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Musclebuilder Smart Search

I love Google; couldn’t live without it and I’m sure you’re the same. But often — too often — pages and pages go by before the right site pops up, and sometimes I give up too early and start jumping around to the most likely sources. Quick scan, read a few interesting but un-related pages, click off to another site, ditto action, until an hour’s slipped away and I’m late for the gym.

Yeah, I know that’s what the web’s all about. But still.

Today I’m here to tell you I love Google even more than yesterday because they’ve given us the tools to create our own search engines. You heard me: We get to google only the sites and pages we choose — so far about 150 sites have been selected by the IOL team for our search page. It took about a day to set up, and I’m sure there will be further tweaks over time, but man, oh, man is it worth it!

Here’s what it looks like. It’s operational; give it a shot and see what pops up.