The Wall Street Journal had a brief note about Google's new search engine, called SearchMash. It does what a lot of other search engines have been doing for a while, which is to provide more targeted results, with links to images, video, blogs, and even Wikipedia articles. A few cursory searches seems produced better results with less junk than I usually see in the first few pages of a Google search. SearchMash is also ad-free for now, which is a nice benefit. It is about time Google started to defend its home turf. For some time, I have been going to Ask.com more often than I go to Google. Dogpile, despite the name, also does a pretty good job of finding stuff, and has the benefit of searching several engines at once.