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FindHow
http://www.findhow.com FindHow is a family, school, and library-friendly how-to search engine. We index many trusted sources, including government and educational institutions. |
 
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ChaCha (people search)
http://www.chacha.com/ Simply ask your question from your mobile phone as if you were talking to a smart friend. We'll instantly route your question to the most knowledgeable person on that topic in our Guide community. Your answer is then returned to your phone as a text message within a few minutes. |
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Beyond Google
http://bit.ly/8XjOF9 Beyond Google - 15 Tools and Strategies for Improving Your Web Search Results |
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Google Real Time Search
http://bit.ly/8pjLKp Google Real Time Search Real Time Searching is all the name suggests. In search results for any term, you can see new content being added in real time by clicking the “see latest results” link. |
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Kidrex : Search Engine for Kids
http://www.kidrex.org/ Kidrex : Search Engine for Kids KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search and use Google SafeSearch technology. In addition to Google SafeSearch, KidRex maintains its own database of inappropriate websites and keywords. KidRex researchers test KidRex daily to insure that you and your child have the best web experience possible. |
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Googles 15 second search tips .. videos
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B3A7CCFD7CD5CF09 Googles 15 second search tips .. videos n YouTube Excellent series |
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Webmynd
http://www.webmynd.com/ Webmynd Enhance your Google searches with customized results from sources like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter. Record and search a visual history of your web surfing. You’ll never lose track of what you find on the internet. Use the Dock to easily switch tabs, revisit recently viewed pages, and share links with your friends. |
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TAGslides
http://searchslides.com/ TAGslides Tagslides offers a visual way for you to browse the net. Using tags, Tagslides creates a slideshow of corresponding websites, each of whose start page you get to view for 15 seconds. If you decide you want to go to the site, you can pause the show and check it out. To create a show, add tags from Tagslide's suggested bank of words, or create your own. by adding them to the "Active tags" box. When you're done, click on "My Slideshow", and Tagslides will generate it for you. You can also browse the 500+ existing shows, and if you see a slide you like, you can add it to your show as well with a click of the mouse. |
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netTrekker : educational search tool
http://www.nettrekker.com/ netTrekker Voted the #1 educational search tool in K-12 schools, netTrekker delivers only the very best digital content, organized by grade and reading level and aligned with YOUR state standards, to every classroom to energize lessons and motivate learning! Use our unique set of valuable differentiated instruction tools to quickly and easily find just the right resource to meet each child’s individual learning needs! |
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Google Custom Search
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Google Custom Search ... With Google Custom Search, you can harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your own website. - Include one or more websites, or specific webpages -Host the search box and results on your own website -Customize the look and feel of the results to match your site See this example from a teacher ... Ancient China-6th Grade | |
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Google Insights for Search
http://google.com/insights/search/# With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. See examples of how you can use Google Insights for Search. |
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Bingle : Compare Searches on Bing and Google
http://bingle.pwnij.com/ Bingle : Compare Searches on Bing and Google |
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Bing ... Microsoft Search Engine
http://tr.im/mKMP Bing ... Microsoft Search Engine |
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Sputtr : build you own search engine
http://www.sputtr.com/ Sputtr : build you own search engine Multi search engine ... Customize Your Page |
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OneRiot
http://www.oneriot.com OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages in seconds. The end result is a search experience that allows users to find the freshest, most socially-relevant content from across the realtime web. |
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LeapFish
http://www.leapfish.com/ LeapFish offers one of the world’s fastest search platforms delivering instantaneous search results from the variety of the Web as you type. In short, LeapFish is an advanced search and social media aggregate platform. |
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Mnemomap Search Engine
http://www.mnemo.org/ Mnemomap Search Engine ... results displayed as a mindmap |
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Shamblesguru "Search" Digital Media Collection
http://vodpod.com/shamblesguru |
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100 Useful Tips to Research the Deep Web
http://tinyurl.com/5wqyng 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web Experts say that typical search engines like Yahoo! and Google only pick up about 1% of the information available on the Internet. The rest of that information is considered to be hidden in the deep web, also referred to as the invisible web. So how can you find all the rest of this information? This list offers 100 tips and tools to help you get the most out of your Internet searches. |
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All About Websearch
http://websearch.about.com/ All About Websearch Web Search 101 | Free People Search Tools | top ten basic Web search skills | |
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13 Alternative Search Engines
http://tinyurl.com/9czygg 13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t Google has become the standard search engine of virtually every web-goer on the internet today. In fact “to Google” is pretty much synonymous with “to search”. But that certainly doesn’t mean that other search engines can’t do a decent, if not better, job and this list has been compiled for just this reason. So check out this catalog of awesome alternative search engines that are certain to help you search faster and more efficiently on that World Wide |
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Search by Creative Commons
http://search.creativecommons.org/ Search by Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon utilizing Creative Commons enabled search services at Google, Yahoo!, and Flickr. You can also access this tool via the Firefox web browser. |
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WhosTalkin
http://www.whostalkin.com WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name; Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most. Our goal is to deliver the most relevant and current conversations happening in the world of social media. |
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Search Tips Poster
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html Librarian Central - Tools Looking for tools to help teach your students and patrons how to use Google more effectively? Search Tips Poster | Search Tips Bookmark | Web Search Poster | Search Tips Tent Card | Educators Poster | Google Book Search Poster | Google Scholar Poster | Libraries and Google Book Search | |
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Top 10 Alternative Search Engines for 2008
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_alternative_search_engi.php Top 10 Alternative Search Engines for 2008 This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog. In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen -- a lot. Google has been compared to a luxury liner that turns around very, very slowly, whereas the startups are speedboats that can turn (or innovate) on a dime. I guarantee that if you try any of these top 10 alternative search engines of 2008, you won't come away saying, "Hey, that was just like Google." |
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A short and easy search engine tutorial
http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html A short and easy search engine tutorial "Welcome to our free search engine tutorial, a short and easy guide to Web searching, search engines and directories. This little crash course will teach you how to explore the Net more efficiently." |
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Google Power Searching Tips for Students
http://tinyurl.com/5ff4z2 Google Power Searching Tips for Students and Universities Google is the go-to search engine for both students and librarians. But with so much information on the web, it can be difficult to navigate Google and find exactly what you are looking for. The following Google power searching tips are designed to eliminate this common difficulty and lead you to the relevant information you need. |
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Lunascape
http://www.lunascape.tv/ World's First Triple-Engine Web Browser Do you use multiple web browsers? Juggling multiple web browsers is not so uncommon to overcome incompatibity and inefficiency of web sites or browsers that are not well optimized to web standards. But it's not that power users who know how to install and use multiple browsers actually love the hassle at the cost of their precious time. Lunascape is here for you! For the first time ever, there is a web browser that has integrated the three main browser rendering engines with the ability to switch to the optimal engine automatically. |
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Search using the keyboard only
http://keyboardr.com/ Search using keyboard only ... could be a useful website if a student is not able to control the mouse very well. Navigate with arrow keys. Open with enter. Assistive technology |
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Study Search : educational search
http://www.studysearch.com.au/ Study Search : a customised educational search engine for Australian Schools Studysearch uses the power of Google's search engine combined with a growing database of educational websites. When a search is done Google checks our database and gives those sites priority in the search results. The student is still doing a full Google search but the results are tuned to display sites that are more relevant. |
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Universal Education Search
http://learn.creativecommons.org/projects/oesearch Universal Education Search We have explored ways to build a scalable, extensible, federated search for all educational resources on the web. One of the more interesting and pressing problems facing users of the Internet is quickly finding and evaluating the resources they seek. Clearly, this is a problem not limited to education, but given that the top concern for most educators (and learners, for that matter) is lack of time, we needed to design more efficient and effective ways of identifying educational resources online. In collaboration with other open educational projects, and with several major search companies, we have tested out possible solutions to the “search problem.” In addition to the Universal Education Search, we are hosting several existing search portals for educational resources, as can be seen in the “Search” tab. |
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Web Search Strategies in Plain English (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHPf00Jkqg Web Search Strategies in Plain English (video) A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches. This video is licensed for non-commercial use. www.commoncraft.com |
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Hakia Semantic Search
http://www.hakia.com/ Hakia Semantic Search Taps Librarians for More Credible Results "Hakia has been around for a while, offering users a place to find what they call a verified, social, semantic search engine. Not only do you get a form of semantic search, the folks at Hakia go a bit further and verify the results as well. This has been the case for those engaging in health searches using Hakia’s social semantic search engine.", Today's search engines bring popular results via statistical ranking methods but a popular Web site may not always be credible, and a credible Web site may not always be popular. As a result, searchers suffer in many ways ranging from wasted search time to using misleading information. Hakia’s semantic technology provides a new search experience that is focused on quality, not popularity. hakia’s quality search results satisfy three criteria simultaneously: They (1) come from credible Web sites recommended by librarians, (2) represent the most recent information available, and (3) remain absolutely relevant to the query. |
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Widexplorer
http://widexplorer.com/ Widexplorer provides a bidirectional (horizontal-vertical) interface that enhances your browser's scrolling capabilities, resulting in a practical and productive way to browse accross search results from multiple search engines and the web most prominent destinations for a variety of topics. WEBSETS: Widexplorer takes your web navigation a step forward by displaying several websites in the same window. Websets are predefined groups of the most influential and trustworthy Web sites for a particular topic. There's currently 12 Websets available and more are in the way. |
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The Viewzi Visual Search Engine
http://www.viewzi.com The Viewzi Visual Search Engine While Viewzi is really a search aggregation tool that uses, but doesn't compete with, Google, it does show a nifty approach to search ... |
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Cui : the world’s biggest search engine
http://www.cuil.com Cui : the world’s biggest search engine Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency. Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. |
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midomi
http://www.midomi.com/ midomi is the ultimate music search tool because it is powered by your voice. Sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests. Give it a try. It's truly amazing! |
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AllMyFaves
http://ent.allmyfaves.com/ AllMyFaves We have searched the web and provided you with a visual directory that includes the best sites in each category! |
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25 Awesome Beta Research Tools
http://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/25-awesome-beta 25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World If you're tired of using the same old search box on your local library website for research projects, it might be time to broaden your horizons. Try out one of these in-the-works betas sponsored by world-class libraries around the world. From academic libraries like that at MIT or renowned research centers like the Library of Congress, the following beta research tools feature innovative tricks to connect you with the most relevant, valid results on the Internet and in their card catalogs. Melvil Dewey would be proud. |
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AskVox
http://www.askvox.com/ AskVox ... talking search engine |
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Mahalo ... search engine
http://www.mahalo.com Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven't yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results. |
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Visual-Search Extension for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5309 Visual-Search Extension for Firefox Visual Search Extension allows you to search visually in all of your favorite search engines. This extension really does save you vast amounts of time and is a great usability increase. Visual Search Extension allows you to search visually in all of your favorite search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and countless others). For online video demo Click HERE |
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wis.dm
http://wis.dm/ wis.dm is an online community where you ask questions to the wis.dm crowd and get back useful answers. It is for people who are looking for something more meaningful than they get from “popularity” based social networks. It’s a place to engage around asking, sharing, growing and learning. It’s where you get to question everything. When you ask a question, you get an immediate quantitative response – a quick sense of the balance-of-opinion. While questions and discussions on wis.dm tend towards a more quality-orientated, progressive dialog, most members don’t take themselves too seriously. Our vision for wis.dm has always been based around a balance of utility and fun, and this is something we are very keen to support as the wis.dm community grows. |
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Snap
http://www.snap.com/ Snap is a very different way of searching, one we suspect will take a bit of getting used to. As you can imagine, we've done a ton of usability testing in developing Snap and here's what we've learned: while Snap isn't complicated, it is a different way of searching in which a little bit of orientation goes a long way to increasing satisfaction. So, we've tried to help introduce ourselves to you in a number of ways. We believe the visual display of data along with text is better than text alone. Users can better judge a result to be good for their search if they see it rather than read it. When Snap returns results, we show you a preview of the result. |
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Create your own search engine
http://www.google.com/coop/ Create your own search engine Harness the power of Google search technology to create a free Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests - and make money from the resulting traffic. |
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MsFreckles.com
http://www.msfreckles.com Provides an easy way to make professional searches for the ordinary internet user. It offers translation of a text, calculator, superfilter, blogsearch and much more. |
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SearchMash
http://www.searchmash.com/ SearchMash : SearchMash lets you search the internet in new ways. It is constantly evolving as we come up with ideas and figure out what works and what doesn't. Check back here from time to time to see what has changed, and also to tell us which ones are useful to you. Please bear with us when the site is unavailable as we are limiting its use. (Dec 2006) |
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The Life and Near Death of DMOZ
http://www.seo-news.com/archives/2006/dec/21.html The Life and Near Death of DMOZ (Dec 2006) The casket was all but closed on the venerable Open Directory Project (ODP, or dmoz.org ). A December 16 blog post by an ODP founder, Rich Skrenta, "DMOZ had 9 lives. Used up yet?" , suggested that the directory at DMOZ is now, like Marley's ghost, deader than a doornail. DMOZ was down and, for over a month and a half, it looked like it was down for the count. In reality, DMOZ is not dead though the rumours of its demise were not exactly exaggerated either. Because this six-week unscheduled outage followed several years of consumer dissatisfaction, lagging editorial energy, and layoffs at AOL, many made the logical assumption that the plug had been pulled. |
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Hunting with Spiders, Indexes and Search Engines
http://matrixmagic.com/tools/hunt.html Hunting with Spiders, Indexes and Search Engines A Collection of Search Engines | # Learning to Use Search Engines | Evaluating Search Engines | Evaluating Web Site Contents | How to Cite what you found | |
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Ms Dewey Search Engine
http://www.msdewey.com/ Ms Dewey Search Engine ... with a librarian offering to help. |
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