Use Google to search Furl!
Spurl is a social bookmarking manager similar to Furl. Zniff is a search engine for all the collective Spurl accounts.
Furl has a public version of single accounts (unless marked private by the account holder) so you can search an individual archive.
It also has a collective search engine of all the Furl accounts, but you have to search this from your own account.
What if you don’t have a Furl account (even though they are free!)
A way around this is to use Google:
in this example “trigon” is the search term
Although it doesn’t accept “phrase searching”…I tried to do a search for “tax and taxonomies” which is an article I have in my Furl archive, but it returned 2 hits from other Furl accounts that had both the words in the bookmark, but not as a phrase.
Another way is using the site search function:
Technorati tags and Tag Central both search Furl, but only for a tag and the contents within, they don’t search the full-text.














Zniff Launches Time Based Search and XML feeds of Search Results
So, as the web becomes more like a conversation, it is important to be able to search with time in mind. Zniff, the human edited search engine, now sorts search results by the time that it was spurled (bookmarked on
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