about:

find:Design is a collaborative custom search engine focused on design built using Google's core search technology in order to find results from design related news, portals, blogs, directories, media, podcasts, companies, portfolios and other design resources.

Why is it different than the normal Google search?
Because when you perform a search here, Google search the entire web but emphasize on design related sites.
How does Google know which sites are design related?
Through the Google coop framework, we set a list of design related sites and a group of keywords that orient the Google search engine to find design related results. (the process of adding sites and refinements is collaborative, which means that the search engine gets the expertise of its contributors to deliver the best results)
And the best thing is that you can refine the results by labels that add a deeper filtering in the results.

Here an example:
When you look for “car” in Google you get this very generic results:

But when you look for “car” in find:Design you get this:
Where the first result is about green design, and the third is a car design news.

And if you filter the results by “product”, the search is refined with the keywords"product, industrial, render, materials, model,  mock up, sketch" you get this:
Where the first result is a post in the industrial design site core77, the second is about a car design institute.

use it:

To add the find:Design searchbox in your site,
copy/paste this code:

<!-- find:Design search box Begins --> <div align="center"><br /> <a href="http://finddesign.blinkr.net/"><img src="http://finddesign.blinkr.net/fd150.gif" alt="find:Design > the design search engine" border="0" /></a><br /> <form id="searchbox_006327380862895352785:inij3grcgn4" action="http://finddesign.blinkr.net/"> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="006327380862895352785:inij3grcgn4" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:1" /> <input name="q" type="text" size="20" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_006327380862895352785%3Ainij3grcgn4"></script></div> <!-- find:Design search box Ends -->

and you will get this searchbox:

you can also can grab our badges, or bookmark bookmark us

* Firefox users: Drag the badge into the Bookmarks Toolbar.
* Internet Explorer users: Right-click on the badges, then select "Add to Favorites"

join us!

Share your desing expertise!
Find:Design allows you to collaborate with other users in creating the design search engine.
If you want to contribute as a volunteer, you will have access to add or restrict sites and apply existing refinement labels to the search engine.

Contribute to find:Design in 2 easy and fast steps:

1) put the google marker on your browser

Google Marker

*Firefox users: Drag the marker into the Bookmarks Toolbar
*Internet Explorer users: I recommend you to start using Firefox ;)... but if you are still using IE, right-click on the marker, then select "Add to Favorites" > "Links."

2) contribute to find:Design as a volunteer

I want to contribute as a volunteer
[google account needed]

thanks for your visit,

find us at: info@findDesign.blinkr.net