What is Boom!

Boom! is an intelligent search assistent that allows you to search more efficiently. It will analyze whatever it is that you are searching for and direct you to the search engine that is most likely to give you the best result.

If you search for "books by Dan Brown", it will not search on Google but instead move you directly to Amazon. Similarly, if you search for "pancake recipes" it will move you directly to "All Recipes" or if you want to find a hotel in Boston, simply search for "locate hotels in Boston" and it will search using Google Maps.

Note: if Boom! cannot find a better alternative, it will simply use Google as you are used to.

This, in short, is what types of searches it currently supports (click on each link to see how it works):

It also supports searching on popular social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Linked-In.

And, more is coming!

How to use Boom!

Simply type what you want to search for, and Boom! will do the rest. It is that easy!

But, in case you want more control you can use the following "commands" to force Boom! in a specific direction:

General Commands

Type in any name in front of what you are looking and Boom will search using that.

E.g. type "yahoo usability patterns" and Boom! will search Yahoo! for "usability patterns".

The supported search engines are: Google, Yahoo, Live, Wikipedia, Amazon, Flickr, YouTube, Stage6, Ebay, Microsoft, Apple, GMail, Technorati, Facebook, IMDB, Linked-In (and more is coming)

Special Commands

You can also direct Boom! to do a special search. Use:

  • Map, drive or route to search Google Maps
  • Pictures, photos or images to search Flickr
  • Trailer to search for trailers on QuickTime Trailers
  • Author or book to search for books on Amazon
  • News to search for News
  • Blog to search with Google Blog Search
  • Watch or See to search for videos on YouTube
  • Movie to search for Movies on IMDB

e.g. if you search for "map New York to Boston" you get driving directions from Google Maps. And if you search for "Author Dan Brown", you will find all Dan Browns book on Amazon.

Natural Language Commands

Apart from searching by command, Boom! also include a natural language processor. It will try to figure out what you mean, even when you do not use a specific command - e.g. if you search for "where is the CN Tower" Boom! will show you where that is.

Install Boom! in your browser

Installing Boom! as your default search engine is great, because then you do not even have to visit the site first. Just type in whatever you are looking for - and you will go directly to the most appropriate search result. You will never even have to see Boom!

Just click on the install button below and you are set. You can always change it later.

Updates

Things to come (or might come)...

  • Travel and Flight search
  • Whois Search
  • IP lookup
  • Domain Search
  • Sports Scores

February 2, 2008

  • Added: Weather forecasts using the keyword "weather" - e.g. "weather in Kolding" or "Kolding weather"
  • Bug Fix: fixed a bug that would force Boom! to check for special entries even if a match was found
  • Added: logo search (for download) using "download [brand] logo"
  • Added: UPS, USPS and FedEx Package tracking (with "track", "tracking", "track package", "package", "package tracking", "UPS", "FedEx" and "USPS" as keywords)
  • Added: Gamespot ("games" = natural language keyword) and XBox.com for Xbox/Xbox 360 games.
  • Added: ask.com, Capris (books) and Alexa (with "traffic" as a natural language keyword)