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While there is plenty of buzz around Google's new SearchWiki, another Google experiment is quietly disappearing: SearchMash. Once located at SearchMash.com, the service was Google's experimental search interface, a non-branded search engine that Google used to test new technology.

SearchMash let users search the Internet in different ways. Specifically, it let searchers reorder results and see the top three image results next to Web results. SearchMash also recognized classes of proper nouns and displayed refinements for them and adjusted for spelling mistakes.

Google has added SearchWiki tools that will enable Web surfers to create customized search results by adding, deleting, re-sorting or commenting on query results. The program's development team said SearchWiki is a good example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic.

Silicon Valley startup Skyfire is giving Windows Mobile smartphone users an opportunity to take the latest beta version of its mobile Web browser for a test drive. First unveiled in January, Skyfire brings many of the latest Web 2.0 innovations to mobile handsets, the company said.

"We don't like to think of ourselves as a mobile Internet browser," said Skyfire CEO and cofounder Nitin Bhandari. "Skyfire is a full-feature Internet browser on the mobile device."

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