Wednesday, April 18, 2007

More Cool Search Engines

1. Simply Google
Excellent overview site of all of Googles Features, Download and Blogs
http://www.usabilityviews.com/simply_google.htm

2. AskX.com
New Interface for Ask.com
Good Clustering
Highlights Wikipedia
Images, news items, blogs, etc.
http://www.ask.com/?ax=5
http://www.AskX.com

3. Search The Web 2.0
Narrows search by popular or obscure terms (long tail)
Overlay on Google search engine.
http://www.searchtheweb2.com/

4. Google Search History
Limit your search to what you've searched before.
http://www.google.com/searchhistory

5. Q&A Services
answers.yahoo.com
qna.live.com
askville.ask.com
linkedin.com/answers

6. Quick Answers feature
Ask.com's smart Answers
Google's OneBox
Yahoo's Shortcuts
MSN's Instant Answers

7.Squidoo
Hybrid of a webpage, interactive poll, Flickr-like photos, notes from readers, and a blog
A great way to share resources with colleagues.
http://www.squidoo.com/

8. Customized search Engines
Rollyo.com
Yahoo Search Builder
Google Coop
Live.com's Macros
Gigablast's Custom Topic Search.

9. Yahoo's search subscriptions
Search Fee based resources without the fee
If you like what you see, then you can pay.

10. Kosmix.com **
Vertical Search Engine
Excellent Clustering
http://www.kosmix.com/

11. NationMaster.com
Great source for National Statistics
http://www.nationmaster.com/

12. Yahoo's Mindset Feature
Great way to limit search using a slider bar
http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/

13. MSN's synonym-suggestion tool
snurl.com/zqyd

14. MSN misspelling tool
snurl.com/zqyl

15. 37signals.com
Great Collaborative resource
http://37signals.com/

16. Ask Maps
Both Driving and Walking directions
maps.ask.com

17. Exalead's NEAR/n operator
Returns results on queries for keywords that are 'near' to other keywords
EG. (solar or sun) NEAR/3 power
This will return results based on Solar power
http://www.exalead.com/search

18. Live Academic search
Endlessly Scrolls results!
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?scope=academic&q=

19. Compare Search Engines
http://comparesearchengines.dogpile.com/
http://www.jux2.com/
http://ranking.thumbshots.com/
http://twingine.com/
http://yahoogooglemsn.com/

20. TouchGraph
Finds relationships among URL's
Data visualization
Very Cool site
http://www.touchgraph.com/

21. Gigblast
http://www.gigablast.com/

22. Snap Search
Very good visualization
Lets you Preview a page without leaving your site
Very Cool
http://www.snap.com/

23 GooFresh
Limits Google searches to Recently Added pages
http://www.researchbuzz.org/2003/09/goofresh.shtml

24. SearchMash
Very cool search engine because results can be sorted by webpage, images, Blogs, videos, and Wikipedia
http://www.searchmash.com/

25. Google's Topic Search
Also allows you to contribute to the search engine
http://www.google.com/coop/topics/?show=all

26. PageBull
Entirely Graphical
Very cool visually
http://www.pagebull.com/