This week we've released a new tool that allows Finday users to participate more directly in the development of new features and to improve existing ones.Starting Monday you'll see a brand new little red tab on the left side of your browser, called feedback. If you click on it, you'll be able to rate our website and make any comment you'd like on Finday: Do you find it useful? How do you think we could improve our service? Have we forgotten something? Have you spotted an error on the site? Don't be shy, we want to hear what you have to say!

This new function has been added to the constant improvements we're making on Finday so it can deserve a place on your browser's homepage. And if not, what are you waiting for? Use the feedback tab and tell us what you think of Finday!

To increase the number of useful results you get from your searches, it is best to always keep in mind the 3 golden rules for searches:

1) Restrict, 2) Expand, and 3) Obtain.

Today, we'll finish this series of 3 entries with the last one.

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For the past few months, the search engine waters have increased their activity and things have reached a boiling point.  Microsoft and Yahoo! teamed up to overthrow Google, the reigning King, by renaming the old Live Search, now known as "Bing". Google included some improvements on its end, by trying out a test version of its own engine called Caffeine, and added some new features to its classic interface. But in the end, as 2009 was leaving us, the fact of the matter is that this year the question remains the same: which of the two is the best?

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To increase the number of useful results you get from your searches, it is best to always keep in mind the 3 golden rules for searches:

1) Restrict, 2) Expand, and 3) Obtain.

We continue this series of 3 entries with the second one:

Expand

• Do not forget that search engines can differ between languages in terms of locating content. If you want to expand the search to the entire Internet (and therefore get many more results), don't narrow your search to websites written only in your language.
• Automatic filters are not perfect, and if there are no children using your user account and you don´t mind the occasional explicit or risqué image, you should also deactivate the content filters.
• Searches don't just come in text form: remember that most browsers also allow you to locate images, videos, news, blogs or forums, so if you can't find what you want within normal results, stretch the reach of your search to different kinds of sites.
• Some search engines offer the possibility of expanding your results with "related searches":  use it!

More to come