Amazon Recommendations" (products that I actually own and use), just to shorten the widget title. I also thought that I might register a domain with the initials? But that's not going to happen, another search show there's someone "squatting" on that domain and they want ~$4K for it.

Search engines in general and how useful they have become is a whole other topic, which made me think about the first search engine (or search based tools) that I could remember using;

I think the first that I dealt with, on a regular basis, was a software product in the early 90's by Sun Microsystems for their SunSolve library of bugs, patches, infodocs, etc. Later, on the web, there was Altavista (which now seems to be part of Yahoo) and now, of course, Google.