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Search Tools
Searching for information you need on the Internet can be an overwhelming
task unless you have knowledge of the tools that can help you and a
good command of search strategy. Search tools are clearly becoming one of
the most valued components of the Internet, and effective use of them increases
your efficiency and your productivity.
Tools
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Google
http://www.google.com
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In addition to providing easy access to more than
4 billion web pages, Google has many special features to help
you to find exactly what you're looking for.
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AlltheWeb.com
http://alltheweb.com
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This powerful search engine
helps users search over three billion web pages. One can use
it focuses on news, pictures, video, audio, and FTP sites. Additionally,
it indexes PDF and Microsoft Word files.
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Blizg.com
http://blizg.com
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Blizg.com is an index of blogs that
uses metadata to show relationships among blogs.
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Blogarama
http://www.blogarama.com
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Blogarama is the best free
directory of web logs (blogs) and journal sites. It organizes
by type as well as categorizing them into What's New, What's
Popular, and What's Cool.
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BrainBoost
http://www.brainboost.com
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This no-search search
engine attempts to answer your plain English questions directly,
but it does provide links to help you get the exact information
sought.
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Google Directory
http://directory.google.com
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Directories are
viewed by humans and organized by topic. Listed links are more
likely to have a greater percentage of hits on topic than pure
than automatic search tools.
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Ixquick
http://ixquick.com
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A metasearch engine that gives one
the option to search for MP3 files from its main page.
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KartOO
http://kartoo.com
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KartOO is a metasearch engine with
visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches
the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles
them, and represents them in a series of interactive maps.
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Profusion Business Search Page
http://www.profusion.com/default.asp?
agt=0!4!&cobid=ess&sid=
{27D64210-8C30-4E18-B377-284D296DB0B9}
&queryterm=
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This meta search engine's business site gives users access to
specialized business directories as well as the web. It highlights
the search terms, enabling users to quickly determine if the
link is appropriate. And it reports where it found the link,
helping users evaluate quickly the likelihood the content is
good as well.
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Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com
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This meta search engine clusters
results into folders it names. It clearly identifies its sponsored
links as well as the search engine that identified the result.
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Strategy Information
More . . .
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ChangeDetect
http://www.changedetect.com
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ChangeDetect is a
free service that saves your favorite web pages, monitors content
for changes and sends an automatic email notification to you
whenever your web pages are updated.
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Google Labs
http://labs.google.com
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Google
tools not quite ready for distribution but which you can tryout
and give feedback that would make the tool better for you.
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Feedster.com
http://feedster.com
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Feedster is a search engine for "blogs". In
the world of weblogs or "blogs",
the term "feed" refers
to a "RSS Feed" which is an XML based data format that
allows a blog's contents to be accessed via another program.
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Gimenei.com
http://gimenei.com
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Gimenei is an extremely fast and powerful web metasearch engine.
Gimenei meta-searches multiple
pages from each of the top search engines on the Internet simultaneously.
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