Via the John Battelle Searchblog

As was bound to happen, Furl has been snapped up by a large corporation.

Two days after the Furl site was quietly redesigned, CEO Mike Giles in a letter to users, said Furl will be joining with LookSmart:

... LookSmart acquired Furl for the same reasons you probably use it - it is a great service that works well - and LookSmart has no intention of changing the things that make it great. On the contrary, LookSmart is committed to making existing features even more powerful.

It is now called "LookSmart's Furl" and new features are in the pipeline, including groups, and the ability to search across the entire public archive (currently you can only search within your own archive).

The space for the archive is also officially now a huge 5GB of space (there was no stated limit previously).

For anyone who hasn't heard of Furl yet, it's an excellent service that allows you to bookmark any page you visit to Furl's servers, but more than that the entire page is archived and fully searchable. It also offers sharing of archives and lots of other features you can check here.

LookSmart is a search engine company, with directory results provided by the volunteer edited Zeal directory, and the regular search results collected by the distributed crawler, Grub.

If Furl is integrated as a part of LookSmart's search engine, it will have an excellent feature not offered by the other recent personalization engines: full text searching of the pages you've visited.

More info:
· LookSmart - Help Build the Best Web Search
· What is Furl?
· About LookSmart
· Grokking Furl: Storage, Search, and the PersonalWeb
· Welcome to the family Furl! - From the CTO of LookSmart
· LookSmart Acquires Furl