DigForIt.com is a new meta-search engine built around AJAX fonctionnalities to make it more dynamic and fast, currently supporting search for web, images, news, audio, video, blogs, jobs, classified, products and tags. A similar item have been sold for over $100,000 on eBay late last year, pointed TechCrunch. Currently it's for sale on eBay about $11,000 and just 8 days remaining (until may 14). The meta-search engine is written in PHP, and include an integrated advertising system. The owner pointed to the different business opportunities with this meta search engine, of course mashups are very promising projects especially with parallel processing but be ready to invest to enter the competition with established meta-search engines.

I have been building Digforit.com as a bit of a research project in decentralized search and AJAX implementation. I would essentially built out some features, have my network of associates test it out, and then make the improvements and take it offline...not before the engine taking several thousand queries per week only from just a small email to my associates. They all LOVED the search capabilities. I repeated this process for searching for blogs, jobs, images etc. Then I proceeded to develop some really innovative Ajax features in terms of instantaneous search suggestions, AJAX browsing, and using AJAX slider bars to manipulate and increase the speed of the search results.