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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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Searchme
http://www.searchme.com/ Searchme lets you see what you are searching for ... you'll see pictures of webpages that answer your search. |
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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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Most reliable search tool could be your librarian
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-6120778.html?tag=tb The most reliable search tool could be your librarian Your child wants to learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. You might consider consulting a librarian instead of Google, AOL or Microsoft search engines. |
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Amaztype: Create a Word using images of books
http://amaztype.tha.jp/ Amaztype: Create a Word using images of books ... but in fact an amazing visual search facility for books at Amazon. |
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Search Engine Scavenger Hunt
http://tinyurl.com/p49dg Search Engine Scavenger Hunt |
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Effective Internet Search Strategies
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/effectiv.htm Effective Internet Search Strategies This guide is intended to show you when and how to use Internet search engines, subject guides and other searching tools to effectively find the most useful sources on the Internet. |
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Web Search Strategies
http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/main.html Web Search Strategies This tutorial presents an easy-to-follow process on using search engines and subject directories for finding what you need on the World Wide Web. In each topic section, the tutorial will highlight key websites and/or provide exercises for practicing search techniques. When you click on a link, the tutorial will change to a frames interface. Specific instructions for practicing a technique or navigating a site will appear in the left frame. The actual search engine or subject directory will appear in the right frame. Use the search engine or directory and the suggested exercises to practice the search technique. |
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A Search Engine Showdown Online Tutorial
http://searchengineshowdown.com/strat/basicsearch.html A Search Engine Showdown Online Tutorial This online tutorial is primarily set up to be used in a live, hands-on instructional setting. It is also made available here as an example of hands-on instructional techniques and for those who would like to try it on their own. This tutorial explores basic Internet search strategies and some standard Web search tools. It covers URL guessing, the basics of multiple word searches, and basic Web searching strategies and the differences between portals, directories, and search engines. |
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PreFound : Search Engine
http://www.prefound.com/ PreFound : Search Engine PreFound.com allows human users to (a) see what other humans have gathered by-hand from all places on the web, and have shared with the PreFound.com community and (b) gives these human users a technology which allows them to easily and efficiently gather and tag this information, then share it with the PreFound.com community if desired. After all, communities of knowledgeable, interested people can identify relevant sites with greater accuracy than a search engine, even ones with a complicated search algorithms like Google. Plus, you can leverage the work already done by others and build on that base rather than repeat it. In this way, we provide a platform that allows users to search what has already been found on the web! Pre-Found! Think of it as the ultimate Search Blog Site or Wiki-search. Also, think of it as the ultimate Search Community site. A place for people of like interests to gather. PreFound.com can cut through the clutter that a typical Google search might return by adding the true human element, the human touch. |
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Kratia : Democratic Search Engine
http://www.kratia.com/ Kratia : The First Democratic Search Engine The idea is simple: to make a democratic search engine, in which the order of the results are democratically elected by the users. By voting in the results, thus giving us feedback about the ones you like and don't like, we can maintain a better listing and get rid of those spam-filled, illegal, and poor quality websites. web 2.0 |
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Search Google Using Chinese
http://www.pzlabs.com/ime4google/ Search Google Using Chinese A novel and easy way to search Google using Chinese characters ... an excellent online resource for teaching the reading of Chinese (Mandarin) and to build up a Chinese vocabulary. |
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The Flamenco Search Interface Project
http://flamenco.sims.berkeley.edu/index.html The Flamenco Search Interface Project The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property of the interface is the explicit exposure of category metadata, to guide the user toward possible choices, and to organize the results of keyword searches. FLAMENCO stands for FLexible information Access using MEtadata in Novel COmbinations. This research is supported by a CAREER grant awarded to Prof. Marti Hearst from the National Science Foundation |
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Accoona: A Google Alternative?
http://www.accoona.com/ Accoona: A Google Alternative? Founded in February 2004, Accoona announced its official introduction on March 8, 2006. The China Daily Information Company (CDIC), which describes itself as an official Chinese government agency, and its Web site, ChinaDaily.com.cn, hold a significant equity stake in Accoona Corp. Accoona.com is a search engine with interactive tools that provides users with better web, business and news results; powered by proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology. The name Accoona is derived from the Swahili phrase, Hakuna Matata, which means ?on? worry be happy.?&image1.x=60 |
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Retrievr : Visual Search
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/ Retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. In my experience, the results are usually fairly good, sometimes even stunning - considering the artistic sophistication most of us are able to come up with (gallery forthcoming); and in the cases they're not so stellar, they are at least entertaining ;-) But clearly, the approach has its limits. One thing to keep in mind is that retrievr doesn't do object/face/text recognition of any kind, so if you're drawing an outline sketch of a chair, it almost certainly won't get you one back (except your index only contains images of chairs). The same holds for corporate logos, icons &c. |
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Filangy (web 2.0 search application)
http://www.filangy.com/ Filangy is an exciting new concept in search that caters to the user's specific searching needs and provides results that are needed Filangy takes a new route to search offering users the power of the web, coupled with individualized criteria. Filangy lets you, the user, enhance the power of your search in the following ways: - Providing content that matters to you by leveraging "active" content, content which is current and relevant to your interests - Leveraging search results that you may have viewed in the past - Predicting your responses - Collaborating and extending your search interests with those of your friends & colleagues To make the personalization effective, you don't have to do anything special other than installing the Filangy Toolbar. In addition, when you WebMark pages, our personalization algorithm pays special attention to those pages and gives them a higher score. |
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The Deep Web | The Invisible Web
http://fno.org/feb06/deep.html The Deep Web | The Invisible Web How many of the teachers and the students in a school know about the Deep Web? A good place to begin an awareness campaign would be a staff meeting. It takes just 5-10 minutes to ...... |
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ScoopGO
http://scoopgo.com/ ScoopGO! lets you create "Scoops": search engines which search through feeds you choose ScoopGO brings you only new and reliable results. No spam. No old news. Once you have created your own Scoops, they will appear in the dropdown. |
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Surf Tail
http://www.surftail.com/ Surf Tail makes it easier to find what you want on the web by following those who have gone before you. The tails of surfers are updated in real time so you can see exactly what blogs or sites are currently related to the one you're reading and as more people follow the link it reinforces and maintains it. As surfers find their way around Surf Tail enabled websites they leave a trail that you can follow. Just look for the Surf Tail box on a website and you can see how many other people have been looking at the same site and what other sites they have just been looking at, the more visitors that have gone to the related site, the higher it is in the list. |
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Jookster
http://www.jookster.com/ Jookster Jookster is a powerful search engine that ranks results based on sites you and your network finds of value. With Jookster, you are able to search the web and find relevant results based on jooked sites by you and your network of friends. In return when you see a great site, you can jook and instantly share it with your network. web 2.0 |
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Swicki
http://swicki.eurekster.com/ A swicki is a natural extension of personal publishing on the web. Just as you can create a webpage, blog, or podcast, now you can publish a community powered search engine, tailored to produce only the targeted search results that you and your community want! A swicki shows a buzz cloud of what is hot in your community and makes it easy to find the best content, news and info on the web. The search results from the swicki you create are much more focused than a general search engine and they will continue to learn and adapt, anonymously and automatically, based on the search behavior of your community. |
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Searching with Success
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/websearching/ Searching with Success Searching with Success is an interactive tutorial designed to teach students how to better approach searching the web for information. The tutorial also provides an introduction to the difference between the ?urface web?and the ?eep web?br> Takes about 10 minutes ... recommended |
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Finding Information on the Internet - Search engine basics
http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/english/trainers_topics.shtml Finding Information on the Internet - Search engine basics .. free course materials | ITrain Effective Internet Searching | Searching the Internet | Introduction to Using the Internet for Librarians | |
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Finding stuff at MSN : Getting answers
http://tinyurl.com/98bhu Finding stuff at MSN : Getting answers Many predefined searches provide immediate, useful answers to everyday questions or topics of interest. You can also find answers to many types of questions by typing your question in the search box and then clicking Search. |
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Search By Drawing
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060103-180848 Search By Drawing First discovered by Tara (and also blogged by Barry, Philipp, and John) is an experimental search tool called retrievr that allows the user to find related Flickr images by drawing a sketch. Barry writes that it doesn't work too well while Philipp is more postitive. Tara notes it works well for browsing. Experimental work in this are has been going on at Purdue University for several years. Here are a few related links, papers, and a small demo. |
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Wink : search for Tags
http://www.wink.com/ Warning: This isn't your Dad's search engine... Wink lets you search across the Tagosphere. If you're using services like Digg, Furl, Slashdot, or Yahoo! MyWeb, this is your search engine. Find the latest links that people like you think are great. |
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ixquick .. meta seach engine
http://www.ixquick.com/ ixquick .. meta seach engine Ixquick is a metasearch engine: when you search Ixquick, you are searching many popular search engines at the same time. Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine covers. An Ixquick result is awarded one star () for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search. So a five star () result means that five search engines agreed on the result. This is significant because search engines choose results in different ways, and each approach works well in some cases and poorly in others. A result with many stars was chosen for many different reasons, and is a consensus choice of many search engines. Search in any of 18 languages - even Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In each language, Ixquick metasearches local and international search engines so you'll find exactly what you're searching for. |
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How Do Search Engines Handle Chinese Queries
http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n3/a17.html How Do Search Engines Handle Chinese Queries? This article explores the characteristics of the Chinese language and how queries in this language are handled by different search engines. Queries were entered in two major search engines (Google and AlltheWeb) and two search engines developed for Chinese (Sohu and Baidu). Criteria such as handling word segmentation, number of retrieved documents, and correct display and identification of Chinese characters were used to examine how the search engines handled the queries. The results showed that the performance of the two major search engines was not on a par with that of the search engines developed for Chinese. |
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SearchEngineWatch : Podcast
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/podcast.html SearchEngineWatch : Podcast Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines. |
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A Tutorial on Searching the Internet
http://www.ex.ac.uk/stloyes/search.htm A Tutorial on Searching the Internet The internet is a vast, rich and readily available source of knowledge for academic research and responding to personal quests for information. However, it has some drawbacks ... : there are trillions of pages - how do you select just what you want? : it is a self-publishing medium - how do you evaluate content and find the worthwhile sites? |
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Rollyo : create a 'Searchroll
http://www.rollyo.com/ Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Relevant. Reliable. Rollyo. Your searchroll is a collection of the sites you trust and find useful. It's a personal search engine you create to provide relevant results from a hand selected list of reliable sites. You can make as many searchrolls as you want. Just enter the sites you want to search and you'll be off and rolling. |
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How good an Internet Ranger are you?
http://www.internetrangers.co.uk/challenges.html How good an Internet Ranger are you? 5 guides for you to work through with your new 'pupils' (your Gran, your Mum, your Dad or anyone you are helping to get online). The guides provide simple step-by-step instructions to mastering the basic skills needed for happy surfing. Surfing the Internet | Using email | Using a search engine | |
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PowerPoint review of search skills
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/searchskills.ppt PowerPoint review of search skills (large file) |
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The Boolean Machine
http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean/ The Boolean Machine ... simple online interactive diagram that explanes AND OR NOT |
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Boolean Searching powerpoint
http://www.marinette.k12.wi.us/ms/booleanweb.pps Boolean Searching powerpoint ... large file will take some time to display/download. |
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Search Strategy Planner
http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/shreve/Search%20Strategy%20Planner.doc Search Strategy Planner |
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