I’ve started to use Squidoo, mostly as an experiment regarding traffic generation and social media application development. I also like Seth Godin’s philosophy, so decided to take this for a spin. Seth’s blog is a must-read. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

The Squidoo Utils site says that ’searching for Squidoo lenses on a search engine can be a real pain sometimes, as the results are very often filled with non-content pages. Finding the best groups for your lens to join can also be very tricky.

SquidUtils provides two custom searches that are optimised to only return the searches that you want to see. Click on the ‘Squidoo Search‘ link on the homepage, and enter the keywords you wish to find.

This functionality can also be found on the browser toolbar for Lensmasters »
Simply click on the down arrow next to the search icon to select lenses or groups, and type in a search query.

For advice on finding the right groups to join, visit A Lensmaster’s Guide To Groups.